You're as whiny as Anakin Skywalker, only without the Jedi powers. Wax on, wax off my son.

This, and you should really take her letter seriously; if she didn't care, she wouldn't have bothered to write it at all.

Personally I'd love to get a letter like this...I need to learn most of what was on that list, and a bit more (like responsibility lul).

I'm sorry, but I have to side with Nerdy on this one. These things are learnable solo, or, at worst, googleable. Not a real gift.

However, maybe your parents are having financial troubles with this crisis, so they came up with this. Betta' then nothing.

At least they didnt tell you to go masturbate...else you'd really be complaining.

LMAO YOU CAN'T COOK?!
Poor loser.


Anyway, I'd actually be really grateful if someone had taught me to cook as well as a mom, instead, I learnt the hard way
I stand with everyone else, you have to appreciate that your mom cares about you and wants to prepare you for when you leave them. Just because you like to predent that those things are easy to just learn them in 5 minutes doesn't really make them that way.

Great gift, but not for your birthday.

Yea... did you get the letter in an envelope? check it for some cash. Maybe it's taped to the back?

I love you, Doodan.

I'M TELLING YOUR GF!!!

These are basic life skills that I'm surprised you haven't picked up by now, and sure it's easy, but knowing how to use Email is easy too, doesn't mean my Grandma is going to ever do it, if it's so easy, then take the 10 minutes and learn it.

Which one?

I learned this shit when I was 14 and my mom broke her arm, and then I had to do fucking everything when she tore her ACL, MCL, the miniscus, and plateau fractured her leg.

Made me totally respect what my mom did for me.

If you wave money in front of a salesman's face, he will want all of it.

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Which one?

Win

This basically sums up how I feel about it.


Yeah, I got a car last year when I got my license, and then another one more recently (couple months back). Besides gas there haven't really been any recurring costs, yet. Car maintenance is one of the ones I could actually get behind (my brother has some things in mind besides just maintenance ). I've done my own laundry, and am quite capable, I just don't really like to. Of course, if the choice were to do laundry or wear dirty clothes I'd go do the laundry, though.


Well, those are the two more difficult ones, and the two that she has the least focus on.


She cares in an unproductive manner


Well, if that were the case, I could totally understand the situation (although I still would rather just be told instead of it being a 'gift'). However, both of my parents are pretty well off doctors, so we're doing pretty well.


I can cook simple guy stuff


Nope, that was the whole thing


Most of the skills on there I do actually know how to do. She seems to think that since I don't do it, I can't. The point is that I don't really want to put the time into doing it, even 10 minutes. However, if she decided she didn't want to do my stuff for me, then I would have to, and that would be acceptable. But, it was her manner of presentation that really annoyed me. Trying to pass off daily chores as a gift? Come on.

In the time you've spent in/on this thread, you could've learned several of these skills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_insurance

Psh, I drive uninsured. Alright, so there's one more recurring cost. Although, that's on my father's end, and this letter was from my mother. They're divorced and don't always necessarily work together (in terms of me).

Hey I havent gotten a birthday present in 5 years, and Im about to be 19, thats like...800 dollars of videogames I could have. Or a computer that actually could run a game that was made in 2001 <_<

There's a different between not getting a present, and getting a present that is negative.