"Give her ravioli, she's a vegan."

[astralromantic]

My mother has done it again. She has eliminated yet another couch, the day after she kicks all of my tea out of the kitchen. Anyone has known me for more than two years knows about The Great Couch Fiasco of 2007, where I spent an entire summer without a couch because the voices in my mother's head demanded she eliminate the glorious blue L-shaped

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[tinaviel]

I can one-up you. Sort of. My old bedroom door was broken when I was about 15 because I slammed it so hard the doorknob hit the wall and because the doors you buy at Home Depot or whatever are shitty plywood, the part of the door around the knob splintered.

My dad bought a new piece of plywood, stained it, and replaced the door on its hinges.

Three years or so later my parents got into a fight with my sister, one of them (I can't even remember who, that's how long this was) put up their hand to block the door from closing as she stormed into the room in front of them. Hand goes through door. Every spring my dad promises me he'll redo the door again when it gets warm enough outside to set up his workbench.

I'm still waiting.

[savinnah]

I can't understand. Is it really your mother's method of punishment? It's just so wierd.

[astralromantic]

It is not her method of punishment, she just hates that the couch has a hole in it from my cats.

[beyondobsessive]

But... what? Where is your tea supposed to go? And did some couch grievously wrong your mother at an indefinite point in the past?

My former roommate used to rearrange my furniture. Not the stuff in my bedroom, but things that I had bought for communal use. She also refused to buy a couch. These are among the many reasons she's my former roommate.

[hazelfo]

Are the folding chairs back, then?

[astralromantic]

No we still have another couch in the room. When my mother got rid of the blue couch, she replaced it with three pieces of furniture and has now eliminated one, which is a loveseat. So there is still somewhere to sit in the living room but it looks much bigger.

[carminalizarin]

Parents often seem to forget that things like "rule of law" and "fairness", if believed in, ought to apply everywhere. When I was about 14 my dad decided one day to clean my room, because I hadn't done so lately, and in so doing, threw away three years' worth of stories and drawings I'd done. I'm still pissed about that. In your case: Yes, getting out eventually would probably be wise, since that's rather unreasonable of her. If she's bound and determined to get rid of the thing, she could at least give you a date and time when it'll be gone, so that you could plan accordingly.