People Share Fond Childhood Memories When Their Dad Made Them Promise To ‘Never Tell Mom’

The Dad Who Loved To Eat Out

“When I was a kid, my dad regularly sabotaged our stove so that we would be ‘forced’ to go out to eat at a restaurant. We loved Pizza Inn, and my mom always nagged that we needed to ‘eat something green’. My mom knew squat about anything electrical, mechanical, etc.

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Photo Credit: Brandon Cormier / Unsplash

“Sometimes Dad flipped the switch in the circuit box or anything else he could think of to make the stove non-functional. To this day, my mom still thinks the stove we had in the ’90s was flaky and intermittently faulty before we got a new one when I was in high school. By that time, family dinners were a no-go anyway due to everyone’s schedules, so we no longer had to deal with the tampering of the kitchen.” —Reddit