So a few months ago, my mom suddenly made up this "bedtime" rule where if i'm not in bed by 11PM, then i get crap taken away, usually my laptop. I originally didn't have to go along with it because she intended it for my little sister, who you may remember me mentioning from my
previous threads. However, on the second night that my mom was keeping this rule in effect, as my sister went up the stairs to bed, she shouted out "how come he doesnt have to go to bed?" while pointing at me. My mother said that I didn't need to, since my sister gets up earlier than i do because of her "schedule". My sister then asks "why doesnt he have a schedule but i do?" and my mom suddenly agrees with her and says to me "yeah, ok you've got to go to bed too now". I start to protest but i'm cut off by my sister who shouts at me "NOBODY CARES", then smirks at me and walks up to her room.
This rule has been really stupid since usually neither of us can ever seem to be able to "follow the rule" as my parents claim. I'll come out of my shower, put some night clothes on, then go to brush my teeth, and it seems that its ALWAYS whenever I am in the middle of brushing my teeth, my mom will come in and hold up her watch really close to my face as if i can't read, and say something ridiculous like
"you're 21 seconds past your bedtime, computers going away tomorrow lol". To make matters worse, she has a badly distorted sense of time since her watch is 5 1/2 minutes fast, and even when I show her the correct time on our microwave/stove/computers she dismisses it saying "well all of those clocks are off by several mins my time is right and yours is wrong and i go by mine anyways". It just comes off to me as handicapped that I lose my computer for an entire day just because her messed up watch claims i'm 21 seconds late doing something as mundane as hopping in a bed.
So the next day, when I come home from school, I try to get on to the computer to do my homework (most of my classes require me to do it online). But, when my sister walks into the room and sees me on it, she suddenly yells out in her usual tattletale voice: "HOW COME HE GETS TO USE HIS COMPUTER?!" while pointing at me. My mom suddenly goes along with her and says "oh yeah no computer today you didnt get to bed on time lol".
I protest, reminding her that I actually did and that I have homework to do, but my sister interrupts me and says to my mom "he's just saying that so he can play his stupid blockworld" or "actually i saw him and he didnt get to bed on time" or something else along those lines. When I protest further, my mom just dismisses me again and says "well go read a book" or something handicapped like that. So now, for the rest of that day I am stuck in the family room unable to complete my assignments and unable to watch netflix, since my dad is busy watching the news. What really dissapoints me is that my parents seem to almost always go along with whatever my sister says about me, even though 95% of the time it's lies.
And what really pisses me off is that this SAME SCENARIO has been going on for the past 6 DAYS. I have hardly ever been able to get on my computer now since my mom decided to enforce the rule like a national socialist, and whenever I DO make it and my sister doesn't, she lies to my mom so that I can suffer along with her.
Thankfully though whenever they leave the house (my sister has to go to a place called learning rx or something plus gymnastics often), I am able to get on the desktop and use it, but if my dad comes in then i always have to move over because he wants to play skyrim.
/discuss stupid household rules you/your friends have
