• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    On my 18th birthday I wanted to go out and spend the day with friends. My parents said they didn’t want me to and they wanted me to stay home. I said I was 18 and an adult and I wanted to spend my birthday out with my friends.

    I leave and enjoy a few hours until I get a phone call from my dad. He says “Come home immediately, there’s been a huge accident with mom and your youngest brother. We need you home ASAP”.

    I rush home in a panic, spent an hour on the way home preparing myself for the possibility that half my family had died.

    Only to find out that he had “played a joke on me” to get me to come home as a power move. No accident. No ambulance, no injuries.

    “You think you’re an adult but I will ALWAYS be in charge of you” was what he said.

    I’m 30 now and haven’t spoken to him in over a decade. I don’t think much about him since he’s pathetic, but when I do, I imagine that he’s rotting alone and unable to manipulate other peoples physchology and emotions 🙂