Hey CreateMyTee!
My friend showed this to me the other day, and I figured I would write in a question of my own.
So, my problem is much less colorful than last week's, but I still think you can help me. I'm a college student home for summer. I had a great junior year in Indiana, but that greatness has disappeared thanks to my overbearing and overprotective parents. They want me to check in with them periodically when I go out for the night, they seem so angry with me when I leave home to visit my friends at other colleges, and I'm not even going to approach them about the trip to California I’m going on in a few weeks.
What do you suggest I do? Move out? Talk about it with them? Look for new parents?
-Danny L
Dear Danny L,
It sounds like you need a new approach to talk to your parents about this issue. I suggest you pack your belongings, sneak out in the middle of the night, and take a month-long road trip around the U.S. At each place you stop, send your parents a postcard—make sure the postcard doesn’t give away your exact location though (just get those ones with like pictures of birds on them or something). On every postcard, write a clue as to where you are and why you’re mad at them—it’ll be like a huge game of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, so it might help if you befriend a monkey.
Once they’ve spent hours worrying about you/calling you/flying to cities they think you’re in (but you’ll be too fast for them—make sure you’re always on the move), they’ll get sick and tired of being so overprotective and overbearing and probably apologize to you for their behavior. That, or they'll call the cops. Be sure to pack some disguises. Maybe a good pair of fence climbing shoes.
Best of luck,
CreateMyTee
