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why are parents so confusing?!
Posted Dec 13, 1999
Alright. Here's the deal. I've been gone to New Orleans all weekend and had absolutely no sleep. I woke up this morning (a Monday) at about 15 minutes before I had to leave for school (which, for a teenage girl, isn't very long at all). My mom walks in, tells me what time it is (to give me one of those "still half asleep and you don't know what's going on, but you don't like it" heart attacks), and stands at the foot of my bed to see the reaction. It takes me a few seconds to realize I have all of 15 minutes to get a shower, do my hair, get dressed, and unpack from my stressful weekend in Louisiana. I manage to mumble an "oh man" and proceed to bury my face into my pillow hoping to somehow make it all go away. My mom then says "Wanna just stay home?"......it was one of those times when I just knew she was mocking me. I nodded, of course thinking she was merely joking. "Alright, I need someone to watch your brother anyway.... I don't feel like going next door to ask." She then walked out of my room, kindly turning the light off as she shut the door. Now it's not that I MIND being here right now at almost noon, still in my pajamas and NOT listening to my teachers lecture. It's just that so many times I've TRIED to get out of school by putting on a truly breathtaking, life-like act of illness, and every time my mother has turned into a cold-hearted anything-but-sympathetic robot or something. If anyone could explain this to me, please let me know....
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