My father refused to come to my apartment when mom visited last week.
- Mom told me that dad hated my apartment, and the window aIr conditioning unit was the worse.
He worried about me living in an apartment that didn’t have a fire escape plan. He hated I had an air conditioning unit that was older than he was. I knew he was stretching this fact, but who was I to say how old he really was. I teased dad they didn’t have window air conditioning units when he was a kid, which just angered him even more. I didn’t know what was wrong with him. He told me it was okay if I moved out and got an apartment. I was closer to work and to school. I could walk to school, and walk to work from my apartment. Everything I needed was within a block of the apartment, and I thought I had chosen wisely. The rent was perfect and it didn’t cost me more than what I made every month, from my job. My school loan covered all my school expenses. One afternoon, my came over to visit and she asked when I would be coming to the house. I told her I had all my time tied up between school, studying, working, and rest. I didn’t have a lot of time to get away. She told me how much dad missed me, and she thought I needed to make a surprise visit. I finally figured out it wasn’t the air conditioning unit he was upset about, but that I had left home.