# S/he Did What? Ways Your Family Still Shocks You **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459 "2009-03-31T16:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459/81 "2009-04-04T19:56:00Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > OK, I’m shocked already… Well, he’s gay… My mother insisted in coming to the gyne with me when I was 30. She cried for days over my being able to get checked up “from the front.” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459/82 "2009-04-04T20:11:57Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > being able to get checked up “from the front.” I hate to keep asking this question, but do I even _want_ to know? ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459/83 "2009-04-04T21:15:40Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I hate to keep asking this question, but do I even _want_ to know? I’m thinking it’s a euphemism for the gynecological checkup, but… most women I know tend to start going to one in their late teens, for birth control pill prescriptions. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459/84 "2009-04-05T15:49:02Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > I talk to my mother each night, usually I could not handle this. The frequency and nature of calls from my mother were annoying as it is. I thank god for caller id. It was getting particularly annoying this year, both with the frequency and the nature of the calls, so I got fed up and just refused to pick up for her for two weeks. The few actually important tidbits of info I passed on to her through my brother. I finally got back in touch with her, and she was more pleasant, but after the third call I got that day I flipped out and said “please no more thousand calls a day!” She got the hint and has been mostly better behaved since. When I was a kid, my parents were separated so I would stay at my father’s house every other weekend. My Dad is a chain smoker and had at that time about 12 cats. Needless to say, every weekend I spent with him my eyes and nose would run constantly, my eyes would itch, I would sneeze and sniffle. A few years after I graduated high school and was no longer staying weekend with him he made a comment to the effect of “you sure got colds a lot as a kid”. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459/85 "2009-04-06T03:17:07Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Do I even _want_ to know? Lol, [Bear (gay culture) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_community) , and picture us all in underwear. But you might not want to 😉 And if it’s surprising to you to hear about a 22-year-old calling Mom each night, look at what happens when I don’t! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459/86 "2009-04-06T07:42:19Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > And if it’s surprising to you to hear about a 22-year-old calling Mom each night, look at what happens when I don’t! No, its because you still do. Its time to start weening her. Cut it back to every other day or something. Time to cut the cord. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459/87 "2009-04-06T11:25:01Z")
> [@chaoticbear](#): > > Lol, [Bear (gay culture) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_community) , and picture us all in underwear. But you might not want to 😉 That’s not so bad; that’s pretty much what I had come up with on my own. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-he-did-what-ways-your-family-still-shocks-you/491459.md?page=4)