The thread for flipping shits (and tables)

So my mom decided that the best time to alert me and my brother that there was a huge list of chores for us to do was at about noon on the last day of our three day weekend.

Incidentally, the day I'd put aside to do my homework on. I knew there was a light load so I put it off in order to play Minecraft with my friends, on the assumption that my friends wouldn't be able to be online at the same time very often, but homework would still be there later. I had to cancel hanging out with my friends today because I still had to finish my homework, and there was no way in hell my mom would let me out of the house without finishing the half a day's worth of chores she had lined up for me.

When I got mad at her for not telling me about this list sooner, she got mad at me too and said that she "didn't want to bother me" and assumed I'd finished my homework because I was playing games with friends. Her rule - which she never enforces except to win arguments - is that homework needs to be finished before any games are played. So instead of checking to make sure, she just assumed I'd finished all my homework early Saturday when I started playing Wind Waker on the GC I borrowed from my friend, and decided not to even tell me about the chore list.

It's not just that I had to cancel with my friends because of this, it's also because she apparently hasn't realized that I don't need her micromanaging my schedule anymore. Haircuts and dentist appointments are one thing - how I spend my free time is something completely different, and I don't appreciate her trying to force me to spend it all on chores because of a choice to use some of it to play games that I made because she hadn't told me everything I needed to consider.

So I'm playing games and reading forums in silent rebellion because arguing with her won't do jack squat, and for all I know she'll just flip out and ban me from the computer or something. The last thing I want her to do is actually bother to enforce the "no video games until homework is done" rule that she insists I'm supposed to uphold, even though I have done fine without it for years.