You have GOT to be kidding me.

Post Reply New Topic

Im going to write in a different style this post to fit the mood

If you don't want to read the entire story,i can sum it up by "my mom was being rude because i got sick. Thanks for your compassion, mother."

Im assuming that in multiple points during your childhood you have gotten sick on a day where you were supposed to arrive at school. It has happened to me multiple times, and i usually enjoy it more than being stuck in a classroom learning things i taught myself ages ago. Besides, it gives me time to lay down and contemplate. Today, however, was quite different than the average day for a 12 yr old who isn't feeling well.

I woke up at 5:00AM to read some fanfiction when i realised that my stomach had this pain residing in it. I shrugged it off, but it got a bit worse. Now, knowing myself, i usually get a stomach ache everyday around 7:50, when im about to be driven to school, due to worry or feeling nervous. No big deal. However, this was 5:00, my down time, and i shouldn't be in any discomfort, let alone more than usual. This bothered me. It starting annoying me more and then it hit me. I can't go to school today. Because when i get a bad stomach ache, it hurts like freaking crazy all day and school usually dosen't go well. So i faked a cough. Simple enough, and a cough alone won't convince my mother to let me stay home, it was just a helpful factor in convinving her. I continued with the realistic sounding cough, operating on a ratio of 3:2, meaning 3 coughs per 2 every minutes, one of them being loud, one short, and one..well...i just threw that in wherever in seemed legitamately believeable.

My mom got me out of my room at 7:00 to take a shower, which i did. I continued the coughing. But lowered the ratio to about 1:2. I'm not sure if she even cared, but it was worth i shot. I got out at about 7:20 ( i take lengthy showers). She did notice the coughs, i made sure of that. She gave me some unpalatable cough medicine, which i did in fact take (much to my taste buds' dismay) because the coughs did become real near the end of the shower, oddly enough. After about 3 minutes of laying on the couch i doubled over in pain. The stomach pains got to a point where it was absolutely agonizing. it literally felt like the inside of my stomach was burning, like nausea was a victim of arson. Something similar to an acid reflux, but not quite that. Tears derived feom pure pain treaded down my cheaks, then my mom walked in, completely oblivious to the the situation, and told me to get up and do whatever, i honestly wasn't listening. I tried to describe the pain, and she ignored me and told me to get up, despite my wailing. I knew i would probally vomit basically everywhere if i did. So i went to the toilet and end of story. Im assuming none of you nead a detailed explanation of what went on in that situation.

After that occured my mom starting whining about "you can't be sick today i gots to take missy (the daughter which they admittedly favor over me) to the doctors and check on her whatever" That ticked me off in countless ways, and if it were possible you would literally see fumes come out of my ears. Oh, how could i not remember my constant, yet ignored, complaits of blurry vision? I was not learning a single thing in class (not that i would be either way, i knew everything in those classes, did they think we were 4? )Because i sat in the back and couldn't view a single letter sprawled on the board. Nope, why care though. But you get a single suspicion about missy, you get all these tests done and crap. Anyway,out of that thought process, She asked me how i felt and i replied that "it still burns a lot, but most of the nausea is gone. So she says "oh so you can go to school then!" First off, if missy even has a fever you are all comforting, and it's against school rule. And i was obviously still suffering, so why send me to school and make it worse? Absolutely stunning how unfit she is for the job of a mother, even after 12 years.

Anyway, she then had the audacity to try to MAKE me go to my sister's appointment, despite the possibility of me being contagious and forcing other's to experience it, and ignoring the fact that i could get sick again. Also, i have proved on multiple occasions that i am capable of staying home alone her repetitively, and she then called asking if i could come. I didn't have a phone within my reach, but i do know that she rescheduled and then hung up. She comes up to my room, tosses me blanket (so i wont get sick on my regular one) then ignores me for the rest of the day. Never checked on me. Not once.

How did your parents react when you were sick? Not like that, i presume.

Kid, if you are 12yo and writing like this, you need to be in school everyday you can. Take every literature class, every English Composition class, anything to do with writing, you need to zone in on. You have a gift here, and it needs to be dialed in.

One day in tenth grade, I had woken up early (4am) feeling nauseous and promptly vomited on my bedcovers. I cleaned it up and then sat by the toilet until the nausea had subsided a bit. Then I went downstairs to tell my mom I was sick and not to wake me for school. Next, I grabbed a large bowl and brought it upstairs with me, as is customary in my family when someone is sick, in case I had to vomit again.
I fell back asleep only to be woken a couple hours later by my mom banging on my door then coming in and shaking me to get me up. I reminded her I was sick and gestured to the bowl next to my bed. I hadn't needed it again so it was clean. Seeing it was empty, she decided I wasn't really sick and ought to go to school, completely ignoring my bedcover which still had traces of vomit on it because I hadn't put it in the wash yet. I reiterated that I was too sick for school but she wouldn't hear it. I had to lock myself in my bathroom so she couldn't drag me outside and force me to go to school. During the approximately 30 minutes she spent trying to open the bathroom door, I had vomited again (into the toilet). By this point, I was crying because I already didn't feel well and she kept yelling at me to get ready for school which just made it worse. Finally, she had to leave so she wouldn't be late for work but she made sure I'd be miserable at home by taking away my iPod and even disconnecting the cable so I wouldn't have any entertainment.

I don't understand what you mean. The OP's writing is actually quite bad. The range of vocabulary used is nothing special. The spelling is mostly fine, but the punctuation is appalling.

The OP does not capitalise the pronoun "I" and does not use an apostrophe with most contractions. Words such as "I'm" or "don't" require apostrophes. When I was twelve years old, I knew that.

If the OP doesn't know those basic things yet, then I agree with you: s/he needs to be in school!

But it was very evocative. Technicality is not everything, that he can learn.

I don't know if it was evocative or not, because when I read something that's badly punctuated, the mistakes distract me so much that my brain can't absorb the content. Hence, I don't really know what the OP said.

I wasn't really paying attention to the mistakes (maybe because I saw that he was 12 so I was giving him a break). But it totally reminded me of when I used to pretend to have a cough to try to get out of school.

I know that fine . I knew that well before anyone in my class, and im not typing on a computer, I'm using an ipad. If you have ever used one you know it is pretty annoying to type on. Also, i have never made a idiotic mistake like that in class.

The vocabulary I used was not intended to be good . I'm just jotting down thoughts quickly. I AM RANTING. This is not an essay, if it were, it would have been 100% accurate and would have sounded 10X better. I also mentioned at the top that i was writing in a different style than usual, I USUALLY WRITE LOT BETTER. Do you honestly have nothing better to do than insult a twelve year old kid? THIS IS THE INTERNET NOT SCHOOL.

I apologize for yelling, I'm in a bad mood. I am girl, btw.

I am very sorry if I have hurt your feelings. I have noticed too late that this thread was posted in "the Haven." At the time I did not notice that, so I didn't realise this was a ranting / venting / feeling upset sort of thread. The thread just turned up in the list of new posts, and I happened to click on it without noticing that it was in the Haven and was probably an emotionally charged thread. I am sorry.

I did not insult you. I apologise if I hurt your feelings by pointing out the mistakes, but none of my comments were insulting and none of them were even addressed to you. I was merely talking to another user and expressing my puzzlement at a comment they had made, that's all.

What happened was that another user had commented complimenting you on your writing, and I was extremely puzzled by what they said, because I had noticed your writing had some mistakes in it. So I had one of those situations where you ask yourself: "Am I going mad, or did the other person accidentally reply to the wrong thread? This doesn't make sense."

I was very confused by the other user's comment, so I replied to it asking why they considered your writing to be good, that's all. It was not intended to insult you or offend you in any way. I was just trying to understand what was going on.

Nothing more annoying than when you write something important to you and a grammar nazi ignores everything you said to point out some grammar flaws.

Write more, you're good!
Hehe, I used to want to get out of school so bad, I'd stick my face in the snow for as long as I could to try to make myself get a cough, but it never worked so I'd have to fake it like you.
But the fact that you got a couple of people to tell their stories like that is indicative of how good it was.

Haha, i completely understand. You had every right to comment, i notice bad grammar all the time and actually was being pretty hypocritical.

You didn't insult me at all, in fact, thank you for the constuctive critism, i always want improve. :3

I was in a really bad mood, its not like i care about my writing or your comment, i just unfairly decided to take my anger out on you. Sorry about that ^^;

First of all, I am not a Nazi. Calling someone a Nazi when they are not one is highly offensive. I am not someone who thinks that all Jews should be exterminated or thrown into concentration camps, and there is no basis for you to make that assumption, so please retract that unfounded insult.

Secondly, even if an obsession with good grammar had anything remotely to do with any connection to the Nazi movement (which it doesn't), my comment was not even about grammar at all. It was about punctuation.

Thirdly, I did not jump into the thread soley to criticise the OP's punctuation. If I jumped into every thread where I saw bad punctuation to make a comment, I'd be here all day long commenting on practically every thread. Personally I have a policy not to criticise other people's writing too much, as I think it's rude. Some people may write badly due to having received a poor education, being dyslexic, or simply not being as bothered about good writing as other people are. So I do not normally make comments if I see other people writing badly. Also, my own writing is not always perfect either, so criticising others too much would be hypocritical.

As I have already explained, I merely made a comment because I had become confused by another user's comment that the OP's writing was good. To me, the writing seemed bad, so I became very confused and wondered if I was going mad. I just wanted to understand the other user's comment on the badly punctuated text that had been referred to as "good" writing. That's all.

Wozaree is talking about her "writing".

Thumbhole is talking about her "stenography", and not about her writing.

This is a social website. Not a file for resumes, or for even for term papers. Everyone here skips the apostrophe's on "dont" to save time because the writing here is informal. We all know better, but dont care.

'The White Rabbit', do you know about commas? They appear within sentences where one would naturally expect there to be a pause, the meaning of the message expressed gaining added clarity when they are used the way they should be.