Purple Screaming Monkey

Music: None, except what i hope is the loud clacking of the keyboard
Feeling: Read the rant below

My parents are not letting me have the car at all. In fact, all of a sudden, I'm not allowed to drive. ARGH.

I think they're having trouble letting go in all aspects of my life. (They still try to manage my money) In fact, I think I'll get a cell phone on the sly and just not tell my parents that I have one so that they won't phone me at 6:00 pm asking where the hell I am, and why can't I be like their friend's kids who stay at home and study and who are home before dark? Who is also sleeping by 10:00? (Then my mom also adds that they don't drink coffee, whereas I drink it like a fish with water. Let me point out that I only have a medium cup/day, which is not a lot)

Answer 1: Their friend's kid is boring as hell and has no social life beyond school. In fact, I think most of them never had a job yet and I'm working 3 right now.
Asnwer 2: The said kid is most likely lying to their parents about studying, but having fun at some wild party getting drunk
Answer 3: In fact, the said dependent IS lying since a student doesn't have normal hours at all. (This is why the libraries are open unti midnight and that's on normal school days.) Who the hell goes to sleep before midnight?! I bet that that said dependent is sneaking out of the house
Answer 4: WHY DO I HAVE TO BE LIKE THE SAID DEPENDENT?! (Who is assumed to be the norm) Look at all the bloody cars in the mutiple parking lots at school at 1:00 in the morning that are almost full! Look at the many cars driving in at 1:00 in the morning! They are all students! Guess who is the norm?! The bloody school is packed with students studying! There are no such things as 9:00 am-4:00 pm days. (This is where I mention that my mom seriously thought that the university classes ended at 4 and that they school sent out report cards to the parents at the end of each term. Did I ever have to explain that... and she didn't understand that the school body is made out of what is considered adults, etc, etc. Apprently the entire system is wrong)
Answer 5: I'm involved with school. On some very important committees where I'm elected to boards where we are in charge of a $15 000 budget that will be increasing hopefully and where we have the power to fire elected co-ordinators. Of couse I'm not home and need advance notice of family parties. I can't drop everything to translate phone calls and bills at this moment since I need to get to an important meeting that I'm already late for. How about rearranging for another day this week? Why isn't that good enough?! Why does it have to be at that very bloody moment?!

My parents were at first very supportive of getting my G2 (Kind of... but that's another story) Then came the "YOu can't drive until you get insurance" Okay, reasonable. But then when I ask for the insurance policy number and the number to phone th company, my parents refuse to give it to me. Then comes the "Bloody no way"s And then come the "No driving b/c it's winter. No driving b/c it's night. No driivng b/c there's crazy people out there." Where does it stop?!

So comes plan B. Okay, parentals not being good about this and who don't believe that I'm actually busy, then fine. I'll call them up at 1:00 am or later everyday. I'll let them see how it feels to be a student since they never had a chance to be one. (They keep on reminding me of this) They have to get sick of that.

No. My dad said he would rather pick me up. But of course, once he does, I can't drive the car at night Apprently I'm a bad driver. Let me point out that my dad had to take his road test 6 times before he passed it. And gets into accidents because he drives to slow. (I remember the days of "Eunice! You're going 20 km/hr! That's to fast!" after 1 year of finshing up my driver course)

Which is course blew into a huge arguement about why I can't have a little bit more independence, and explaining why I'm not like Lynn, or Mona, or whoever is the ideal Korean child is at the moment. (Apprently there's no such thing as the ideal Chinese child or some other race Seems that Koreans are perfect and I'm not. Except for someone named James Park who ran away once to a friend's place for a few days, but his mistake was going to a Korean friend's place and the gossip was more rampant then me on caffine. I don't blame him, he is ruled over by his Nazi sisters and mom who I tell to let him take a break) Which my dad trys to end with a "Because I said so because I'm the head of this family and a male" (Roughly translated from Korean) Which starts it all over again about the lack of explainations for anything and the lack of advance notice for any family function and how I don't have time. But then I add in stuff about feminism and equality. (Which goes over everyone's heads)

God, that was long. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the wine from the Christmas party. I'm just very frustrated about my parents. And lack of letting go. Honestly. I bet if I ever got my way and lived on rez my mom try to live with me. (She would somehow break into the apartment and never leave I bet) There's someone on rez like that. The mom just lived with her son in Foley. Needless to say, his housemates weren't home a lot.

I think I'm going to ask for cash that will go towards owning my own car for Christmas.