Again...

Mom is angry with me... AGAIN.

It all started with a phone call this afternoon with her trying to get me to sign up for a new plan and getting one of the 3G phones.
You see, the promotion is such that you buy a phone and you get another free.
She wanted me to spend over $250 to get that phone and give her the other.

Honestly, I think its fine.
BUT
I'm saving up for lots.
I get the same amount of pocket money as my YOUNGER bro and I pay my own way about.
So, $250, is not small a sum.

I politely reasoned that we could split the cost of the phone.
She got mad at that.
I mean, come on!

It's such a silly thing to get mad over.
Now it's basically weird because she'll be waiting for me to go apologise, which I'm currently refusing to do.
I don't see where I went wrong.
Honest.

Stiff huffing a little over it because she got Dad to talk to me about it.
To spare him from having to shuttle between us, I used my poker-face.

Why do so many teenagers have issues with their parents?
I understand the whole 'trying to be their own boss' part, but when we become parents, do you think we'll be the same way?

Raising a kid is not easy.
You have to be really flexible and patient.
I think my parents are too old school, the whole Confucius-era thing where the parent is always right and where children don't get rewarded for being good because it's simply expected of them.

What to do?

V-day tomorrow!
Going out with the girls!
Wonder what kind of trouble we'll be able to get ourselves into...
Cheers!