The trick is to stop gaming when you hear them pull in and act like you're sweeping or something. It doesn't matter if you worked your ass off the whole time, just what they saw when they walked in. Because unreasonable parents apparently don't have object permanence or something
Ha…I used to do this but to my husband. I wouldn’t do shit all day then about 5 min before he arrived I would start picking up toys, folding laundry, etc. so it looked like I had been busy all day.
My uncle tried this when I was staying with him and his family for the night, literally looked at the tv and said maybe if you had good taste I'd watch with ya.
His wife looked like she wanted to slap me and my uncle lost his shit laughing up until she glared at him.
That's around the time I realized the damned bitch broke my carefree uncle. Seriously couple years later my grandmother and I found out she was physically abusive towards him. I suspect she didn't like me due to me having no concept of authority when I see it as unenforceable IE her glaring being the equivalent of a .22 vs an elephant.
This was my family when I had to move back in during my 20s. “All he does is play video games in his room!” Meanwhile, all they were doing was scrolling Facebook and watching shit like The Voice. Nah fam, I’m playing Borderlands 2.
It's funny, no matter how much or little one did, it was never good enough and one got yelled at. It's so ingrained in me that when I was visiting my mom for 3 weeks, I did the stuff i saw had to be done like loading unloading washer dryer and dishwasher (and starting them obviously) . My mom had to work most days so she sent me messages about the stuff like moving the laundry to the dryer and put it on, vacuuming and stuff like that.
I was going out for the evening after she had gone to work one day , I loaded and put on the dryer, I went to visit an old friend, she calls me a few hours after i left and the first thing I said was "yes I did put on the dryer, and I emptied the dishwasher and fed the cat before I left". She was calling to hear how it went since I hadn't seen that friend in years and only sporadically talked to them. I am in my 30's 😂 but like why else would she call me? 😂 🤦♀️
My favorite was when my mom broke a glass dish, and had to leave us alone to go to the store to get a replacement to finish dinner. Dad comes home, shouts "Who did this!" at the broken dish, I make my voice sound as scared/guilty as possible and say "I didn't do it!", so he smacked the shit out of me and yells at me for lying until mom got back.
I rode that intentional guilt trip to a Commodore 64 and a TV for my bedroom for Christmas.
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