December 29, 2008
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My sister told me not to blog about her apartment, West Towne Manner, so I'm doing it because it's not her decision. I've spent the last few days with my mom and her, getting her moved into her upstairs apartment with all her heavy furniture, including but not limited to the family couch, a "creshenda", and her new bed (and possibly her bedframe tomorrow). Despite the fact that I've spent the last few days moving all that heavy furniture, helping her get moved in, going along with them while they shopped for furniture, me being on my best behavior and etc, I'm still not being allowed to take my own truck (which I was nice enough to let them borrow) to an arcade that I was sorta kinda hoping to go to, the Fort Sanders Yacht Club. Even though I'm 19. Because it's "in a bad part of town". What does that mean anyways? I checked streetview on Google Maps to scope out the area, and it certainly doesnt look like a bad part of town to me. It's just a little downstairs basement arcade a couple blocks north of University of Tennessee. I deserve to be treated like an adult.
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Haha, my mom always tells me "that's a bad part of town" whenever I want to go off on my own. I think its a mom thing.
@dantesplayer345 - Shouldnt be an older sister thing, since she's usually cool but now she's just acting like a bitch.
Ohh, I misread :S
I'm sorry. Seems like she should of let you do what you wanted considering all the things you did for her.
@dantesplayer345 - Glad you agree. I've been doing NOTHING but favors for her this entire time, she of all people should have sided with me. The least that she could do is offer go with me for a couple of hours to keep an eye out on me, I wouldnt have minded that, especially since I've spent so much time being dragged along from one furniture shop to the next. But no, she wont even do that, what a bitch.
you're in tennessee? you're mom loves you and cares about you. we'll appreciate our parent's over protectiveness one day.
@emra_cadaver - No, I wont. People say that, but my parents always took it too far. Example: I wasnt allowed to watch The Simpsons until I was 18.
So I originally popped over to comment on definitions of "bad part of town" but then I read the comments and got distracted. Oops.
Firstly - people are selfish. Your sister is busy organizing and perfecting her new apartment, so you wanting to play videogames for a couple hours is, to her, the equivalent of asking a 15 year old boy to watch his 5 year old sister play in the McDonald's kiddie park.
Secondly - You WILL someday appreciate your parents' overprotectiveness, even if you never admit it (and although I have to admit the Simpsons at 18 is a bit much). Oh, and read "someday" as "when you have to make those rules yourself". Like I've heard . . . someone say . . . at least once - it's better for your kid to be mad at you for being overprotective than for them to be hurt because you weren't protective enough.
And lastly, what I originally came here for, the definition of "bad part of town": completely subjective. My parents feel that if the area isn't all white, 30 years up and middle class, it's bad. Most people consider any area that seems "raggedy" or kinda poor as a bad place. Just grit your teeth, smile politely, bitch when they can't hear you and remember - one of these days you'll be out on your own and EVERY decision will be completely up to you.
@HiddenChronos - My sister was busy organizing her apartment, yes. Meaning, she didnt want me to interfere. Being out and away from the apartment would've been the BEST thing I could have done to help. And no, I wont appreciate my parents overprotectiveness. You may say "oh you say that now, that'll change", but it wont, sorry. You werent in my shoes. I AM out on my own, every decision SHOULD be completely up to me. I just came down to help my sister move, aside from these last few days I'm not under my parents wings. It shouldnt be their decision. You're an adult, right? Would you be happy if you offered to help your parents out for a few days, and they took away your driving privaleges during that time? If you say "yes", you're nuts.
One of my friends is experiencing the same thing. No matter how hard she works - always babysitting her cousins, getting good grades in school, working hard at her job - her older bro doesn't let her do things on her own. <_<
That's family lol. People think that I live in a bad part of town and wonder why I don't get shot at every time I go home late. I think I live in a nice, quiet part of town
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Google Maps doesn't show where all the drug deals go down... or does it?
Capn, I hate to tell you this, but I've been an "adult" and "on my own" since I was 15. Noone takes away my driving privileges except maybe, maybe, the government (police, DMV, etc). Maybe they treat you like a kid because you let them?
@HiddenChronos -
Since that's the case, I wouldnt expect you to understand, and perhaps you should consider keeping your opinions about my situation to yourself.
@AvenueToTheReal -
Drug deals happen everywhere, not just "bad" parts of town.
basement arcade sounds like bad news. but parents always exaggerate. but it's an arcade. i love arcades.
@cApNhOwDy - why do you let them? i wouldn't have asked permission. i would have just gone
@mysticlady1221 -
@mysticlady1221 -
They had my keys.
@Infamous_Dewey -
I dont see how anyone can equate arcades with bad news. All the arcades I've ever been to were good family fun. And they werent against the idea of me going to a basement arcade, because I've gone to plenty of those, it's just this one in particular that was in a "bad part of town".
ohhhhh ok. well that really blows then. i'm sorry
I don't like when the holidays bring families together...and then also tend to make family members argue and fight, about stupid things, you know? I think in these situations, even when the kids are adults, parents still think of them as kids, and treat them that way.
Well, I hope things are better now.
<3 Mia