Nov 26, 2003 16:35
I would like to share with you the brilliance of my father.
Last night, my dad's alarm clock stopped working. Now, my father is not someone who wakes up after 6 AM on any day (that includes weekends), so the absence of an alarm clock can be quite a perturbing predicament.
He asked to barrow mine. I agreed as long as he promised to wake me up in the morning. I thought nothing of it.
I woke up this morning to my mom screaming at me. "WHY THE HELL AREN'T YOU AT SCHOOL!!!!"
I stumble around for a while to find some pants or something as my mom scampers around the upstairs in panic screaming things like "You know, you can't graduate if you have to many tardies." My dad walks up the stairs in inquiry about the screaming. He notices me and immediately turns around and walks away (almost cartoonishly, like whistling and looking off into space to avoid eye contact....except he didn't actually whistle).
The fucked up part is that he blamed being late to school on me saying shit like "Its not my responsibility to be your personal alarm clock" and "How are you going to wake up next year in college."
I really didn't care that he forgot, but he should have placed blame on himself.
Everyone went on screaming for a few minutes, then he called me in saying that I slept in (unexcused, the jackass), they tried to give me a detention. I bitched and got out of it. I missed watching Gattaca in AP Bio second period.
I really have it so much better than most. My parents can be psycho once in a while, but I have a dad that provides for me and a mom who loves me and I should be appreciative. I am, I just hate stupidity.
But what bothers me the most is that this completely sounds like something I would do.
My fingernails match my new guitar.....