I remember being hyped as hell for Power Rangers Zeo when it was about to come out. There was a BIG cliffhanger at the end of MMPR (I won't spoil it but those who followed it know what it is) and they were quietly building up to the new season for months.
Finally, the big day comes. Power Rangers Zeo is about to premiere and I'm over at my friend's house to watch it, when suddenly my parents come and tell me that I have to go on an errand with them. There's absolutely no reason why I would've had to go, the errand doesn't pertain to me in any way shape or form, my friend's house was right across the street so it's not like they would've had to go out of their way to pick me up afterwards (as I could just walk home), I wasn't in trouble and they didn't have any problem with me watching Power Rangers or hanging out at my friend's house, so there was basically no conceivable reason why they made me go with them.
I tried to explain that I wanted to watch this episode of Power Rangers and I've been wanting to watch it for months, but my mom replied with "well, it'll be on again eventually". I tried to explain that it was a serialized show and that if I missed this episode it would be ruined for me as soon as I saw the next one, she was like "well, that's just tough". I asked to be allowed to go home to tape the episode on our VCR, she said "No, we have to go right now, there's no time" (it was not an urgent errand, though). So yeah, I had to miss the premiere of Power Rangers Zeo that I'd been waiting to see for months for no good reason.
Sometimes I think my parents did some things when I was a kid just to troll me.
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My mom has a tendency to do dishes loudly in the next room for the one hour of the week that I watch TV, and at a different much earlier hour than that every other day of the week
That reminds of the one time I was at my grandparents for a week or so and I got hooked on Digimon Season 3. It was on at some random time like 6am so I'd always wake up before my parents, grandparents and siblings and watch it and then go back to sleep. I was about to watch the finale when my grandpa walked in a few minutes before it started and said let's not watch TV today and proceeded to turn it off. I tried to explain it was the last one and I just wanted to watch for a bit but he wasn't having it. Everyone else was still asleep mind you, I was so distraught I just went back to bed.
I never saw that last episode either!
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Most parents don't care to try to understand their kids. They just want to satisfy their own needs, and if anything, just keep the kid off drugs or away from boys (if they're girls) to preserve their own pride in the eyes of friends and other family.
Humans have such fragile egos and weak wills. Pathetic.
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There was this one time in middle school where I had to miss an episode of Lost because of some band concert which really annoyed me (before TV shows being widely available on the internet), and I don't think I ended up seeing it for like a year.
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