Ten Things I Wish My Mother Wouldn't Say

1. "How do you know Northwestern is a good school?"
2. "You're going out AGAIN? But you went out three days ago!"
3. "Well, fine, just go. Leave."
4. "That shirt is too SHOWY."
5. "Yale! Yale! Yale!" (not a direct quote)
6. "Do you WANT to go to UGA?"
7. "Instead of checking your email, why don't you clean your room?"
8. "Asians are smart."
9. "You have to use your weekends to do work."
10. "Don't try to teach me. I'm your mother."

She makes me...so angry sometimes. We can, I guess, partly attribute her worst moments to being in a bad mood after work. But she just doesn't realize that those moments actually matter to us-- in fact, they're the most distinct-- the times she comes home and picks a fight with anyone who dares speak to her. I hate that she brings up my old offenses in our new arguments. I hate that she thinks the only schools worth going to are the six that she's heard of. I hate that she never, never, never admits to being wrong. I hate that any opinion of mine that contradicts some flimsy wisdom she picked up twenty years ago is automatically not only wrong, but stupid and offensive, disrespectful to her status as Mother.