Sometimes I wonder...since the age of 14 I have a had a really good relationship with my step dad and since I was born my relationship with mother has been awesome. Ever since my early teenie bopper days, I have always been able to talk to both of them with no regards to subject without any hesitation. Whether it be girl friends, school, best friends, or just general things I was going through, they have always had open ears and have never made any assumptions. But something today has made me look over the past few months and realize that they have changed in a slow way. I'm not talking about the inevitable change that all people make as they journey down each individualized road in life, which causes them to slowly shift towards the dredded aging factor, but more of a suttle annoying shift. It seems like now everytime they ask me a question or are currious about some aspect of my life, before I can even spout a response one of them already answers it for me. Ninety-nine percent of the time the answers that they speculate and voice are 180 degrees from the way things actualy are.
At first, I just kind of ignored it and corrected them. But after a few months I have noticed that my fuse with them has become shorter and shorter. Like the other night the G.F. took me out to dinner because I have been having a really stressful past couple of weeks with school. Well, before she came over I was sitting at the dinner table with my parrents and when I told them what I was doing for the night my step-father said, "Hmm, seems like she is trying to upgrade the relationship by taking you out to dinner." My immediate response to that was W.T.F.? I mean they have no clue about what level my relationship with her is at and how can they sit there and try to tell me what she is trying to do. In fact, the way I look at it is what she did was out of consideration of the past weeks, not because she wanted to get brownie points with me.
Another instance....today, I got off of work early, studied Calculus for an hour and half then went to the gym for about an hour. I then proceded to D.B.'s house for dinner with him and his parrents that lasted me maybe 45 minutes. After that I came home, sat at the computer, and worked on accounting for about three and a half hours before saying anything to anybody. Once I got done and my parrents first saw me, we proceeded to have this conversation.
Them: Where is your G.F.? Me: "I don't know..." Them: "Is something wrong? You guys broke up?" Me: "NO! We are spending ALL day tomorrow together and I needed to get a bunch of homework done before I could even relax this weekend." Them: "I just think its kind of wierd you don't know what she is doing on the weekend. You sure everything is ok?" Me: "LISTEN, if you don't know where Russ is, should I think you guys are going to get a divorce..." and at that point my step father said, "Josh! That is enough!" Me: "What!? You guys started this whole thing!!" Him: "I don't care! Leave!"
So at that point I got up, got in my car, and left....I then came back a little bit later got in the shower, and here I am now. I mean sometimes they are just annoying the crap out of me because they always assume the worst instead of asking descriptive questions and waiting for me to answer before they fill in this space with their terrible responses. Don't get me wrong, I love both of them to death, but they have just gotten really annoying recently....
Best Wishes, Joshua Price