Friends Hanging Out
One of the best things in life is hanging out at home with friends, wasting time, contemplating the future, reflecting on how much time you're wasting, and more wasting time.
It's just not as easy to do that with Maranao parents. Unless:
a) your circle of heterogeneous friends consists mainly of close relatives: cousins, uncles/aunts-of-the-same-age, et al.
b) you don't live with your Maranao parents and they don't know what's going on (and assuming of course that your nosy neighbor isn't a snitch).
c) you have an all-girl or all-boy circle of friends.
d) your parents are one of those "hippy, open-minded, 70s" lot.
Otherwise, you don't hang out at home. You meet your friends out and go elsewhere to waste time.
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In my parents' home, however, they are okay with my guy friends hanging out as long as:
a) they are married and they come over with their wives.
b) they are engaged to be married and they come over with their fiancees.
c) they are fake-engaged and their fake-fiancees are not able to make it.
d) my parents know their parents.
e) I know them through some academic context.
f) they can take my father's history trivia, and answer his trick questions.
They're pretty cool, my old folks.
What are your (or your parents') house rules on this?
