Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Read it for yourself

Today was a pretty normal day. I had my math class with my dad, my mom was out getting some food from the oriental store, but the thing with my dad is that we set up a time for him. for his class and his class only, 90 minutes, all his to use.

 But when that time finishes I'm a free man, I'm supposed to be able to do whatever to my heart's content, ok that may be exaggerating it a little but you get what I mean. I did my daily membean, checked out the stocks, read a little, oh right I bought to cover on all the Tesla stocks I shorted before, I lost 250k on the trade but oh well, I'll gain it back sooner or later.

 Then I called up Psi and we played for a little while, maybe 45 min because the call lasted an hour and 10 min but I was doing membean for 30 minutes of it so yea around 45 min of play time. Then abruptly, my dad came in shouting at me, saying that I've been playing for way too long, I mean COME ON, it was only 45 MINUTES!! I was forced to end the call with Psi not wanting him to hear my dad's screaming and I haven't called him back yet but I will soon.

My dad stayed mad at me until an hour after dinner, and I made a dish for dinner too. I'm pretty good at cooking this one dish now so there's that. My dad called me into his room and showed me a 10 minute video of a guy explaining how to limit your kid's screen time, really?? I had to watch it all the way through and it sucked, the guy was clearly abusing his power, "YOU ARE THE PARENT!" he says, "YOU MAKE THE RULES!" he adds, yea RiGhT, you DO make the rules but it's MY job to make sure the rules aren't favoring one side over the other. The guy said make sure your child finished all their schoolwork before playing on their game system, otherwise don't let the hook it up to the TV, well guess what, I DONT EVEN HAVE A GAME SYSTEM, also theres NO SCHOOLWORK, ITS SUMMER VACATION!!! 

This is supposed to be my relaxation time, and now you're threatening to cut it off? what a killjoy, my dad even reprimands me for going on Nitrotype, this typing website where you are a little car and you need to type to go faster, that is supposed to help me improve my skills so why are you punishing me for it?? 

So basically three points:

1. I don't have schoolwork and I already do a lot more work than others
2. I don't have a game system, and I don't even play that much games
3. ITS SUMMER VACATION, so show me some clemency (membean word) if I decide to indulge myself every once in a while.

Thank you, I rest my case.

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