No f***ing respect

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Ok, so just a little background info before I start ranting, I am 19 years old and live with my parents while attending college. Trust me, I don't plan on staying too much longer. Normally my parents and I get along decently, but recently there have been a few things that have been driving a wedge into our relationship.

This evening the rest of the family was away watching the Wyoming Cowboys get their asses kicked by Boise State at the stadium. I knew it wasn't going to end well so I went to the rental store and rented Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood to watch with my girlfriend. We came back to the house and I went to go turn on the Xbox 360 so we could watch the DVD, only to find that the controllers were nowhere to be found. Without the controllers, the most we could do was turn the system on and off and open and close the disc tray.

The last person that was playing the Xbox was my dad, and after a few minutes of searching I gave up and concluded that he must have hidden the controllers so that I couldn't use them. He's done that before, usually in response to something I may have said or done wrong. It's basically his way of grounding me from the Xbox. But what infuriated me most is that I had no idea that I wasn't being allowed to use the Xbox until I found that the controllers are missing, and I still don't know the reason why.

This pisses me off. I can understand him wanting to have some means of leverage to make sure I remain respectful and considerate, especially since I have had problems with that in the past. And he paid for the Xbox, it is his property and he has every right to deny me use of it. What pisses me off is that, if he did revoke this privilege in response to something I did wrong, i.e. not cleaning up the kitchen when I was done with it, then I still don't know what I did that he felt he needed to punish, which is total BS. The whole point of punishment is to be a negative incentive to an undesirable behavior; however, if the person being punished isn't aware of the reason WHY they are being punished, then they can't think "Something bad happened to me because I did this, so I'd better not do it again", thus negating the whole point. If he's going to take away the controllers, he should at least have the decency and the f*****g respect to tell me WHY he is taking them away.

For now I am waiting for him to come home. When he goes to the Xbox to play Borderlands, which is the game he is interested in at the moment, he's going to find an unpleasant surprise. He may have purchased the actual console, but three of the games - including Borderlands - were purchased with MY money that I earned from my job. So I decided that I am going to hide this game in my room until he at least agrees to let me know when he decides to revoke my Xbox privileges and for what reason. I am not going to put up with him disrespecting me by going behind my back like this, especially not when he forces me to show him respect regardless. Equivalent Exchange, people. Treat others as you would have them treat you.

He should at least give you a heads up, that he's taking the controlers away. He shouldn't even be doing that.

Thanks Cockney.

He should go out and bring you home a prositute

Thanks but no thanks. I've already got a girlfriend who is decently good in bed, for one, so there's really no need. Secondly, I don't deal with ladies of the night. You never know where they might have been beforehand. Rather not take that risk.

did you find out why he hid the controllers?

it really makes no sense to punish someone without telling them why. it does not work to have someone guessing what they did wrong!