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I'm struggling with writing a scene in my middle-grade book where my MC deals with his super embarrassing dad. My main difficulty was that I can't remember a single time my parents embarrassed me? So I think I need to collect some stories about embarrassing parents for me to draw on.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago

He would scream AFLAC in public randomly and often.

[–] Deyis@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He tried to kill me at a family gathering, that was pretty embarrassing.

[–] Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Deyis@beehaw.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

Beat me up because I didn't do well at a sports game, then went to go get a knife. This was all in front of his side of the family who did nothing. I managed to sneak away and run the two miles to my maternal grandparents house.

Pretty cringe of him imo.

[–] its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

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