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What do your parents do for a living?

Tokyo Slim

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My dad sells building materials to Japan. Makes around $50k

My mom gives dying people sponge-baths part time for minimum wage. Makes around $12k

They are divorced.
 

IUtoSLU

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Mom - professional figure skater
Dad - professional figure skater
Step-dad - professional figure skater
 

MetroStyles

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Originally Posted by IUtoSLU
Mom - professional figure skater
Dad - professional figure skater
Step-dad - professional figure skater


I lolled.
 

IUtoSLU

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Originally Posted by MetroStyles
I lolled.

I thought you would. Yours wasn't bad either.
 

LabelKing

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My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.

My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.
 

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Originally Posted by LabelKing
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery.

My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet.


****, I wanted to post this
 

globetrotter

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mom, teacher who also owned an antique store
dad, industrial engineer

neither of them graduated college, even though both careers really really required a college degree, so neither did very well
 

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Originally Posted by oneeightyseven
stepdad is the president of a union and mom is a manager of a pension fund.
Union strong!
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MrG

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My father was a gambler down in Georgia. He wound up on the wrong end of a gun.

My mother was a tailor. She sewed my new blue jeans.
 

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Father: In Poland, retired high rank army officer with PHD degree. In Canada, reputable millwright in food industry. He also designs and builds doughnut machines, belt conveyors, etc...

Mother: unemployed accoutnant
 

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Father: Engineer
Mother: Economic Development in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos ( = lots of traveling)
 

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Both my parents are engineers. Highly educated prostitutes, the both of 'em.
 

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Dad is retired lawyer/diplomat/Nigerian govt civil servant. Mom is U.S. civil servant.
 

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Dad works at big pharma.
Mom is a retired synthetic chemist.
 

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