Vacation with the 'rents
I'm at Maui right now, the most beautiful of the beautiful Hawaiian islands. Truly a paradise; and yet, I must vent. I'll try to make it quick since I'm paying for this bit of internet.
Perhaps it's because I'm still pissed at the ideology of having a midnight curfew, but vactioning with my parents is becoming well-nigh unbearable. I thought I'd be able to drown it all out, but it's proving more difficult than I imagined.
I'm having one of those moments when a grown-up child has to realize that his/her parents might not be all that and a bag of chips, or at least all that they used to be. Several times today I was assaulted by the thought that my parents must have adult ADD, or a slight onset of early senility, because they never seem to listen the first time and demand that the same information be repeated over and over again. It's a subtle thing: sometimes it's hard to distinguish it from their habitual stubbornness, chauvinism, or rudeness - in short, their total conviction that they are always right and everyone else is always wrong - that made them such strong people when I was growing up. But then it occurred to me with horror: is this the beginning of them becoming Old People? Everyone knows that Old People are difficult and unreasonable.
By the way, we went to Hana today.
Perhaps it's because I'm still pissed at the ideology of having a midnight curfew, but vactioning with my parents is becoming well-nigh unbearable. I thought I'd be able to drown it all out, but it's proving more difficult than I imagined.
I'm having one of those moments when a grown-up child has to realize that his/her parents might not be all that and a bag of chips, or at least all that they used to be. Several times today I was assaulted by the thought that my parents must have adult ADD, or a slight onset of early senility, because they never seem to listen the first time and demand that the same information be repeated over and over again. It's a subtle thing: sometimes it's hard to distinguish it from their habitual stubbornness, chauvinism, or rudeness - in short, their total conviction that they are always right and everyone else is always wrong - that made them such strong people when I was growing up. But then it occurred to me with horror: is this the beginning of them becoming Old People? Everyone knows that Old People are difficult and unreasonable.
By the way, we went to Hana today.
posted by Rex at 11:09 PM
4 Comments:
Wot??? You're in Hawaii?? You didn't tell me you were going there!!!!
How do you have Internet access?
yay! just have as much fun as you can!! remember when you missed your parents so much during the school year? anyway, i pseudo-updated, so feel free to check it out...
If I had had my own computer, I would have been able to get free wireless in the hotel room (future Maui-goers take note). Since I didn't, I went to an internet cafe, much like the kind they have in Europe.
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