So, now that my wonderful supervisor's have made it possible for me to catch the bus home after work (not being sarcastic), I was making friends with one of the girls who does the face painting and henna tattoos and such things around the park. After awhile her phone rings and she starts talking with a guy friend. We casually notice that the bus seems to be running 20 minutes late, but expect it will be showing up any minute, the boy on her line offers to give us a ride, and we don't think it's necessary. Once the bus got to be about 45 minutes late, we were getting worried. My coworker was still on the phone with the boy, and asks if his offer is still open. He gladly accepts, and departs on his way. (They both live a considerable distance from the park whilst I am only about 5 miles and on their way anyway so I'm really no trouble at all). My coworker has to play phone tag for awhile because everyone keeps calling her and seem to have a lot to say. No biggie, since probably no one has had the chance to call her all day since she has been working (her first job, I remember how that was... it's odd though that I am a year younger than she...).
Her friend giving us the ride shows up shortly and we joyfully get into the car which is nicely warmer than sitting out at the cold(relatively speaking) bus stop. Then she suddenly remembers she needs to call her dad to let him know she is getting home. He FLIPS out! Keeps insisting she's doing some kind of shady plot to hang out with a BOY! *gasp* She must have asked the boy to take her home, and no doubt there is some nefarious plan in the making. While the girl is trying to explain, her dad keeps interrupting about how everything she is saying is bs and how he KNOWS she had this all plotted out from the beginning and why didn't she call HIM first when she needed a ride etc etc.
As I told the friend who was giving us a ride. "Wow, I've never wanted to punch someone I have never met before." When I was a young TEENAGER my mom sent me out the door to consort with friends and would simply tell me "Dont get pregnant, don't get arrested, Don't get killed, I love you, have fun." This poor girl is twenty years old, and her parents are treating her like she is an irrisponsible child because she has accepted a friend's offer to get a ride home. Hell when I am a parent and someone gives my child a ride home, I will give them money to compensate them for gas. In any case, her father wanted her to wait there all alone for her mother to come and pick her up. While it isn't necessarily a bad area, it is not a wise idea in this day and age to leave a young woman alone on a highway. So me and the friend waited with her for her mom to pick her up. When her mom got there I told her "Make sure to point out you would have already been home by now."
I really hate control freaks, mainly because several of them have tried to parent me, when there is nothing wrong with the parent I have. (yes no plural, my dad is a jack-ass ran off with another woman). But, delving into my past is a whole different can of worms. And I'm gonna go eat a sammich.
Her friend giving us the ride shows up shortly and we joyfully get into the car which is nicely warmer than sitting out at the cold(relatively speaking) bus stop. Then she suddenly remembers she needs to call her dad to let him know she is getting home. He FLIPS out! Keeps insisting she's doing some kind of shady plot to hang out with a BOY! *gasp* She must have asked the boy to take her home, and no doubt there is some nefarious plan in the making. While the girl is trying to explain, her dad keeps interrupting about how everything she is saying is bs and how he KNOWS she had this all plotted out from the beginning and why didn't she call HIM first when she needed a ride etc etc.
As I told the friend who was giving us a ride. "Wow, I've never wanted to punch someone I have never met before." When I was a young TEENAGER my mom sent me out the door to consort with friends and would simply tell me "Dont get pregnant, don't get arrested, Don't get killed, I love you, have fun." This poor girl is twenty years old, and her parents are treating her like she is an irrisponsible child because she has accepted a friend's offer to get a ride home. Hell when I am a parent and someone gives my child a ride home, I will give them money to compensate them for gas. In any case, her father wanted her to wait there all alone for her mother to come and pick her up. While it isn't necessarily a bad area, it is not a wise idea in this day and age to leave a young woman alone on a highway. So me and the friend waited with her for her mom to pick her up. When her mom got there I told her "Make sure to point out you would have already been home by now."
I really hate control freaks, mainly because several of them have tried to parent me, when there is nothing wrong with the parent I have. (yes no plural, my dad is a jack-ass ran off with another woman). But, delving into my past is a whole different can of worms. And I'm gonna go eat a sammich.
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