I'm a bad kid
So I went to the mall today and decided to get my cartilage pierced (because it's something I've really wanted to do for a while now). And I went through with it (and told them a white lie...that I'm 18, not 17) and paid $25 to do so. I get home and show my dad, who says it's my body and my choice, although I can tell he's a little bit skeptical. Then my mom sees it and FLIPS. Apparently I should have asked my parents because I'm 17, and it was wrong to dupe the people at Images into piercing my ear because I'm a minor not an adult. And if my parents let me keep the piercing, that means they're showing me that I can break the law and lie and they can't do anything about it and there will be no consequences. And I totally understand that.
BUT, the way I see it, that whole thing in November where I lied and got drunk and essentially broke the law taught me that they won't let me get away with everything. I came home with a pierced ear and it's like I came home pregnant. It's my ear, for God's sake, and my $25 more importantly. So what if I lied to put a hole in my ear? I didn't come home with a tattoo or nose ring. What I got wasn't "distasteful".
My parents tell me all the time that they're the parents and they have the power to make these kinds of decisions for me. And that I should be grateful because I could have worse parents. But I don't think they ever really stop to think that they could have a worse child. Sure, I've lied and gone out drinking, but I'm not smoking, I've never had sex, I don't fail in school, I never bother to ask to go out more than twice a week (in the summer at least. During school I ask maybe once a week). I'm a good kid. They know I have friends who are stoners and whatnot. And they know I choose not to get involved in the same stuff. So I don't understand why it's so (and I quote them) "defiant" to get my ear pierced without their permission. My mom even told me she was disappointed in me.
Why don't they just trade me for a new kid?
And I forgot to mention that I'm supposed to take the earring out and let the hole heal over.