FREEDOM

[Clang McFly]

Did you have much freedom as a kid/young person? Were your parents strict?

Yes. My youngest brother went away to college in Cobleskill and he told my mom he would be back to his dorm room from hanging out with friends at a certain time and would give her a call when he got back. Well he got talking with them and lost track of time and my mom actually called the campus security dispatcher. When he got back to his room campus security was waiting and told him to call his mom and to tell his mom never to call the dispatcher again.

I was smart and only called her once a week, leaving the day and time vague enough that she never bothered campus security.

She did get more lenient and let me be more independent as I got older, but the damage was done, besides cooking and laundry and writing a check, I was clueless on important stuff like riding a bike, dating/sex, budgeting my money, etc.

In a sort of cosmic karma payback we did end up kind of taking advantage of her kindness (like when we had no jobs, but went out to Golden Corral on mom and dad's dime while they ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches).

But about a year before she died I got my act together and got a job with Price Chopper, and then a year later a job with the NYS DMV.

So even if your parents are a bit overbearing, don't worry it will all work out in the end.