Parents just don't understand!

[justjedd]

Ok. I know a lot of you will think this post is silly, but no one is making you reply.

I'm almost 21.. and yes, I live at home. It's a problem I will have to confront head on someday.. ANYWAYS..

This morning I awoke to an odd letter on the table. I took my toothpaste with me to my girls the other day and when I came home, I left my bag out. So this morning, my moms goes diggin thru my bag lookin for the toothpaste and finds my mask, tips and paint. Oops.

My mom is a pretty hip lady. I told her the truth (that I paint a lot of legal and semi-legal (read: wallofames) spots.. I also told her that was ALL I do (a lil white lie). I don't think she'd be as cool to understand about painting fr8s or highways or anything like that.

So what I'm wondering is : Do any of you homebodies have stories to share? How many of you (that live at home or not) do yer parents know that you paint? To what degree do they know? Do any of yer parents know that you bomb? I had a friend once who was only 17 and his dad would be straight up "You gonna be bombing the 5 (interstate) tonight? I'll be looking for that tomorrow!" but he was totally serious and totally cool about it!

I don't know.. I'm bored.
-> Jedd

[12345]

i too live at home and paint. my mother kicked me out of the house for painting, something that im too embaressed to tell my friends about. so i moved in with my father. he sees the paint and just doesnt ask questions, but i often wonder if he just doesnt connect the dots or doesnt give a fuck.
either way im always cautious about my hobby at home.

[usedtolove]

moms knows..we look for freights spots on occasion...caps are everywhere..paint..videos..i show her my new work and give her a big hug and i love you before going to paint trains..hehe life is grand

[Are2]

my parents know and they have been pretty supportive, especially after seeing me stick with it for years...and manage to stay out of any trouble

(actually, they just don't know about the trouble..which i believe kept their outlook positive..)

plus, dad chose a tag one time, and has given some great ideas..
mom gave me some advice about beef..hahaa..
it wasn't too good

honesty is a good thing..altho, i know not all parents are as open minded as mine.

i would never in a million years call them from jail, especially not to look for help.

but i will show them flicks of pieces an freights..i try to play down the bombing aspect of it..i never hit their neighborhood..even when i lived with them.
i think the happy mother's day piece i did my second year out helped..

[imported_CATS]

Mymoms supports me, I havea legal wall in her backyard where my crew and I practice. She knows I do Illegal stuff but she supporst me. :cool:

[justjedd]

Yea.. that was the wierdest thing. My mom HAD to know something.. I painted plywood canvases in the backyard! I think she was in denial.

[KARD like WOE]

you kow how some people build walls in their backyard or whatevr but im almost 20 and for about 2 years now my mah dukes lets me write on my house... funny huh well its the truth cuase i got a deck and a little padio under the deck and thats where i practice... mom knows the deal... she just says next time you get caugth call your friends to get you out.

[sectorTVA]

when they thought i was just painting legally they were cool and whatnot...after we moved, they knew i didnt know any writers up here, and they know there arent any legal places to paint in town. when they discovered the stockpile of paint in my trunk after a car accident they got all psycho...dad understands it, i explained why i do it to him, and how long ive been doing it for, and he reccommended i pick up a different hobby/lifestyle, but said he couldnt stop what i really wanted to do. thats weird, hes a recovering alcohlic, and hes only really been a dad for 4 years...when he was drinking he could give a fuck less about what i do. now hes actually concerned..mom got really upset and depressed and is in denial right now...she picked up smoking again and said she would quit again as soon as i quit graffiti...i think its because she thinks shes a failure since my sister dropped out of college and moved out, and now that im in college she doesnt want to see me fuck up...its starting to get irritating, shes always finding a way to incorporate the subject of me quitting graffiti into any conversation we have...but hey, what are parents for, i love em both for caring about me...ive met some unfortunate people whose parents arent there for them.

[GAMBL-1]

fuck parents taht try and pull bullshit .. and fuck punks that let it slide...

[Funk~This]

haha.. my mom knows for sure buts she really dosent think ido illeagls anmore i tel her i am going out with my boys and taking my paint but hse knows she knows......

[imported_Unit]

Hell nah my parents dont know. My dad would go nuts, but he lives up in NY so it dont matter. Id rather be up there with him instead of in my hicktown but hes a psycho christian so it wouldnt be worth it. I think my mom sorta knows i do it, but she just doesnt wanna make an issue. A few years back when me and my bro used to paint together, wed snatch paint from teh garage and use it all up, and my mom would see us with paint and shit on our hands, i think shes just tryin to leave us alone about it. I finally started up a bit ago, i think she knows I do it. Its kinda hard to keep your backpack from rattlin when ya hit speed bumps. =. Everytime were bout to hit speed bumps i just start talkin loud and shit. lolol :D

[IntangibleFame]

I told me mom about me painting, she told me to get out of the house. After talking to her she didnt care as much. She even wanted to get involved. But she tried this thing were she wanted info on it and wanted me to show her stuff, so that maybe she could get into it to, "to be a concerned and caring parent involved in her sons life and activities" I told her that she would get shot if she did it. That ended that thought. Now she all thinks its a gang thing, and im gonna get shot. So I made a compromise that I wouldnt paint till im 18. In return I have no curfew anymore....hahahahaha :) yhea right..I dont think I could stop painting if I wanted too.

[imported_ctrlaltdelete]

well shit, i hate most of you kids that posted in here simply because im jealous. why cant i have dope parents like you guys? i was hella sneeky for 4 years (starting when i was 12) then i screwed up some time ago. i left my bag outside the door when i was coming back home. i was going to bring it in later, but i forgot and fell asleep. my parents found it and questioned me. im surprised they hadnt known before this. its not like they had no clue what graff is. my brother was deep into it. he had gotten beat up by mexicans at a wall so my parents thought graffiti was evil. they tried to get him to stop by letting him paint our garage. but that gets tired. his mistake was that he left shit around. he has sketches on the phone book, tags on my keyboard, and just a whole lot of other shit. they know what he writes, if they see it he gets yelled at, its funny. but i never left my shit hanging out. so they had no clue. but i had posters on my wall. shirts with pieces on them. paint on my fingers. clanking in my bag. late nights with bad kids. all the signs. but yeah, they found my cans and questioned me. they tried some new tactic on me where they try to make me feel bad for them. it was pathetic. but interesting. they arnt dumb parents, im sure that theyve pieced most of it together, except for what i write, im hella careful. i just hope they dont know who i write with. i need to give my friends code names now. for talking on the phone and shit. im trying to make them think it was just a phase.

but as for you kids that mix paint with your pops and stake out spots with momma, that makes me sick. damn bonding and shit. i know one kid whose parents never ask where hes going, dont give a shit about him. he says he writes but he is up nowhere. if my parents were like that, you can guarantee i would be king of the city.

i think its funny that jedd lives with his parents and hes 21.

[justjedd]

i think its funny that jedd lives with his parents and hes 21.

Yea.. yer not the only one! Oh.. and I'm not 21 til the 26th so :P

*Edited for retardation*

[ervsay-australia]

my parents know and dont care, i tag all sortsa shit at home, i leave sketches out (they go 'ooh thats a good one' and shit) i ask them for money for paint and textas and stuff, they know what i tag and they go 'when did you do that?' and im like 'uhhh last night' and there like 'werent you at ******?' and im like 'shit', this cunt says he saw me painting at a school and he stalked me and then confronted me when my dad showed up my dad was like 'did you do it' (i did) then he asked if the guy saw me (which he couldnt have) then that was the end, all they hassle me about is getting a job, pffft fuck that

[Pistol]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by justjedd
[B]

Yea.. yer not the only one! Oh.. and I'm not 21 til the 26th so :P

Fuck it! Im 21 going on 22 in November with no immediate plans of movin out. I sometimes feel like that guy from Mallrats.

[imported_EyEdEa]

i told my dad strait up and he was cool with it.
of course i told him i only paint legal spots.

[imported_backcountrywriter]

My boy used to hide shis paint in a bush in his yard. One day his little sister found it and brought it too his mom. She was mad, but she still lets him write as long as he doesn't get caught.
Just thought i share

[Sun Dialect]

Me and My homie went bombing with my homies mom. She drove us around and staked out spots. Shit was cool.

[Remy Martin]

my friends mom took us out a couple times.

hahhahahaha...i fuck with my parents about it. a long time ago my mom took me out shopping to get paint.
now im all mature or somthing, so it kind of shocks em when they call and they are like, so what have you been up to, and im like, me and my friend spent all night the other week running around painting the inside of subway tunnels.
i think they are in denial.

[24HOURS]

Man. Im an 18 yr old college student. My dads an cop, and he knows i write on walls. So does my mom. They didn't trip for awhile. Cause i have pics and posters hanging up in my room. so they knew the deal. my mom knew what i wrote. so i had to change because some other writer tried jumping me at 7 in the mourning, but i hit him wit my car. then he runs to my mom, and tell him what i wrote, what crew i was in. everythig about my graff life lol.
this kid was weird. so i changed my name. so i was rockin hard wit my new name. then i got drunk at my sisters graduation party. and they were video taping the party. One of her friends, and I started telling the camera what wrote lol. so my mom knew. but

no one cared for awhile. i have my cans behind my bunk bed. she knew were they were. acouple adays ago. like tuesday, i come home from schoo, and look behind my bed and my cans are missing. i was about to snap. but i was like, she nowsim gonna buy more. so fck it. its on her. today she was in the shower, so i went to the garbage can to look and they were in there. so when she dips out the house,im gonna snatch them. and this time im gonna hide them above my bed, were the ceiling can move. FOR like month she knew i had cans and markers and pictures. but all of a sudden she just took. i wanna ask her why? but i dont' wanna bring up this shit to them.

o well, at least i found my stash. haha its all love.
and i always got the same lecture from my mom
"DON'T GET CAUGHT, IF YOU GET CAUGHT DON'T COMING RUNNING TO ME OR CALLING ME, IM NOT GETTING U OUT"

everytime i went out. haha thats some ish.
i know this sounds lame and shit. but i just wanted to post what i have to go threw and shit.

PEACE

[imported_NOVAGIRL]

Originally posted by justjedd


Yea.. yer not the only one! Oh.. and I'm not 21 til the 26th so :p

*Edited for retardation*

awww geez. you live at home and your gonna be 22 and it's okay. i think i love you...happy birthday.

now i am the big twothree and been out of the rents house since 18 so they have not a clue. i feel for all that have to live with your parents and maintain the disease secretively.

why am i attracked to men that live at their parents? maybe it's the free food and laundry access. ima user.........

[justjedd]

..maybe it's the free food and laundry access. ima user.

EXACTLY! The cost of living up here is ginormous..

[24HOURS]

SHIT I GOT MY CANS. I PUT THEM IN THIS DOPE SPOT ABOVE MY BED
SO THERE SAFE AND SOUND.

THEY HAD AUNTS AND SHIT CRAWLING ON THEM, NASTY

BUT ITS ALL GOOD NOW..

24HOURS

PEACE DOPE POST

[Pistol]

Originally posted by justjedd


EXACTLY! The cost of living up here is ginormous..
Did anyone here read the reports on the most expensive places to live. They took into account spending like 30% of your pay on housing and the rest for food travel and other expenses. San Francisco was the most expensive where one needed to make at least 35.00$ an hour to be able to survive in some shithole in the crack district. Los Angeles (where I live) one needed to make like 18-20 bones an hour. So till I finish college I guess I'm stuck.

[serpent of the light]

my rents put my sketches to a piece a few years ago. they didnt shout on me, but if they figure it again, they will. now i'm far more careful about who sees any part of my sketchbook
xxx303

[imported_suburbian bum]

My parents dont know anything, ive got cans under my bed, and sketch books all over. One time i left a bunch of caps in one of my pockets, my dad ran it trough the drier and they all fell out, so he comes up to me and is like whats this? Im like, hmm looks like a spray paint cap to me dad. Hes like then why did i find a bunch of them in your pocket? Im like" OOH yeah those... Me and my freind found a whole big pile of them on the bike path, you know people drop weird stuff" Then he told me they were clogging the drier and then he left.

[-Rage-]

My mom knows...but she when she tries to talk me out of doing it, I remind her that I'm at least I'm not out running around doing drugs. Having a teacher for a parent sucks.

[ogrBDC]

my mom definately has known about my graffiti for the past 2 years, but i dont know if my mom knows im active anymore, she knows my word and sees my stuff but i tell her its from last winter, she hates what i do. thinks its ugly(all she has seen on her own iare bombs) and is a waste of time.
she keeps bugging me about taking the paint of my shelf and putting it in storage or something but i tell her i need it there...
my real mistake was showing her my shit in the first place, letting her see my word.
she likes peices, but she also likes the law...

[boogie hands]

"mosts of these emcees are very soft..."

[imported_MestOne]

My mom always see's me sketchin shit and she thinks its cool when i do characters...but when she found 15 markers that were fat as shit i just said i like to color with them...i dunno how it worked but i can't lie forever and i have been arested once. So i am sure she knows but i know she wont understand.....i think my sis knows but she is cool abuot it.

and i dont know how they couldnt believe i do it...i look at sites, take flicks, drawl, come home with a lil paint on my hands, have a mask (which they have not found)...but one day when i am like 20 ill tell.

[sieb]

The first time I got caught, she was hella angry, then she found out how big of a dick the graffiti detective was, the 2nd time she was just like hella angry so she kicked me out and I live don the ave in seattle fo r 2 weeks, then I came home and she been hella cool ever since, buying me paint, let me build a wall, she knows I bomb and shes cool with that, she doesnt know what I write. my moms cool but sometimes shell hell stress out

[Raw fish]

Im damn near 22, and I still live with my parents, and they charge me rent, and give me shit about coming home late all the time. The biggest problem is this - my car is a hatchback, and for some reason, my parents always want to put stuff in it... I successfully avoided that for a while, but had to break down and take all my paint out so I could use the trunk... so I waited until I was the only one home, and moved all of my paint into my room - Im talking like 250 cans plus 4 gallons etc etc etc. I had all the paint in boxes so it wasnt obvious what it was - but moms found it anyway - you cant keep all that paint in your closet - thats dangerous she tells me - so eventually her and my dad sat me down and asked about the paint - i told them it was for legals... they accepted the answer, but I dont think they really believe me... oh well...

yeah I also failed out of college - twice I just really didnt want to be there
I have a shitty job, and as far as my parents can tell, no hobbies. They are really puzzled by me these days to say the least... Ill tell them whats going on after I move out.

luckily they havent found the tattoos Ive been hiding...

[imported_FROSTY]

I think once you get to a certain point and your still living with your parents there bound to know. When they see you sketching it in your books, see you writing it on your bedroom wall, when its all over your homework, theres just no way out. i think my parents kinda know cauz they have found paint and im alwayse going out at 2 in the mornin and shit. I think most parents except it because it is an form of art and as long as you are succeeding in somehthing its all good.

but if your parents are fukin berzerk hide that shit in the clozet!
:king:

[MisPantalonesEstaEnfuega]

My parents found my bag and were more concerned with the vodka then the paint. Then when that all dyed down. "Umm...Why do you have all this spraypaint? What is this mask for? Why gloves? ARE YOU HUFFING SPRAY PAINT?" "No, the paint is so I can paint on walls, the gloves soI don't get paint on my hands, and the mask so I don't breathe the paitn in, it's bad for your lungs." "But you smoke why do you care?" "nevermind that."

Then one day dad comes to me and says "hey what do you paint?" "Umm...My name. Anything that happens to come to mind, it depends." "How long have you been doing this?" "Close to 3 years now..." "Really? You stuck with something that long? wow."

then he took me out to buy paint and he wanted me to take him to every place I have painted. My dad is a good guy.

I got boxes of paint for my birthday.

[seven.13]

Some people have pretty cool parents on here....

My dad knows...He used to believe me when I said i only did legals

Now just gives me this look like 'who are you kidding'
Hes also gotten used to waking up to his house full of dirty paint covered writers
raiding the fridge or passed out on the floor

Once when i was 12.... he made me carry out 2 trashbags full of cans to the trashcan down the street ( i think it was something like 25 cans?) and throw them away

Luckily it was almost trash collection day so the thing was pretty much full ad they stayed on the top- i was able to rescue them then next morning.
A neighbor walked by as i was struggling to keep the lid open, grab the bags and not fall into the bottomless pit that is the Italian trashcan...heh

[seeking]

my mom goes through my discontinued collection with me, checking out cans getting more excited than i do 'oh honey, you got a paper lable pry top, wow".... she gets me paint in my stocking each year, its cute.

[krs702]

Originally posted by suburbian bum
My parents dont know anything, ive got cans under my bed, and sketch books all over. One time i left a bunch of caps in one of my pockets, my dad ran it trough the drier and they all fell out, so he comes up to me and is like whats this? Im like, hmm looks like a spray paint cap to me dad. Hes like then why did i find a bunch of them in your pocket? Im like" OOH yeah those... Me and my freind found a whole big pile of them on the bike path, you know people drop weird stuff" Then he told me they were clogging the drier and then he left.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH



my mom is down with it.. she just says dont concentrate on just graffiti.. concentrate on arty stuff... which i do.. i guess with her being an artist for a long time.. is a reason why she understands.. i think alot has to come from her life..

my dad knows i do it.. i think.. i get very nervous around him when we pass some type of graffiti on the streets..

i think all of our parents know.. they just don't say anything..

and seeking are you being sarcastic or serious?

[imported_Unit]

Man, people gettin boxes of paint for birthdays, paint in stockings. lucky bastards, my mom would freak if i told her. Maybe i should tell her, i could pull the "Yea at least im not doing drugs though" heh.

[Scientific]

My Mom is cool as shit... She realizes that I am under Priveliged and really talented so she doesn't care.. When i got one of my pieces in a video I bought it and showed it to her she was all amazed and "So Proud of her little Boy" Hah... A while back she bought me 5 cans of icy grape because I told her if I found some I would sell my soul for it so she picked some up in a Boon dock town in oklahoma.. I love my Mom...

To bad my step Dad's an asshole.. he threw away like 20 or 25 cans a while back and my mom tore into his ass and got my paint back for me...
Shit I'm damn near 20 I have to move out soon.........i should take my mom with me...

[justjedd]

ARE YOU HUFFING SPRAY PAINT?

Yea, my mom tried that same shit on me when she found a Magnum44 leftover from my taggin days.

[imported_iphs]

damn i thought i was one of the few with that issue....
they definitely do not understand...
they just dont get it.. they throw the whole deal
if you love us. stop...
yeah lots of love. but no.
now i just run around lying and lying and lying...

try getting up while being daddy's little girl...and the only one for that matter.

[bigguy]

magnum 44s make good torches when you need a nice fire...

[The Helacious Dr. Dazzle]

Either my parents know and don't care, or they are a lot stupider than I thought.

[imported_iSLEEPwithMIDGETS]

my mom has to know...i always sho her sketches and shit and point out shit my friends do to her...i dont think sh cares she just doesnt want me to tell her im doing...because i be painting up my garage and shit and if i show her nice sketches and whatever shell buy the paint for me but usually when she does that i just do a simple on the garage and go paint someother shit someother place...and occaisionally i come home with paint on my hands and i just say i been painting at a freinds house and she doesnt even ask questions...so yeah she gotta know...just dont wanna hear it...

[vile2]

man thats cool. I wish my parents were like that. I got to keep my stuff stashed away kuz my mom is nozy as hell. She would kill me, then sit down and want to have a talk. Shit, your guys parents buy you this shit and mine would kill me for even having it, no questions asked.

[dukeofyork]

my parents used to be ok with it..
im not going to say why they arent anymore, but they know im not stopping anytime soon.
my mom came over to my place once (i hadnt been on my own but for maybe 3 months) and i had cleaned up before she came over.
what are those by the couch? she asks.

oops, i thought i had cleaned up...


i had left about 15 cans sitting next to my couch in the living room...
to some that might seem like a lot, like how could i miss that, but considering everything else that i had cleaned up, it isnt much.

[SoCiEtY HaTeS Me]

hmmmph after a year of watching me look trough magazines,visit sites,mix paint,watch me sketch,conventionaly snif paint to pass out and fall asleep,finding dirty caps,comming home rather late at night with hands dirty and smelling like paint...she never thought a thing...she would ask me here and then

"i dont ever want to find you painting on the streets""do you paint on the streets""you know thats bad,wait till i tell your father"

i wouldnt care...one night i went bombing...leaving her alone wiht my stuff...then she found some fotos...some of girl with graff on her...and some pics of a recent tunnel i had done...i was posing infront of the pic...she took them and rip them apart...also took all my graff stuff and ripped it apart...

unfortunatly she thought id stop after that...haha..she got me wrong...i told her ass that she cant stop me...
went the next day to the scrap yard..and bought myself a shit load of stuff..

SHE BROKE MY FUCKEN BLACK BOOK....
:o

[sound]

my parents dont know, they just suspect...when i was younger, i kinda screwed up , they caught on that i was down with graffiti, then moms was in my big brothers room (fucking snoop) and that evening she was like "so is there some graffiti at the park?" i was thinkin "shit" and me an my brother were like "uuhhh, yea there is actually, why?" and she said "you boys did it didn't you?". We laughed and said "nooo". then she told us about how she found my brother's backpack that day, and we were like "yea, so? thats what we keep our paint in. you know we paint in the barn sometimes" She said, "im gonna call the cops"...she was joking, but we never admitted to doing graffiti. (How the hell did she know about the graff at the park anyway?) I went ahead and layed low for a month and changed my name. both my parents would be mad if they found out, they would take my cans and have a long talk and probly ground me.
I'd be in a fair bit of trouble...

[Pone156tfo]

I'm 32 so this doesn't apply to me now. Even though I have to deal with wify now to go out lol.
When I was a teen my parents knew I did it, hell they bought me Subway Art for xmas, it subsequently got viced from me at highschool but that's another story. My parents were strange they liked graff and that I was into it but when things got hot they were mad nervous and kinda stressin me about it. I luckily got to go away to school close to nyce so I could paint a lil something and not have them to deal with all the time cept when I was home for vacations. Then in 91 i took a bad pinch in Manhattan and hadda move back home for the summer an that sucked dick.
They know I still write and can't really say anything about it now that i'm an adult and livin the married life style. My wife tolerates it to a point as long as i'm careful.
Oh well my advice is to try and keep it from your folks as long as humanly possible then if they ask about the cans and masks tell em your doing Murals legally and/or working on Stage Backrounds.

Piece Love & Douche (Douche means shower in French)

[hypochondriac#1]

I have to get two flix of my pieces cos my mum likes to have a copy of them, One time when I was staying over at her house I said,"my friend and I are going to paint the retaining walls on the freeway tonight and she was completely cool about it... :cool:

[-sudz-]

Originally posted by Unit
Its kinda hard to keep your backpack from rattlin when ya hit speed bumps. =. Everytime were bout to hit speed bumps i just start talkin loud and shit. lolol :D

i cough, i make it up that i'm never 100% health wise.. that works too. but i usually don't carry paint when they're around.

[BIG T]

my parents say that i need to stop acting like a little kid... they thought it was cool when i was like 16, or 17 but now at the age of 24 they think im just being silly. but i know they really love it, i even got told by one of their friend how they were bragging about me when they took the train downtown the other week. :D

[dai]

my parents know that i write and what i write. it kinda sucked at first because they would see my shit everywhere, and i'd hear shit about it. my parents find my spraypaint and markers all the time and throw them away or hide them...they stopped doing this when i kept coming home with more cans rattling around in my back pack. i told my mom i was helping a friend paint a mural on his garage wall, and that i do legal walls...and that i paint trains because i think people would rather see art than beat up rusty freight cars. my mom is cool with it, she doesn't ask question and tells me not to get arrested when i go out late nights with my back pack. my dad bitches just for a reason to bitch...but it's not obvious, they know i write. as i look around i've got prismas laying out on the desk, Subway Art is sitting on my scanner, an almost empty can of white krylon is sitting under the coffee table. i got a bag of like 50 some decos sitting around here somewhere. plus all the blackbooks and notebooks strewn across my rooms...haha it'd be hell if the police came to investigate. lol and one more thing, my dad found my respirator and tryed to say i was making a bong out of it! haha i wanna see how that works.

[drutagsalot]

my parents know i do graffiti and there cool about it. when i was makin a mop my mom was like "that colors nice, i think u should use that". my dads not that cool about it but o well to bad for him. my mom just doesnt want me to get into ""trouble"".

for every body that has to hide stuuf, if u hav any ceilings that hav seperate peices, see if u can shove thight stuff up there.

[tmf0]

but as for you kids that mix paint with your pops and stake out spots with momma, that makes me sick. damn bonding and shit. i know one kid whose parents never ask where hes going, dont give a shit about him. he says he writes but he is up nowhere. if my parents were like that, you can guarantee i would be king of the city.


i totaly understand you!
i have to sneak out of the house and only on fridays or saturdays. 9 still go to school and plus, we live far away from the rest of the city. up north well my parents arent that bad, i show them some sketches and i say its says name. i wonder if my friend got busted and my mom would know i was with him, if she would turn me in

[Dr. Dazzle]

I still have to sneak out too. I'm pretty sure my parents know I at least sketch. I came home one day to find my mum showing some sketches to my dad. It was pretty awkward. No bonding though. I don't know what my parents would do if they knew I was actually sneaking out and paainting shit. Maybe they'd be pretty cool. They're all into meditation and yoga and shit.

[Handjob]

Well, I haven't lived at home since I was 18 (I'm now 22) but, earlier this year, I decided to move back home... It was pretty cool considering my Mum moved from Canada to Australia. So I packed up my stuff and moved to the otherside of the world: Perth, Australia. I thought that this was one of the coolest things ever, until I found out that my parents had me on lockdown, as far as graffiti was concerned. So needless to say, I packed up my stuff, again, and now live, once again, in the Frozen North...:D

[REGULATOR]

you kids that have parents that support you SHOULD BE UP ON EVERY BLOCK OF YOUR CITY!!!!! you have no excuse for not being up. i have to resort to lying to my parents, sneaking out of my house and its restricting me from doing what i love. DAMN IF MY PARENTS NEVER CARED THAT I DO GRAFF I WOULD BE OUT EVERY NIGHT ROCKING MY CITY. My friend's parents actually go tell him to hit spots...drive him to spots...and yet he has NO ups....that just makes me sick......take advantage of what you have.....lucky bastards

my parents kno that i am very into graffiti but they are in denial that i actually do it. One day my dad sees a "snipe" tag near the house and hes trying to be kool with me by saying..."yea some dude named snipe did some tagging in the area" but then the next day when he sees a marker in my pocket he tells me "u better not be doing that shit...ill turn you in if you do" WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!! DAMN MORAL PARENTS!!!!!!!

[imported_sm021]

my whole damn family knows me as the "tagger" who gets popped!
At first my dad didn't know what to think about graff? He hates it and hates me...I always have to hide all my paint, keeping it in my trunk, at asics house or tucked in mt closet in a box!! fo real you kids whos parents are chill with you getting over, yo kids are truly blessed...I can't tell you how much I got my ass beat for getting caught by my dad!! I still catch ass whoppn's and I am twenty one........whats up boring get off work and lets paint dork!!:D

[zen]

yeah my parents are in denial. i keep getting caught. the the first time i got the "do you know that its illegal?" oh no. the second time it was "i thought you said you would stop" the third time they got the message that i knew what i was doing and no, i am not that stupid, its not peer pressure.
I think my dad is cool with it. every time i get caught hed be like oh no not again.
any way. now my parents think that i should turn graffiti into a legitamate artform. shite. but they like leagals. thats fun. my mum buys me pantones and copic markers.

Handjob Well, I haven't lived at home since I was 18 (I'm now 22) but, earlier this year, I decided to move back home... It was pretty cool considering my Mum moved from Canada to Australia. So I packed up my stuff and moved to the otherside of the world: Perth, Australia. I thought that this was one of the coolest things ever, until I found out that my parents had me on lockdown, as far as graffiti was concerned. So needless to say, I packed up my stuff, again, and now live, once again, in the Frozen North...

handjobs you should have stayed in perth. bloody brilliant city. no police force. lots of freights and train line from here to woop woop. always warm. oh well

[Sekin]

At first my mom was cool with it she let me paint in the backyard. "So I won't go out on the streets" Then I got popped for having a marker. On the same day that I was supposed to pay the ticket I got bumped for tagging in an alley (remember that Beardo). "You mean you were too busy tagging to pay a ticket?" Then she made me throw away all my paint. Now shes cool with it. We just avoid the topic of illegals and she sees my legals. I just leave my paint out in my room. With my dad at first he ignored it, He would get really awkward everytime we would pass any graffiti and I would look. Then he came down to a legal I was painting the other day and said that he liked it and that it made the wall look a lot better. My mom likes talking to my graff friends. she's like "Oooh I like that thing that you did, keep it up"

Has anyone heard the thirstin howl song "I still live with my mom"

[hbg]

my parents buy me ink but they think it is to refill my paint markes if they ever find my paint ill be dead. i showed my mom some of the murals that were done after the world trade center thing and she thought that was cool. but my dad would kill me

[RichWhiteBoy]

My parents know(kinda hard to keep it a secret when you get caught with a backpack full of cans attemting to sneak out the front door at 2 am)and after several months of grounding and me still doin it they are know sorta cool about it.Dont ASk Dont Tell!!

[seven.13]

You guys need to perfect the gentle art of 'Sneaking Out Of the Home'.

[bodice_ripper]

I have you ALL beat. I quit my job about a week ago because I couldn't stand it anymore.
Yesterday my GRANDMA calls over to see I'm I okay for cash because she would
"hate to think you don't have enough money for your painting sweetheart. Do you have any pictures from last week?"

Of course I didn't take any cash, she is on a pension for chrissakes. But how much does my grandma rock????:cool:

[tue skinny]

my parents buy me markers and shit. but not paint.dont know why.oh and they know i write

[imported_MeaD]

my little story. I have been into graff for about 8 years only painting for 2 1/2 or so. I was always taking flix, getting 2 rolls printed a week (for the last 8 years!!) About 2 years ago my mom found cans in my closet and said "get them out of the house!!!" Time passed and The cans kept coming in. I told them It's something I do and I am not stoping...I told them I would stick to trains and bridges and not city building. I have for the most part. Now I show them stuff I do....
later

[tue skinny]

did they say anything about the trains and birdges /?they were cool with it rite? im bored so im asking these questions

[VANDALICIOU$$$]

I can relate to ur stories so much I've been in trouble for graff a good amount of times in the past which they weren't to happy about my parents for the mostpart think alot of it is cool and I try and lecture them alot that it is art blah blah blah.... and they see why I like
it they don't seem to get the illegal part of it though they think I should "channel my artistic/creativness into a career or sumthing" lol, as opposed to going out and destroying public property which they see as a waste of time with no benefits that just gets u arrested they say "you can't make a living out of tagging things" my mom just doesn't like tags though she thinks their just abunch of illegible scribbles (which is true for the most part) they mostly just don't want me getting in trouble again and I think they kinda know because they see my sketches/tags lying around they just don't say anything they let me buy paint thinking I just use it on the wall of this old shed in the backyard or on peices of wood...hehe!! (what they don't know won't hurt them right?) anyways, whenever they drive through the neighborhood or sumthing and see one of my tags up, they look at me suspiciously like "is that new?" and I'll look at them and be all "uhhh!!! no" or they'll sumtimes ask me before go take the dog out for a walk "do u hav any markers or paint on u?" and I jus say "naaawww". A few weeks ago I was up in my room doing some slap tags when my dad walks in to put away sum folded luandry and stops, looks at my tag and says "what does that say? DEMSR huh?" then he jus looked at me with a grin and said "BUSTED!" lol but most of the time my parents are cool.

[facemeltAAARGH]

my mother knows.





yeah, she doesnt give a shit, the only thing that came out of her mouth when she found out that i write is that "im not paying the bail if you ever get caught, use your fucking salary"

[Scarred Bars]

i don't think my folks gave a fuck about me writing after i found 5 grams of coke in their room...

[wont]

i live with my grandma and if i tell or if she find i do graff she will kill me
i think my dad is cool with because he will let me do anything

[BANZ BLANK]

I'm 24 now & i live alone, but i used to live with my mom. She know & didn't care or didn't understand how far this thing could go. Until she had to pick me up from hospital/jail.
We bomb some city buses & bus drivers here (Argentina) are really hard-core dudes who didn't like some punk kids bombing they're veicles, you know, i got beat the fuck up & trown in jail. Now when she sees me she'll be like "are you taking risks?", "did you get caugt for that?", "are you going to court today?"

She dosen't like me bombing, loves my legal stuff, anyway she (& all my family) knows that i won't stop at this point.






(sorry for the poor english ^_^)

[facemeltAAARGH]

i don't think my folks gave a fuck about me writing after i found 5 grams of coke in their room...

no fucking way


lets be friends, ahahaha

[A Bolster pillow]

my mum found a stash and went skitz, now shes cool with it, picks me up from day spots, takes me to get flicks of shit we've hit at night etc, my dad would rip my balls off, lucky they live apart

[sillychump]

parents take me to stores were i can get pens/stickers. i eventually venture off and just start racking my shit and come back to tell them i couldnt find anything. they kno i write and paint. altough there not too thrilled.

[twinky the kid]

you guys are douchebags.

[Chubbs]

^ ^ hail satan

my mom first found out, and she thought it was cool, and i took her to some dope spots. then when my dad found out, suddenly she hated it. it was really confusing, but i was in no situation to argue. my dad took a garbage bag, and threw out all my shit, but missed a few decos. conveniently my unlce is chief of police for La Mirada. he had a "talk" with me, and basically told me never come to his house again if i continued tagging. that night, i racked slaps and a kiwi. my stash grew twice the size in half the time. and just recently my parents found out i still write, so now im waiting on whats gonna happen.

[xlando]

joice

[5amshift]

My mom knows, she's cool with it pertaining to the art aspect of it.

[яέмίx]

well my parents weren't too happy when they had to pay for all my restitution charges.

[I was born here]

When I first started my mom would get mad. But my parents don't care anymore because I get good grades, do chores, am respectful and stuff like that. So basically kiddies: get good grades, and be an overall good person to your parents so they let you and you graffiti shenanigans slide.

[amongst]

my parents didn't like it when i first started writing, but didn't really care. i guess they figured it was better for me than doing drugs and being lazy and shit. atleast i was expressing myself. but they were both pretty pissed when i got arrested...

[nonamebrandeggs]

There's a Will Smith song that addresses this thread.

[KARE?]

i have a few times where my mom er dad found shit but my best two are....the first time i left a single ny fat(not even used) on my desk one time and that little thing made my mom rip through my entire fucken room flipping out drawers and shit(keep in mind im only 15 so ic ant really stop her) and found like half my shit like kiwis and cvs bingos and some gk and she was like THIS IS NOT NORMAL YOUR A VANDAL!!AHHH and i was like well im not stopping so get used to it and the other time i had left a sexy kiwi in my pocket and i threw my jeans on my bed and went to bed and my mom woke me up the next morning like "why do u have a graffiti weapon in your pocket are u vandalizing things again" and i was like i didnt even use and i think she baught it but w/e thats my dumb stories

[Chubbs]

graffiti weapon? damn, all i got are markers

[SameName]

I want a graffiti weapon! Does it come with attachments?

[SHITFACED!!!!!]

i was forced into graffiti by my parents, they said i couldnt get any cookies untill i bombed the whole hood up

[twinky the kid]

my parents found out that i write,
they thought it was cool and they wanted to try it.
we now constantly bomb/tag all of the industrial areas and rural roads,
we mob hard.

we king shit.

but seriously, you guys are douchbags, still..

[spinabiffita]

when i told my mom i paint.......thats mostly all i remember she hit me pretty hard

[Price250]

i was forced into graffiti by my parents, they said i couldnt get any cookies untill i bombed the whole hood up

I lol'd.

Props just because you made my day.

Your post would be in my signature, but you can't copy and paste on an iPhone. :(

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

My folks think I stopped cuz my ass got caught once (long story, it's dumb). Mom found my cans and threw that shit out. So a week later I just racked a few more and stashed em in an old Reebok shoe box in my closet. I got at least 10 other shoe boxes in there, all stacked up, so she probably won't suspect it. I still go out every now and then, mostly just sketchin in my book (which I also have to hide now).

But I'm mad at yall who got them cool ass parents. That shit ain't fair lmao. I can barely get my mom to gimme a ride to the beach on the weekends let alone help me scope out a spot and shit.

[Price250]

Um dude, they were being sarcastic.

I would go into the whole "Wait-until-you-can-wear-big-boy-underwear-before-you-try-to-paint" thing, but I can't front. I was doing shitty tags at 14 y.o. too.

[ELAPSR]

i dont live with my folks but when i got arrested for graff and i called and told my dad he flipped and kinda hung up on me. it took a little while before i could talk to him again. that was pretty recently. i wanna tell em i wanna just paint freights cuz if i have to call him again and tell him someting else regarding getting caught ill be kinda disowned. just tryin to think of how to word it. pretty stupid

[ereotav]

My parents are chill. They think its not the best thing but oh well. They have a suspicous i bet but there chill.

[Mr.Toy]

Shit ,I was bombing the skool with ACE and my dad caught me :o with sharpies and he took into the graffiti nd shit but he said keeep it on paper and blah,blah so he caught me
with sharpies and now he hides emhttp://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/images/smilies/redface.gif

[dBking]

my folks are cool with it. they are just like, dont get caught.

when i was a kid they were strict, but i dont know if they are just gettin old but i have mad bong sessions in the house and i dont hear anything about it unless i fall asleep with the stove on or something.

[I Like It Raw]

1 word NO! Why do you think Spider-Man never told Mary Jane about his power. Bitches love to talk. That's all I'm gonna say. 1...

[boost™]

my friends step-mom took us to micheals to rack paint 2 years ago lmao

[DaOnlyQue]

awesome

[Ney]

yeh i know my mom doesnt understand why i love graff so much :/

[lefty2]

my dad bought me a cope2 shirt for my birthday.

[SE-Rythm]

my parents absolutely hate it. they dont understand, i wont stop haha

[Asian Eater]

I get the usual...."don't be crying to me when you get caught" or "you better not be doing that shit" Auntie usually goes, "I thought you stopped doing that shit" My brothers are more cool with it. They actually point graff out asking me if I see that and I'm like, "yeah"

I don't care if my mom or anybody is cool with it or not, just accept the fact that I write.

[Kuer]

this entire thread is like a bad joke.. Maybe i'm just getting too old.. :o

you guys can't be fucking serious.. I feel ashamed even posting this.

You all need to grow the fuck up

[SNEK.PDA]

my dad bought me a cope2 shirt for my birthday.
King for sure^^
:lol: :lol:

[BROTHER ALI]

none of my family supports me

[I_fell_off_the_bike]

Well i live with my parents, and i was writin for about a year , secretly, and then boom i get fucked (caught) of course i was smart about it and all, and got away with it, but now then my parents knew what i was up to for the past year with all them sketch books. they've never been supportive to graffiti, so it was a rough year afterwards. then later, they asked me to paint at some wall, so i said okay. and i painted it , and after that day, they were a dash more supportive, which made my life way easier. but still doing them illegals, its still tough, they dont let me out at night with paint (lol yea, i'm only 16), an all that shit. and its shitty i gotta lie when i'm gonna go piecing. but gotta do what ya gotta do yannoeeeee.

[Swindle]

you guys are fucking lame.

[sketh]

i live with my mum and she knows but doesnt really mind so much cos she is in denial and i havent been caught yet. but i still like to keep it on the low. the less they knwo the better.
my bro used to do graff so he is cool with it and gives me advice occasionaly. and the other brothers couldnt really care.

[Marztek23]

i throw my folks up...i was showing my mom a billboard one time and she was like "howd yall get on there"! or my dad telling me my name was cool i show them all my flicks as my dad says"i like the colors"..imma grown man tho..so i can do that... back in the day it was all... "we just paint skateboard ramps and wood "..i def remember the days when i was hiding all my paint in the bushes by my house or in the trunk and my folks finding my paint and me making up bullshit stories how i was painting quater pipes for people or some shit...lol

[phillybios]

same thing here, my mom kindah supports me, i was in the car with her the other day (my liscense is suspended) and i was like look at that shit graffiti right there, lemme tag over it, she just said not right now at least wait till it gets dark so you wont have to worry about being seen, it was pretty epic

[kot5ps]

I only do it really because its the only art i know AND cuz mah parents told me i cant do anything so ima do illegal stuff till they find out

[RiSE-DvS]

Sorry about reviving this thread but I'd rather revive an old one than make a whole new one for the same thing. But anyways...
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My rents found out yesterday because I used to tag with a name that everyone knows me as (been my nickname for years) and my mom saw it on the side of this spa she decided to go to. They've been yelling at me all day and night and even all day today too. They're threatening to kick me out of the house and calling me stupid, worthless, piece of shit, good-for-nothing, retard, child, etc.

According to them, graffiti is not art and is nothing LIKE art. It's just pure pointless vandalism. I tried to explain to them that it's something I enjoy doing and I find that it calms me down and lets me think, but they don't really care at all. Everything I do for fun they shit on whether it's illegal or not. I told them a few months ago that I wanted to try making a business for customizing computer cases and video game consoles but they told me it's stupid and I shouldn't even bother because I'll end up screwing it up or wasting my money.

I told them about 5 weeks ago that I was looking into buying a motorcycle to go on a road trip and they shut me down on that too saying I can't be trusted on a motorcycle and that I'm too stupid to fix one and blah blah blah...

I really don't care anymore though. I'm going to paint whether they like it or not. They always find something that they can use to put me down but I'm not going to stop painting. If they take my paint, I'll buy more. If they kick me out, I'll go to a friends until I find my own place.

I'm tired of their bullshit. I'm 22 and I'm still not aloud to make my own decisions without them putting me down and kicking me out. My brother drinks and drives almost every night (not just buzzed driving, like BLACK OUT DRUNK driving) and they never say anything except "Okay, just make sure you don't do it again!" and then give him money to go buy more booze.

No longer will I accept the shit they do to me or say to me. I'm going to do what I want. I respect them FULLY and don't paint around the house, I don't make a mess of my bedroom, I don't drink alcohol, I don't borrow money off them, and I do all the work around here that there is to do (dishes, laundry, painting the house, vacuuming, sweeping, cleaning the car, roofing, and I fix everyones computers) but they won't respect me, or even listen to what I have on my mind. At least when I'm painting, I can be happy. I'm not going to give up doing something that I love and that makes me happy just because my parents don't like it. If everyone did that, there would be no rock and roll, no rap, no NOTHING.


And I'm not looking for pity or hand-outs or anything, I'm just ranting since I don't have anyone else to talk to about this shit. Thanks for giving me a place that I can go and talk to people like me about the shit that we all go through. I need you more than you need me, that's for SURE.

[Tuco Salamanca]

I do sketches and then my mom paints them for me.

[soej]

my moms totally cool with me going out and painting, but before i go all she says is "if you get caught, don't bother calling me, call your father". But she fully supports what I love doing so I guess it's pretty sick.

[¤Shark¤]

Sorry about reviving this thread but I'd rather revive an old one than make a whole new one for the same thing. But anyways...
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My rents found out yesterday because I used to tag with a name that everyone knows me as (been my nickname for years) and my mom saw it on the side of this spa she decided to go to. They've been yelling at me all day and night and even all day today too. They're threatening to kick me out of the house and calling me stupid, worthless, piece of shit, good-for-nothing, retard, child, etc.

According to them, graffiti is not art and is nothing LIKE art. It's just pure pointless vandalism. I tried to explain to them that it's something I enjoy doing and I find that it calms me down and lets me think, but they don't really care at all. Everything I do for fun they shit on whether it's illegal or not. I told them a few months ago that I wanted to try making a business for customizing computer cases and video game consoles but they told me it's stupid and I shouldn't even bother because I'll end up screwing it up or wasting my money.

I told them about 5 weeks ago that I was looking into buying a motorcycle to go on a road trip and they shut me down on that too saying I can't be trusted on a motorcycle and that I'm too stupid to fix one and blah blah blah...

I really don't care anymore though. I'm going to paint whether they like it or not. They always find something that they can use to put me down but I'm not going to stop painting. If they take my paint, I'll buy more. If they kick me out, I'll go to a friends until I find my own place.

I'm tired of their bullshit. I'm 22 and I'm still not aloud to make my own decisions without them putting me down and kicking me out. My brother drinks and drives almost every night (not just buzzed driving, like BLACK OUT DRUNK driving) and they never say anything except "Okay, just make sure you don't do it again!" and then give him money to go buy more booze.

No longer will I accept the shit they do to me or say to me. I'm going to do what I want. I respect them FULLY and don't paint around the house, I don't make a mess of my bedroom, I don't drink alcohol, I don't borrow money off them, and I do all the work around here that there is to do (dishes, laundry, painting the house, vacuuming, sweeping, cleaning the car, roofing, and I fix everyones computers) but they won't respect me, or even listen to what I have on my mind. At least when I'm painting, I can be happy. I'm not going to give up doing something that I love and that makes me happy just because my parents don't like it. If everyone did that, there would be no rock and roll, no rap, no NOTHING.


And I'm not looking for pity or hand-outs or anything, I'm just ranting since I don't have anyone else to talk to about this shit. Thanks for giving me a place that I can go and talk to people like me about the shit that we all go through. I need you more than you need me, that's for SURE.
WTF man. Move out asap. Then go and knock your fuckhead dad into the ground. What fucking scum to do that to their own son.

[hellothere]

sounds like you should bail kid. Go see some places for yourself. A little traveling always helps me put things back in perspective. Try New Orleans. Great music, mad abandoned buildings, and a quaility scene.