Is 17 too young or not?
It seems that it would depend on who you asked this question to. My parents seems to think that 17 is too young to stay home alone on Spring Break. Not that they won't end up letting me do it anyways but just that I'm too young to handle it. I disagree I've stayed home alone many times and nothing has ever gone wrong. Even on the off chance that something had gone wrong various members of extended family and friends live near enough to come to my rescue. What makes a week different from 4 days? It is only 3 days longer and I'll do the same things I do while always home alone. So why the hesitation?
Because apparently at 17 you are old enough to drive past midnight and to graduate, and like me, even enter college. You are old enough to do so many things but apparently staying home alone over Spring Break is too much to ask from my parents. It isn't even like they are going someplace fun that I would even remotely want to go. They are going to Virginia so that my brothers can surf and they can go see some people that my parents used to know.
My dad is being resonable about the whole staying home situation and keeps telling my mom that I would be ok. But my mom seems to think that I'm like going to run away to Europe or something (which I don't have the resources to pull off by the way). And everytime I bring it up she always asks why I'm pushing so hard to stay home. "hmm...mom i don't know because I don't want to go!!!!" But in her mind she honestly thinks that I'm going to throw a rave. But then I point out that I don't have enough money to buy the keg. Which I think is funny but apparently she doesn't find amusing. Then she brings up that I could go anywhere I want and they would never know, at which point I remind her that I offered to let her take my keys with them on vacation so therefore I wouldn't be able to go anywhere unless I called my aunt to come get me. But apparently that was a bad idea too.
I just don't understand how they can expect me to go off to college in the fall and live without them (for much more than a week) but I can't stay home for a week by myself. Even though most likely there would be someone there with me pretty much everynight.
I don't know what else I can offer up to get her to see it my way. I don't find riding for 14 + hours in a car with my brothers fighting each other and my parents fighting over directions just to go spend a week with some people that I haven't seen since I was 6.
Any ideas?
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