Parents and Asians and Earthquakes Oh My!
So for Easter I go home to my parents house. As anyone who's been to my house knows, (um, Carmin I think) I generally don't talk to my parents. This has been my policy since my early teens, ever since I made the connection between the amount of information my parents know and my blood pressure (less = lower). I won't get into the gritty details, but in general once my parents identify something they think is a defect or flaw in one of their children they work tirelessly to correct it. Which of course means hounding them with everything they can think of to get their way.
I survived this by being the lesser of two evils. Basically, as long as my brother was a bigger screw up they wouldn't try to force information out of me, leaving them with no other criticisms but "oh an A-, you can do better". This Easter is the first time, however, that my brother was unavailable to recieve their crap. This, predictably, led to them hounding me using whatever information they had on my life - which amounts to two things:
1. I don't talk to them much
2. I'm dating Vicky
So, first two days (Friday and Saturday) they literally hounded me every five minutes to get me to tell them something. I, of course, skillfully dodged these assualts by artfully insulting their intelligence. So on Easter (Sunday) they moved on to the next one.
My parents met and spent about a week with Vicky, and she was amazing. She pretty much left them with the impression that she is the perfect woman. So, my parents were unable to attack Vicky directly, instead they had to figure out something that I am doing wrong with her. They know she is Buddhist, but I think they think I will make her into a Catholic some day, so they didn't touch the religion aspect.
Instead, the flaw they found to hound me about is the fact that Vicky still hasn't told her parents about me. She has not done this for a couple of reasons which I won't list here, but my view is that they are, of course, her parents so she knows best. I've pretty much been fine with this, as it is also her responsibility to notify them of people she is dating, right?
Apparently not. All of Sunday, my dad kept calling me a child because I haven't called Vicky's parents to tell them I exist. ????
When he first said this, I laughed so hard and called him a fucking dumbass. Of course, my parents strategy of "annoy the fuck out of the kid until he submits" was well under way. It should be noted, that any and all logical things said to them during their parenting sessions is disregarded without review. So I had to listen to hour upon hour of this shit, they of course tag-teaming and inventing creative lead-ins like the pros do
( ME: I can take Vicki a present from yall if you want
MOM: HMM, I don't know, Ken what do you think?
DAD: A present? Why whould I want to give him a present to take to her when he's such a child he has to sneak behind her parents back like a teenager? )
Some of this stuff is pretty funny, I should really record it and sell it.
So, at any rate, I'm fucking pissed at them (10 hours of this crap would make you pissed too). And I'm worried that the idiots will predictably take matters into their own hands and try to contact Vicki's parents themselves. That should be a funny conversation huh?
Ok, Rant OFF
Oh yeah, and yesterday a 8.7 magnitude aftershock hit indonesia. I can't wait to get to Krabi!
I survived this by being the lesser of two evils. Basically, as long as my brother was a bigger screw up they wouldn't try to force information out of me, leaving them with no other criticisms but "oh an A-, you can do better". This Easter is the first time, however, that my brother was unavailable to recieve their crap. This, predictably, led to them hounding me using whatever information they had on my life - which amounts to two things:
1. I don't talk to them much
2. I'm dating Vicky
So, first two days (Friday and Saturday) they literally hounded me every five minutes to get me to tell them something. I, of course, skillfully dodged these assualts by artfully insulting their intelligence. So on Easter (Sunday) they moved on to the next one.
My parents met and spent about a week with Vicky, and she was amazing. She pretty much left them with the impression that she is the perfect woman. So, my parents were unable to attack Vicky directly, instead they had to figure out something that I am doing wrong with her. They know she is Buddhist, but I think they think I will make her into a Catholic some day, so they didn't touch the religion aspect.
Instead, the flaw they found to hound me about is the fact that Vicky still hasn't told her parents about me. She has not done this for a couple of reasons which I won't list here, but my view is that they are, of course, her parents so she knows best. I've pretty much been fine with this, as it is also her responsibility to notify them of people she is dating, right?
Apparently not. All of Sunday, my dad kept calling me a child because I haven't called Vicky's parents to tell them I exist. ????
When he first said this, I laughed so hard and called him a fucking dumbass. Of course, my parents strategy of "annoy the fuck out of the kid until he submits" was well under way. It should be noted, that any and all logical things said to them during their parenting sessions is disregarded without review. So I had to listen to hour upon hour of this shit, they of course tag-teaming and inventing creative lead-ins like the pros do
( ME: I can take Vicki a present from yall if you want
MOM: HMM, I don't know, Ken what do you think?
DAD: A present? Why whould I want to give him a present to take to her when he's such a child he has to sneak behind her parents back like a teenager? )
Some of this stuff is pretty funny, I should really record it and sell it.
So, at any rate, I'm fucking pissed at them (10 hours of this crap would make you pissed too). And I'm worried that the idiots will predictably take matters into their own hands and try to contact Vicki's parents themselves. That should be a funny conversation huh?
Ok, Rant OFF
Oh yeah, and yesterday a 8.7 magnitude aftershock hit indonesia. I can't wait to get to Krabi!
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