For some weird reason when I say I don’t get along with my parents, people usually blame me like it’s my fault. I get it, they think I’m some typical annoying teenager who has attitude problems and a chip on his shoulder. The reason my parents don’t get along is not the usual reason that most people might suspect. I don’t have a curfew and I’ve never been told that I couldn’t do something or that I was grounded. The best way to explain is by saying that my parents are free spirits, aka hippies. I mean my parents looks like they’re just stepped out of a woodstock documentary, it’s embarrassing. I’m in my final year of school and am at a critical point in my studies, my parents decided that it was the perfect time to uproot our family and move house. As it turns out my mother had been gotten in touch with energy efficient home builders in Melbourne a year ago to get an eco friendly house. The reason for this move was twofold, firstly my parent felt bad for not living in a sustainable home. Second the drains in our current home were terrible and kept getting blocked. The things is, rather than call a professional drain clearing expert in Melbourne, my father liked to try and fix it himself with vegetable oils. He has no experience with plumbing and doesn’t know the first thing about unblocking drains. He doesn’t understand that it’s probably his vegetable oils that blocked the drain in the first place. He thinks because vegetable oil is ‘all natural’ that it’s fine to pour them down the sink.

I know for a fact that you can’t pour any kind of oil down the drain because it causes blockages. I’ve been trying for a long time to get my parents to simply get a drain inspections, Melbourne has some pipes that have been around for a hundred years. It could be a simple matter of needing a new pipe lining that be easily installed once a drain cleaning has taken place. It’s so annoying that my parents don’t listen to me, I’m the sensible one. I’ve done the research, I know what we could do about the drains but mother is oblivious to simple things like facts. My father is even worse, although his hearing is going so it’s hard to know what he understands and what he simply nods his head at.

As it turns out this fancy new sustainable house is now complete and ready for us to move in. My mother thought it would be a lovely surprise, she was wrong. I have no interesting in moving house even if is for a more eco friendly home. I have built a life here, I’m tired of moving every few years. I don’t need this kind of stress, I have so much going on with school and friends. The worst part of the whole situation is that they didn’t ask for my input or how I would feel about moving. They made the decision without thinking about how it would impact my life. Do they not understand how big a thing like moving is to somebody my age? I guess they assumed that I would be happy for them like they always do. My mother has been talking constantly about Melbourne sloping block builders. My objections to the move have already been overruled before I open my house. My mother doesn’t like ‘negative language’ so I have to find a nice of saying that I hate the idea.