While other kids have candy for breakfast, we have cereal, eggs and toast.
When others had a Pepsi and Twinkie for lunch, we had rice and meat. And you can guess our mother fixed us a dinner that was different from other kids too.
Mother insisted on knowing where we were at all times. You’d think that we’re convicts in a prison. She had to know who our friends were, and what we were doing with them.
She always insisted on us saying the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. By the time we hit ten years old, she could read our minds.
Then, life was really tough. We couldn’t just go to our friends house when they honked the car horn outside. We had to make sure every single thing was communicated through our parents, and our friends had to come up to the door so she could meet them.
While everyone else could date when they were 12 or 13, we had to wait for a really long time.
Because of our mother, we missed out on a lot of things other kids experienced. None of us has ever been caught shoplifting, vandalizing other’s property, or ever arrested for any other crime.
It’s all her fault.