Im proud of you son, you're a geek!Yea... Let's talk about my mom, everybody has to talk about their moms in internet at least once. My mom has never shoo'd me off the computer, even when I was younger... In matter of fact, each time she got mad at me, instead of telling me to get out or into my room, she actually told me to go to play with my computer. That was of course, when I was younger.
My grandfather (rest in peace), wasn't much better. When I was a veeery little kid, like 9 or something, I had this Commodore 64. I got it from my cousin who gave it to me. It came with a manual, and had very good basics to Commodore's computer language called Basic. I actually coded over 200 lines of code just to get a small ball bounce around the screen, so advantaged the programming language was. But I enjoyed it, and then showed them all to my grandparents who then praised me. My grandfather (grandma was way too senile) conviced my mom that she should buy me a real computer. Computers are the future, he said. Imagine a 80 year old man saying this... In the early 90's when only a minority had actually used a computer. He actually promised to pay half of the price of the computer. My mom was still reluctant, and it took a few years until she put my oldest cousin's husband to find me a computer. That took a while too, and my grandfather died to blood cancer a day or two after the new computer arrived. I was mad at the guy because of this, I really wanted my grandpa to see the computer. The computer was Pentium 100.
Now im 21 and still living in home (a rather big shame if I cared about it) and still spend my days in the internet. Mom doesn't care because she wants me to stay and take care of her when she gets old. Too bad I have other plans. It kind of sucks to leave her alone one day, but I have to think about myself too. (And before you ask, my mom was a single parent and she isn't married.)
At times she brags when I don't go out or anything... Then I just say that sure, I can go out and socialize, hit a bar if she promises to bring me home at 2 am when im drunk. That's actually the only hobby here in the country for the teens. Besides computers. You've probably heard that Finland has a drinking problem, and well, guess what, it's true. Alot of guys I know actually have a real drinking problem in here, they don't just drink when they want to hang out, they drink because they're addicted to it. I actually once saw a friend from school, dead drunk, at wendesday, summer, 2 pm, when I was heading back to home from school. He was supposed to be in school too. He told me how he had been kicked out from two bars and wanted me to buy beer for him. He asked my age, I said I was still 17 (18 is the legal age to drink in Finland) so I couldn't help. Then he left. Later I found out he had tried to commit suicide. One guy I knew from school too, actually commited a suicide a year ago. Just like his father. I suppose it runs in the family.
Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. When my mom is at work, her friends keep asking about me... Usually about my friends. And then she proudly tells them how many friends I have all over the world, in the internet. And everybody is like "Ooh, aah!" and then they tell her how their son/daughter does nothing but drink all day with their friends. Now im distance learning in a virtual school (except it's not really a virtual school, because the school exists physically too) and that's another story all together. When I quit the man school (=compulsary army service) and decided to go to the gay school (=non-military service) everybody in my family, even those who were gun freaks in the army, told me that it was a wise decision. Only my neighbour was pissed because of it, loudly wondering to my mom what's wrong with the kids these days when they can't be in the army... And this guy does nothing but sleep, drink and shoot birds while the wife goes to work. A guy who has never done anything in his life is the last person to say anything about my decisions. But that's just my opinion.
