so I went to visit my dad this weekend because my aunt and uncle are having an anniversary BBQ on Sunday and I haven't seen them/my cousins for a long time. generally speaking I don't get along with my dad so well; I mean, it's not like we are fighting all the time but we are two totally different people with totally different values so we harp on each other. That and he just wasn't there a lot growing up so I didn't form a bond with him like I did with my mom.

ANYWAY, so I arrive here after a three hour drive and everything is all hunky dory until my dad tells me I can't eat in the house. I am not shitting you - I can't eat in the house.

I'm like. Um. What? I'm not really sure if he is calling me a pig or if he suddenly developed some severe OCD over the past three years he's lived here but needless to say, I was/am kind of shocked. I tried to calmly talk to him about it but it's kind of hard to be calm when your own dad just said you're not allowed to eat. Um.

He gave me some excuse about mice - mice he had here two and a half years ago. He didn't want me to eat here because mice would get in. Uhhhh. By this time I had kind of lost my patience and tried explaining that I would clean up after myself - obviously - and that the exterminators had already been and gone and got rid of the mice. It shouldn't be a problem. Then he blew up at me.

I seriously don't understand this. Sure he told me that we would eat out but what the hell? You can't just tell your own son he can't eat in your fucking condo when you obviously eat here ALL THE TIME. There's food in your fridge so don't tell me it's just about mice.

So am I overreacting, is mice a legitimate reason not to eat in the condo, or do I have ever right to be seriously pissed off at my dad right now? I don't care that I'm only going to be here three days, I am seriously peeved. I don't like eating out all the time, just. Omg.

I call bullshit. >:|

It could be my love for food, but srsly. You could eat on the porch? Lmao, if you don't mind looking like a creeper. Food is worth it tho.

It seems he may have a problem with your food preperation habits. Maybe you make a huge mess? But isn't that, I dunno, rude to tell somebody they can't eat inside? It's like telling them they can't breathe!

I'd make food in his condo just to see what would happen :P

what the

do it anyway >:U

I do have the habit of occasionally leaving dishes out until I go to bed at home, but I absolutely NEVER do that in someone else's house. I am so conscious about that kind of thing it isn't funny. Though he is my dad so I do have a feeling that's probably what he is trying to say.

Still fucking pisses me off.

You have the right to be pissed.

yeah, i'm kind of confused. did he not want you eating around him AT ALL or just his food or only in the house, wtf.

it sounds like youre overreacting but at a "last straw" kind of thing. cause that's just too weird.

when you go out to eat bring home leftovers ~

like... he doesn't want me to eat here at all, to my understanding. Eating out (around him) is perfectly fine, but not here. so idgi?

Huh. I wonder if it's a problem with you eating the food he has because he doesn't want someone touching his food, or maybe he's scared you won't like it, or.. I really don't know, man. That sucks, though. If worse comes to worst, just eat outside, I guess... or confront your dad about it in a calm way and ask if it's your eating habits that bother him.