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Annoying your parents

Andrea Julia · Coach

BrazenCanadian wrote:

As a kid, teen or even now, what did you do that drove your parents nuts? I had some doozies as a teenager. I found a way around curfew by saying I was going to stay over at a friend's place, then after curfew ended I came home saying I felt like coming home (like 2 or 3 am). It took ages for my mom to finally catch on to that one but when she finally realized what I was up to she was sooo annoyed.

BC, I used to do the same thing! Most of the time, I was out with another person with a curfew and we would say we were sleeping at each other's houses and just do our best to stay out until at least 7am so it looked like we really did sleep over. I used to say stuff like my friend and her family were visiting family in another state and got on the road early and dropped me off.

My mother really wasn't ever annoyed at anything I did unless I got caught by a teacher, friend's parent, or other authority figure. For example, she found weed in my room my freshman year of high school and didn't care and we would freely talk about cutting classes in front of her and she wouldn't care, but if I were to get caught smoking weed or cutting classes, she would be extremely annoyed. So, yeah, anything that I did that made her have to do extra work or be "embarrassed" in front of my teachers, friends' parents, or other adults would annoy her. Otherwise, she was pretty permissive.

tara t · Marc Jacobs

good lord. i think everything i did drove my parents crazy. i was a bad one. i'm honestly surprised now that i made it thru without getting myself into bigger trouble. my worst nightmare is to have a daughter like me.

probably the most anoying thing was i used to just talk back to her all the time. i'd sneak out, did drugs, drank, and all kinds of bad stuff. i think my parents were scared/worried for me, but then they were just mad as hell.

but now at 28 i think i've turned out pretty well.

Elle · Hermes

I left dishes in my room and clothes on the floor. I was a rebel I tell you, a REBEL

! It was such a big deal that they made my life miserable and I promptly moved out the day after I turned 18. They later apologized for the fuss once they got a taste of how bad a teenager can really be, via my 16 year old brother

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Maddie · Coach

I've always been very very independent which I think was the root of my issues with my parents. From pretty much 8th grade on I had no interest in them being involved in my life at all. They naturally disagreed with this. I drank and did drugs and stuff in high school, but I was never really out of hand. I maintained decent grades and everything and was pretty involved. But I would have screaming matches with my mom at least once a week and about once a month I would just disappear for about two days. I pretty much attempted to act like I was just some one renting a room from my parents, not actually their daughter. Which didn't fly with them. We are much better now that I don't live there, but my mom and I did get in a huge fight this summer again where we didn't talk for about three weeks.

Tati · Chanel

i was okay, got caught ditching school a lot in junior high and high school, never got caught drinking or lying about spending the night at my girlfriends house. I used to tell them i'd be at my girlfriends house sleeping when i was really at my boyfriends house sleeping, yikes! im so glad i dont have a girl for those reasons (teenagers).

oh, and i got pregnant at 17!

lindsayp · Kenneth Cole

oh god, I was a total disaster!! I stole money and gas cards from both my parents, lied, snuck out every night to drink mass quanitites of alcohol and do mass quantities of drugs, I dropped out my senior year, and was in an abusive relationship as well. I was a friggin' star of a child!!! Oh well, they ended up sending me away to a boarding school for "troubled" teenage girls and I got my shit back together. My mom and I have a great relationship now!! The only things we fight about are how bad each of us thinks the other one drives, my cussing, and the fact that she thinks I should be able to control my hiccups. THEY'RE INVOLUNTARY!! HOW DO YOU CONTROL AN INVOLUNTARY ACTION???

blink · Coach

I am kind of the opposite, my mother is the one who can tend to annoy me. She always loses things, is late, gets lost, forgets dates....ah...gotta love her though, she thinks I am great and I can't think of something that annoyed her about me. My high school friends did used to annoy her though, can't blame her, they were partiers after all and were always thinking they could sneak their alcohol in my closet.

Sandy · Kate Spade

I never really told my parents what was going on in my life. I had nothing to hide... I was a good kid. I lied a lot. I'd say "yeah mom, I'm going to Danielle's house" when really I would go hang out with a boy. I never told them about boyfriends or fights with friends, and I think that bothered them. When I got caught in my lies, I wouldn't confess... I'd try to keep them going.

I didn't do homework, but I still made good grades... that annoyed them. I never missed the honor roll in my four years of high school, plus the two in jr high. Since I didn't do homework, they wouldn't move me up to AP classes. I wasn't challenged in the classes I was in, so I passed my classes in my sleep.

I didn't have good eating habits, and this annoyed my parents to no end. My whole sophomore year, this was my eating routing: no breakfast, chips and soda for lunch, chips and soda for an after school snack, whatever my mom made for dinner, and ice cream for a late night snack. I'd sneak the chips up to my room and leave the bags there once I ate them all. Clean, huh . Eventually, I got over it.

I went to a community college. My parents were SO annoyed with this. "Stephanie, you have so much potential... blah blah blah." They weren't dissapointed, per se, because I was furthering my education (I just recently learned this)... they didn't think anything was wrong with community college, they were just annoyed that I "settled".