In a story that highlights the importance of being grateful for what you have, 24-year-old Isa Fontaine is currently dreading the fact that she will be staying at her parents’ house this week, primarily because she has never known the true terror of hosting her parents at her own domicile.
“I love my mom and dad dearly, but every time I go back home, I feel like I regress back to being a teenager again,” Isa told reporters. “I’m incredibly lucky to have a place to stay with them, but I know I’ll end up having some sort of conflict with them that I’ll have to walk away from and stew in my room about until it’s time for dinner.”
While Isa will be reluctantly staying at her parents for free, where her mom will cook all of her meals and even do her laundry solely out of the goodness of her heart, Isa’s 28-year-old sister Tina was eager to inform her about just how easy she has it.
“A couple years ago, I didn’t like going back home either,” Tina told Isa over the phone. “But only after I hosted mom at my apartment, I realized how truly incredible it is.”
Tina continued, saying: “Once you’ve ran home from work to do a deep clean because you forgot to do it earlier in the week, decorated your pathetic living room to the best of your abilities, tried to get rid the weed smell with both incense and Febreze, and hid all the packs of cigarettes you had lying around, still fearful that you forgot one somewhere that mom will inevitably find and confront you about, you’ll realize how luxurious staying at our parents’ house actually is.”
However, despite this sage wisdom from her older sister, Isa remained grumpy about traveling to her parents’ home, where she will be consistently comfortable and taken care of.
“It’s just so annoying when they make me eat dinner with them at the table every single night, which my parents both prepared and set,” Isa told reporters. “I’m an adult now, so it’s weird to be still under someone else’s rules, especially after moving away. I can’t wait until I have a bigger place and host them under my own house rules. That would obviously be so much better!”
According to Tina, this will not be the case.
“The last time I had dad over, he told me not to play any music in my room after 9 p.m., even though we were sleeping on opposite sides of the apartment.” Tina told reporters. “He also refused to take his shoes off at the door and changed the thermostat to 35 degrees. I was surprisingly still warm though due to the sheer stress I had worrying about if he was having a good time or not!”
As of press time, Tina had offered to go in her sister’s place to their parents’ house instead.
