It's that time of season now... FUCK!

[Thatotherguy]

You can't possibly be the only brown guy on this board. Yet nobody seems to be empathizing with you.

That's probably because regardless of the culture, nobody likes an ungrateful whiny little bitch.

 

[Thelyhi]

I always hated when baby strollers mom need to board the bus when it's full and 5-6people need to move away. Or worse when 2 or more baby strollers at the same bus route. That's Spring for yah.
Cutting grass too.

 

[Kevin101]

Kevin, you joined in Feb 2009 and you already have more posts than me.
I salute!



You can't possibly be the only brown guy on this board. Yet nobody seems to be empathizing with you. I understand you don't want to mow the lawn and I agree it's not the only way to show appreciation for what your parents do for you. I am sure you'll either do something for them when you are all settled or you'd do as much for your own kids and keep the tradition going or both. That said, whining about it as if it's the biggest problem won't really help with anything. I think you have whined enough (of course, my definition of 'enough' may be lot different than yours), you can now stop defending and explaining how 'East Indian' families are so much different from other cultures because regardless of the differences in culture it's easy to recognize when the whining is genuine.

I'm already doing something for them and that is going to post-seconary. I never liked school but I always my job of the deal. During the summer I told my parents I wasn't going to go to school and of course they didn't agree with the desicion. In August I finally decided that I will go to school for only two years and they accepeted it.

I don't know where you guys read I'm whinning or anything or how it got escalted into this. All I ever said was that I hated it but I still do the task. I just asked if anyone else on the board has to deal with it.

 

[HB40]

I'm already doing something for them and that is going to post-seconary. I never liked school but I always my job of the deal. During the summer I told my parents I wasn't going to go to school and of course they didn't agree with the desicion. In August I finally decided that I will go to school for only two years and they accepeted it.

I don't know where you guys read I'm whinning or anything or how it got escalted into this. All I ever said was that I hated it but I still do the task. I just asked if anyone else on the board has to deal with it.

OK, first of all, it may not seem like it now but going to school is actually doing something for yourself, it's alright to be a little selfish....you can't think of your parents benefit all the time.

And as for the whining, you might want to re-read the highlighted portions. Everything seems so shitty when you're doing it for someone esle. Once you grow up you might get a yard all your own, when you start whining about the neighbours dog shit and the kids playing on your lawn then it will be gay.

Just think, one day you might have kids and then they can do all the shitty jobs you hate doing.

Yep, I get stuck cutting the grass and have to clean the weeds from the garden. Holly fuck it is gay as hell. Just spent like 4hrs out there doing all that shit. Last year was gay and I know this year will be even more brutal.

It's such a bitch because my dad fertilizes the grass like it's some kind of a gold mine which makes the grass grow like a foot a day. Last year I had to cut the grass every 3-4 days! MAAAAAAAAAAAAN.

Anyone else have to experience the same bullshit that I have to go through?

 

[Kevin101]

OK, first of all, it may not seem like it now but going to school is actually doing something for yourself, it's alright to be a little selfish....you can't think of your parents benefit all the time.

And as for the whining, you might want to re-read the highlighted portions. Everything seems so shitty when you're doing it for someone esle. Once you grow up you might get a yard all your own, when you start whining about the neighbours dog shit and the kids playing on your lawn then it will be gay.

Just think, one day you might have kids and then they can do all the shitty jobs you hate doing.

Thats a possibility, doubt it. I would rather let them dotheir thing though. Still got a lot of years before that time comes though so that thought could change. I understand that education is important now but back then I just didn't give a fuck! seriously I was so happy that I graded and I just had enough of school. Just wanted to start making some phat cash.

The whining... if that was whining to you well, those were my expressions of the whole situation.

And as far as the kids playing on the grass etc... Kids will be kids.

 

[Kevin101]

I'm making an assumption here that you are of legal age.
Therefore, everything that you "have" to do ultimately comes down to choice.
You could CHOOSE to not do yardwork, most effectively by gathering your balls and living independently.
You could CHOOSE to quit school and get a job instead. Your parents aren't going to stone you, or throw acid on you if you quit school. They're just gonna kick you out and stop paying for your life. Which is understandable. When your PARENT continues to pay for you and your life past the age of adulthood, you make the CHOICE to accept the conditions that come along with it.

Regardless of your nationality and the customs that come with it, you live in Canada now, and are given the right of personal independence upon the age of majority. It's your choice to exercise that right or not. At the end of the day, it all falls back on you, and that's why you've been met with such resistance here on the board. You're complaining about something that you can very easily change yourself. Also, most pooners tend to be a little older than say, what, 23 at the very most?

I'm probably the youngest here but yeah I'm still of legal age. Yes you are right it is all about the choices I make because at the end of the day it is me. I am ready to move out and live by myself but my mom doesn't think so. Which is fucking stupid because I hate when she does shit like that. Yea I do realise she is looking out for me but she also has to realie that I am not her "baby boy" anymore. Why I am telling you this I have no Idea but Im not man enough to say it to her face. I'm weak like that. If you were to ask my friends and family how I am, they will all say I have a big heart! and he is weak and doesn't say shit like that to peoples faces.

 

[Kevin101]

Then ultimately you have a choice, man up, or quitcherbitchen.
I'm 22, I could live at home and have my laundry done, meals prepared, house cleaned and all that jazz. However, I'd also be living with my parents, and I'd have to sacrifice a lot of the independence I do have. I'd have to check in, be home at certain times and have the strictness of a basic teenager. For over a year (I had been living with an SO, and that ended so I moved back) I had to sacrifice my independence and what not after having it for 3 years. I finally got sick of it, and found my own apartment. Life is just peaches now, even though I have to clean it all myself, do my own dishes, finance my rent and any spending habits I do have.

As far as your mom is concerned, I could see how she could think you're not ready. The part time job you DO have pays 9.50/hr which gets you fuck all in the real world. Forget pooning, you'll have to find the food bank. Not to mention your complaining about a somewhat easy responsibility. In the grand scheme of things, it's really not all that bad, and your dad is probably trying to teach you some responsibility and pride in your home with it.
Also, at least you're not in Alberta where sometimes you have to shovel the walk more than once a day in minus 40 weather....we welcome cutting the grass here

Well you make very good points. I don't mind cleaning up after myself. I've been doing that since I was like 7. I got all the panners and stuff, just a bad mouth(swearing and stuff like that). Yes I hate the check in, call me when u get there, be back at this time too. it gets frustrating sometimes because where I live the crime there is like slim to none.

As for the job, like I said I could go out and getter a better job, more hours and thats pays me. I like this job right now because I go to uni so it's enough to pay for some stuff and it works great around my school schedual.

 

[HB40]

When you spew idiocy like that its clear your parents are wasting their money by putting you through school.

I thought that just going by his poor grammar and spelling. Pretty sure he failed social studies too.

 

[Kevin101]

I thought that just going by his poor grammar and spelling. Pretty sure he failed social studies too.

Actually I did pretty well in that class.

It's the internet/forums. Why are people getting angry if people post with grammer errors and or spelling mistakes? The message of the post still gets sent out regardless with spelling mistakes or not.

Obviously I would spend more time reviewing and editing when it comes to writting essays and answering questions for school...

 

[magicmystery]

Actually I did pretty well in that class.

It's the internet/forums. Why are people getting angry if people post with grammer errors and or spelling mistakes? The message of the post still gets sent out regardless with spelling mistakes or not.

Obviously I would spend more time reviewing and editing when it comes to writting essays and answering questions for school...

General expectation is that a college student would have basic vocabulary and would be able to spell simple (high-school level or lower) words and write a coherent post without having to review it like it was a college-level essay.

 

[hapkido]

Sorry to interupt but Kev can you introduce me to some hot bollywood type girls?

 

[Kevin101]

General expectation is that a college student would have basic vocabulary and would be able to spell simple (high-school level or lower) words and write a coherent post without having to review it like it was a college-level essay.

Has anyone told you that a complete sentence only has one thought not two? meaning there should only be one "and" in a sentence not two.

Hapkido,
I don't watch those type of movies, so I won't be able to introduce you to any bollywood girls. Lol.

 

[magicmystery]

Has anyone told you that a complete sentence only has one thought not two? meaning there should only be one "and" in a sentence not two.

Was that hard? I mean, didn't you intuitively catch that mistake? That's how others on this board catch multiple grammatical and/or spelling errors in your post.

That said, you are not completely right. In English language a sentence can have more than one thought. Though I agree that I should have used a 'comma' instead of first 'and'.

 

[hunsperger]

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Was that hard? I mean, didn't you intuitively catch that mistake? That's how others on this board catch multiple grammatical and/or spelling errors in your post.

That said, you are not completely right. In English language a sentence can have more than one thought. Though I agree that I should have used a 'comma' instead of first 'and'.

Magic, just ignore the inane blathering...

the only language that matters is mathematics...

 

[Inamorato]

I am not her "baby boy" anymore.

Sorry to break it to you, but yes you are.

I am ready to move out and live by myself but my mom doesn't think so.

I hate when she does shit like that.

Im not man enough to say it to her face. I'm weak like that.

 

[moi]

Well you make very good points. I don't mind cleaning up after myself. I've been doing that since I was like 7. I got all the panners and stuff, just a bad mouth(swearing and stuff like that). Yes I hate the check in, call me when u get there, be back at this time too. it gets frustrating sometimes because where I live the crime there is like slim to none.

You'll miss it when they're dead and gone. Everything you've said so far mirrors that of my family and relatives as well, and IM A GIRL so it's WORSE.

Like I said before, appreciate it while it's still there because you wouldn't want to be on the other side of the fence. I had friends in high school who got to do whatever they wanted because their parents just "let them do their own thing." They dropped out of school, and I believe some of them are in jail now, the others don't have a "career" because they only have, at the MOST, a high school grad. Meanwhile, I was whining because my parents made me go to tutoring and piano classes.

Especially during the recession, the BEST thing you could be doing right now is going to school.

 

[magicmystery]

the only language that matters is mathematics...

Amen! Amen!

 

[liveforthefunk]

Thats a possibility, doubt it. I would rather let them dotheir thing though. Still got a lot of years before that time comes though so that thought could change. I understand that education is important now but back then I just didn't give a fuck! seriously I was so happy that I graded and I just had enough of school. Just wanted to start making some phat cash.

The whining... if that was whining to you well, those were my expressions of the whole situation.

And as far as the kids playing on the grass etc... Kids will be kids.

LOL, how the fuck did you plan on making 'phat cash' right out of highschool?

I'm a brown kid myself and I know how you feel to an extent. Luckily we have gardener to cut the grass but I still had/have many responsibilities in my house. I go to University full-time, I run my own business, and I run my dads local businesses when hes out of the city on business. Its a lot of responsibility for somebody my age but it's a great learning experience and I wouldn't have it any other way.

My parents were also strict while I was growing up and I HATED it at the time. While my friends were getting drunk every weekend in grade 9, I was at home studying and doing homework. All through out highschool my parents always kept track of me and where I was, what i was doing and when i would be home and It definitely prevented me from doing stupid things like some of my friends. At the time i HATED it and thought my parents were just being assholes. Needless to say, a lot of my friends did not graduate highschool and maybe 1 or 2 of them continued on to post secondary.

Now I look at some of these guys and they are all working 9-5's and hate their jobs. They dont have many options. All of them drink almost EVERY night, which is not a good sign at the age of 20. I think drinking every weekend at such an early age is what started them on this path to drinking every night. I can, and usually do, go for months at a time without drinking and I like it like that. When you're young making $15-$18/hr sounds like 'phat cash' but when you're 40 with a family and youve hit a ceiling of $25/hr it wont be 'phat' at all and you'll regret not going to school. Now im not saying its impossible to make good money without school, but its definitely easier.

Now that ive showed my parents im responsible and trustworthy they give me pretty much anything I like. I live at home, have a million dollars worth of cars and toys, and a condo in Cali and Mumbai (also like you my parents wont let me move yet haha, but they're for vacationing+investments) They invested their time and efforts in me, and it paid off.


I didnt mean for this to become so long haha. Ill summarize it by saying; listen to your parents, dont worry about making 'phat cash' yet because it will come and you'll be a lot more happy while having your highschool friends pump your gas.

 

[magicmystery]

What cracks me up though is that Kevin claims he is not whining.

Ill summarize it by saying; listen to your parents, dont worry about making 'phat cash' yet because it will come and you'll be a lot more happy while having your highschool friends pump your gas.

Insightful. I wonder if Kevin has something to say now. With you, he obviously can not use his favorite line about how brown/East Indian culture is different from non-East Indian culture.