30 People Who Realized Their Parents Were Cooler Than Them

Could you believe that the stout gentleman in your backyard grilling burgers in a Hawaiian shirt and white sneakers was once a cool dude riding a chopper across Europe or wrestling Chuck Norris himself? We couldn’t either – if it weren’t for the photographic proof.

#1 My Favorite Picture Of My Mom. She Was The Only Girl In Her Welding Class In 1984. Byrd High School, Shreveport, Louisiana

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#2 My Mother Doing A Handstand On Two Skateboards (Circa 1980’s)

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#3 My Mom Flew Helicopters For The Army In The 80s

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#4 Chuck Norris Pinned By My Dad

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#5 My Dad At His First Job At Nasa!

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#6 My Dad Diving Off The Starboard Fin Of A Submarine And Into The Pacific Ocean In The Summer Of 1983

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#7 My Dad And His Veterinarian Mother, With Their Pet Lion Which They Raised For Two Years, 1959

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#8 My Dad (Front) In Vietnam In 1971. He Didn’t Know This Photo Existed Until I Came Across It Randomly On The Internet. He Cried When He Saw It

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#9 My Mom Holding Myself Whilst Writing Her Master Thesis On The Macintosh Classic II (1991)

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#10 My Friends Parents Are Celebrating Their 47th Anniversary This Week. Here’s Them Being Badasses In The 70’s

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#11 My Mom, Age 15, Smoking At An Allman Brothers Concert With A Broken Arm. Watkins Glen ’73

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#12 My Mom In The Police Academy, 1984

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#13 1969 Vietnam: My Father’s Version Of A Selfie Before Selfies Were A Thing

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#14 My Mom Was A Homicide Detective In The 80s

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#15 My Parents In 1972 In Front Of Their Store In Paris

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#16 My Dad A Zoo Keeper In 1992

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He was the only one at the time who could call the rhinos by name and they would come running like dogs. They enjoy a scratch behind the ear like dogs too.

#17 My Pregnant Mom At Gunpoint Trying To Get Home – May 1969 Berkeley

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#18 My Father Who Shipped His Bike Over To England And Rode All Over Europe On It – 1973

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#19 My Dad’s Graduation Photo. Circa 1970’s

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#20 Mom Spinning Records At Kwkh, Shreveport – 1977

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#21 My Mom As A Red Cross Volunteer In WWII. She Had Her Own Radio Show In The Pacific Theater To Counteract Tokyo Rose. 1944

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#22 One Of My Favorite Photos Of My Parents In The Late 70s

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#23 My Mom Fled Saigon In 1975. By The 90s, She Had Joined The US Air Force

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#24 Pretty Rad Picture Of My Dad When He Was 22, In Texas, Taken In 1987. That Ghettoblaster Is Epic

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#25 My Dad Taking A Smoking Break While Fighting Saddam Husseins Army In The 80s

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#26 My Mom Said She Gave This Up When She Had Me. I’m Pretty Sure She Stopped When I Was Old Enough To Want Some (1970’s)

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#27 My Hilarious Father (With The Magazine) And My Grandfather, Grandmother, And Uncle At His Bar Mitzvah In 1972

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#28 My Father Halfway Through Motorcycling Across Africa – 1980s

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#29 My Dad Fishing… On A Nuclear Submarine 1966

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#30 My Mom In The Hospital After Giving Birth To My Sister. Canada 1978. Smokes And Roasted Chicken

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