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“My parents would buy this hideous-smelling flea poison at the vet for our Rottweiler. It had to be diluted with water, I guess. My mother whipped up a gallon of this concoction in an old milk gallon. It was a white liquid. She put it in the refrigerator, in the milk gallon. She did not mark the container in any way in order to differentiate it from an ordinary gallon of milk. Now, I ate cereal every morning for breakfast. I am guessing you can figure out easily what happened next, but unbelievably, my mother did not foresee that I would pour this flea poison on my cereal and eat it. I was told that I was pretty silly, because it has a smell!”
“Didn’t I notice the smell? Boy, what a dumb kid! She sent me off to day camp with a box of Tic Tacs to help mellow the terrible aftertaste in my mouth. I think of this often. It always seemed very fucked up, even more so now that I am a parent. Luckily, I only took one bite! I can still taste it.”
—TrashPanda76
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/genx-share-bad-parenting-boomers-did
