While reading a post in Her Campus about the perks of being at home for the summer, I realized that although it is always refreshing to be back at  home with the fam, there are just as many disadvantages as their are advantages.

There are the obvious gains such as home cooked meals, privacy, household pets, old friends, and free laundry, which we all know is great, but what we fail to remember when looking forward to a temporary hometown vacation is the fact that majority of us still have rules. We think just because we’re out of high school and living life that maybe we’ll get treated like it…HA, we thought wrong.

Rule #1. Curfew

“FUNNY JOKE, MOM. I’ve been in college for two years now, partying until 4 a.m. every weekend, half of those weekends not even ending up in my own bed, and you’re REALLY going to make me come home at 12:30 tonight?”

If I had a dollar for every time I heard that one come out of the mouths of my high school friends, I’d be one rich little girl. Unfortunately, our parents still assume that we’re all still  innocent 16 year olds (although we weren’t even innocent then but whatevs) who come home early and don’t get too drunk, unfortunately they’re wrong. Unless you’re triple majoring in  biomedical engineering, business, and architecture, or you’re just really strange, you are going to be out past 12:30 every weekend. C’mon parents, you aren’t that dumb.

Rule #2. Cleaning

I don’t know much about your parents, but I do know a thing or two about mine. My mother especially, is a CLEAN FREAK. I come home and immediately put my purse down and without even 30 seconds going by, I’m already called out and forced to take my purse upstairs where it belongs, or I can “go back to my filthy little college apartment” where I can do whatever I want. Apparently now that I’m in college, I am no longer a permanent resident in my own home, therefore, I’m required to keep “her house” clean at all times or else. (HA or else what..)

Rule #3. Being quiet

A majority of college students have progressively aging  parents at this point in our lives, unless you’re mother was about 19 when she had you. This means that an appropriate bedtime in their eyes is around 9:30 p.m. after Jay Leno comes on, which also means your bedtime is about 9:30 p.m. after Jay Leno comes on, and you’re keeping them up because your TV is too loud. The funny thing is I’m almost positive they’re lying, and they just get enjoyment out of making us miserable. There is NO way that old mildly deaf 50 year olds can hear the TV when their room is on the opposite side of the house and on a different floor…just saying. I’ve spent too many nights watching TV on my laptop with my headphones in all because the ‘adults’ need their beauty rest..I’m sorry, but y’all aren’t getting any younger.

So next year when thinking about you’re summertime destination, maybe you’ll think twice before deciding to go home for a fun-filled three months of past high school rules and regulations.

Source: HerCampus