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?
3 comments:
well my parents have been less strict after I got my job and worked a few years but some rules stay in place like:
1. For females, no probs, as long as they dont come into the house dressed like the Spice girls or PCD :P
2. Boys? They gotta be my dad's friends' sons (we all went to the same high school, lol!),or sons of respectable people, former classmates, work mates, etc. My cousins never make it to this list because, well, my dad doesn't like them.
well my parents have been less strict after I got my job and worked a few years but some rules stay in place like:
1. For females, no probs, as long as they dont come into the house dressed like the Spice girls or PCD :P
2. Boys? They gotta be my dad's friends' sons (we all went to the same high school, lol!),or sons of respectable people, former classmates, work mates, etc. My cousins never make it to this list because, well, my dad doesn't like them.
coralbead:
Yeah, it's funny how much more "freedom" we get once we start working. Nowadays, I can drag most anyone into my parents house, as long as we stay in the living room. I'm thinking of pushing the envelope: who do you think they'll allow me to drag into my bedroom? LOL, to hang out, that is.
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