Every parent has a past. They just don’t want *you* to know about it.

Every parent has a past.
They just don’t want you to know about it.

One minute it’s “don’t do that, it’s disrespectful,”
the next minute you find out they were doing the exact same thing, just with fewer witnesses and worse fashion.

Parents love rules. Curfews. Respect.
And the classic line: “When I was your age, I never did that.”

Which is interesting, because when they were our age, there were no screenshots, no voice notes, no timestamps, and definitely no group chats keeping receipts.

They say: “Don’t be on your phone all day.”
But somehow know every Facebook rumor before it even trends.

They say: “You’re too young to date.”
Then casually mention how they met your other parent at 16 behind a school block.

They say: “We didn’t disrespect adults like this.”
Yet still argue with cashiers, pastors, teachers, and traffic officers like it’s a competitive sport.

This isn’t about hating parents.
It’s about noticing the pattern.

Rules are often written by people who already broke them and survived.

Maybe that’s not hypocrisy.
Maybe it’s fear.
Fear that you’ll make the same mistakes…
and enjoy them a little too much.

So when parents say “Do as I say, not as I did”,
what they really mean is:

“I did it, learned the hard way, and I don’t know how to explain that without sounding unfair.”

Still unfair.
Still funny.
Still very meme-able.