What the Flying FCUK
I am about fed up with being here in VA. I think my parents think I should be sheltered from everything, and they're so contradictory. Especially my dad. As much as I love him, I think he needs to realize that I am sixteen years old, not 10. Yesterday, I got to drive on a major highway for the first time -- and it was with him. He made me so nervous, I was scared to death with him in the car. He tries to instruct me about the islands of gravel that cars make. *sigh* The worst part was when we turned into the video store parking lot. Whenever I turn a corner he said "you would have hit those cars." He was saying I would have hit some cars if they had been in the empty parking spaces. Well, there weren't any there, and that's what I told him. "You need to act as if there are cars there." Whatever.
So we get into the video store and I'm standing around picking out movies. I get three: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Mean Girls, and Cruel Intentions. I got Cruel Intentions because it was recommended to me by Aodhan. Turns out it and the movie Dangerous Liaisons are based on a pre-revolution french novel. And I had caught bits and pieces on TV -- wanted to see the movie.
So we're driving back home, and I make a turn onto our road. And I make it wide, a bit of an accident. But my dad says, "you didn't have to make it that wide." And me response? "I know, I'm sorry, ok? But what if there had been a car there; I wouldn't want to hit it. And what does he say? Oh my gawd. "Well there wasn't a car there, you didn't have to worry about it." Is this the guy who was telling me only a half an hour before to act like there was a car? I can't win!
So we get home, I get online for a while, I watch That 70s House on MTV, ad then I go in my room to go to bed. Well, I get on the phone with Will at about 11:30, and my mom comes home and I think she heard me; she told me to get off. Dad probably knows, but props to her if she didn't say a word. I get up this morning and I'm online; my dad calls just before I'm about to go pop in Mean Girls. The first thing he mentions "one of your movies is missing." Sure enough, I look in the bag and Cruel Intentions is gone. "I took it; I don't think its entirely appropriate for a girl your age." Does he not realize that I have heard worse, seen worse? I couldn't argue with him on this, I couldn't get a word in. Thanks alot, Dad. Really wanted to see the movie, too. "I don't care about any of the dirty stuff. Its a movie, its entertainment." "So, if I let you watch an x-rated movie would you say the same thing?" "I don't want to watch an x-rated movie."
Life just sucks, you know? I'm going to go finish watching Mean Girls. Great movie, so far.
So we get into the video store and I'm standing around picking out movies. I get three: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Mean Girls, and Cruel Intentions. I got Cruel Intentions because it was recommended to me by Aodhan. Turns out it and the movie Dangerous Liaisons are based on a pre-revolution french novel. And I had caught bits and pieces on TV -- wanted to see the movie.
So we're driving back home, and I make a turn onto our road. And I make it wide, a bit of an accident. But my dad says, "you didn't have to make it that wide." And me response? "I know, I'm sorry, ok? But what if there had been a car there; I wouldn't want to hit it. And what does he say? Oh my gawd. "Well there wasn't a car there, you didn't have to worry about it." Is this the guy who was telling me only a half an hour before to act like there was a car? I can't win!
So we get home, I get online for a while, I watch That 70s House on MTV, ad then I go in my room to go to bed. Well, I get on the phone with Will at about 11:30, and my mom comes home and I think she heard me; she told me to get off. Dad probably knows, but props to her if she didn't say a word. I get up this morning and I'm online; my dad calls just before I'm about to go pop in Mean Girls. The first thing he mentions "one of your movies is missing." Sure enough, I look in the bag and Cruel Intentions is gone. "I took it; I don't think its entirely appropriate for a girl your age." Does he not realize that I have heard worse, seen worse? I couldn't argue with him on this, I couldn't get a word in. Thanks alot, Dad. Really wanted to see the movie, too. "I don't care about any of the dirty stuff. Its a movie, its entertainment." "So, if I let you watch an x-rated movie would you say the same thing?" "I don't want to watch an x-rated movie."
Life just sucks, you know? I'm going to go finish watching Mean Girls. Great movie, so far.