I know staying up past bedtime is illegal but I did it once to check and fortnite was in fact off 😔

Truly terrible news

  • sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    271·
    1 month ago

    This is why we trust but verify. Thanks mom for teaching me that cruel lesson of unplugging the phone cord to get me to bed (dial up days). It lasted about a week before I caught on you always came up from the basement before bed.

    I’m so glad you never noticed I swapped my line with the guest bedroom. Also glad that ancient block in the basement could be hand wired.

    • zerofk@lemm.ee
      10·
      1 month ago

      Ah the eternal arms race between parents and children. For me it was lights out so I couldn’t read, circumvented with a flashlight under the blanket.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        2·
        29 days ago

        My sister got told off regularly for reading after lights out

        As adults my mother told me that after they found books for me I liked they pretended to never notice the light leaking through my doona, they were just happy to see I was reading

        • meliaesc@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          Sure, but I’m assuming the “mom” in OP’s story was just trying to help their child get enough sleep.

        • psud@aussie.zone
          1·
          29 days ago

          That’s “parent” not “adult”

          I with no kids at home have excellent sleep

          Teens are the ones (after new mothers) who suffer the most, with natural sleep cycles starting around midnight or in the early morning and wake times in the late morning or early afternoon, but school schedules that force them to be active at school from 9am