Yesterday my parents attempted to insult me.
Kat, whom I've been friends with for the past 8 or 9 years (more or less), has never been welcomed into my house. In '97, we invited her to go with me, Jacob, mum, and dad to Emerald Isle, off the coast of NC. Not only was our privacy continually invaded by the then 6 year old, my parents annoyance with her at every little turn grew over each passing day. By the time we got home, dad decided Kat was a "bad influence on me" and forbade me to see her. Not that that would happen; we both went to the same church and saw each other every Sunday and Wednesday. And whenever my family has gone on vacations over the years, I've always asked if Kat could come with us, but their response was always a resounding "Who do you think you are?! Never!" So Jacob would often invite his neighborhood friends, and my parents would never discriminate over his choice of friends. But my father, especially, has always been very, shall we say "apprehensive," about my friendship with Kat, and has never gotten over the fact Kat and I wouldn't let Jacob into our bedroom that we shared during the trip in NC.
So back to the insult part.
Yesterday, after I got home from work, mum starts to complain about how I never spend any time with Jacob - I don't help him with schoolwork (he never wants me to when I've asked), I never play videogames with him (he won't bother explaining his football game to me, so I don't bother being defeated), and various other failures on my role as a sister. And I won't say she's completely wrong - I have been ignoring him, but usually whenever we're both home, I'm doing schoolwork and he's with friends, or he's calling me any other word but my given name because I'm doing schoolwork, and thus using the phone line so he can't call his friends.
And here's the catch: Mum finally says, "Kat spends more time and has a better relationship with Jacob than you. She's a better sister to Jacob than you are, and she only sees him on Tuesday mornings!" (now, on tuesday morns, Mum has her Bible study group at church, and Kat is there with her mum, so she helps Jacob and several other homeschooled kids with their schoolwork.)
I reported all this back to Kat this morning in service, and she starts to laugh, then amusingly asks me why I told her during the service, she's laughing so hard.
Ahh, the strange behaviours of us humans.
Posted by everythinguarent at October 19, 2003 05:54 PM