So we have this Great Room and it's sorta new and I moved everything out of the way so we could play DDR and stuff. I even designated an area and put a cover over the carpet where I was going to have drinks and food and stuff like that on a certain table.
And we could all just have a really good time in there...but no. We're not allowed to eat in there which is RIDICULOUS because I said that I'd put towels down all over the couch so no one would get Cheetos fingers all over the furniture. All my other friends are allowed to eat and do anything they want in their living room...what's so great about MINE?
Is this normal? To have a mother who won't allow you to eat and drink in their EVEN WHEN you say you'll clean up the room til it's sparkling afterwards. Or putting down towels on the couch so no crap accumulates. Is this ridiculous or am I just overreacting?
(I am a 14 year old freshman boy who just wants to have a party with 6 or 7 people. If that adds anything special)
2007-12-30 04:13:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Well, as a mom, I can sorta see her point -- teenage boys playing a rowdy game of DDR aren't exactly quiet and careful with their drinks and food! Especially if the room is "sorta new" -- she is probably proud of her new furniture/carpet, etc., and wants to keep it looking nice. No matter how careful YOU are, you can't vouch for your friends, and some of them will be careless, a drink will get tipped over accidently, and the next thing you know, there's a big brown stain on her new carpet or her new sofa.
And you don't want to be the "party police", always asking people to "be careful!!" -- that's no fun, either. Having towels lying around the den is a little tacky, too -- as if to say to your friends, "you aren't good enough to sit on my furniture!"
If the kitchen is close by, why not compromise and have a buffet set up on the kitchen table or the breakfast room where people can snack?
PS: She'll probably relax on the restrictions after the room gets more "lived in".
2007-12-30 04:29:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The room will not look nice covered in make-shift towels etc. Besides, guys your age eating pizza and other greasy stuff will definitely get stains on teh furniture and coke on the carpets no matter how hard you try. Or at least it will be a miracle if they don't. I know exactly how you feel, it is awkward having to go to eat in another room, but your mum is probably right. Don't worry, it's no big deal. You will play, talk etc. in the living room, and then stop for a while to go eat, and come back! And if your mother sees that you eat properly and carefully, next year she may allow you to eat in the living room! Enjoy your party and don't worry about stuff like this!
2007-12-30 04:25:24 · answer #2 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your Mom is worried about the couch rather than the room. There may be a different compromise your Mom might agree to, towels aren't adequate because liquids will go right throught them and they get moved around so food stains will likely get on the couch as well.
Do you think your Mom would be ameniable to a different solution? Move the the new couch out of the party room completely and subsitute other older chairs. Your freinds might have some folding chairs they might be able to lend you as well so you would have enough places where your friends could sit down, draw their chairs togethor and chat.
2007-12-30 04:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll have to move the party to the kitchen when it's time for snacks. I wouldn't let 6 or 7 young people to eat in my living room and it isn't new.
2007-12-30 07:12:53 · answer #4 · answered by Classy Granny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just be appreciative that your mom is letting you have a party. It isn't so much to ask of you that you don't eat on her new furniture.
2007-12-30 18:10:02 · answer #5 · answered by missbeans 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe if you buy vinyl slip covers she'll budge a little...nothign wrong with wanting to keep nice things nice...although you mom may be alittle too materialistic.... for the future maybe you could talk them into finishing the basement or something so you can have a space for you and your crew to hang.....and just funrish it with yard sale stuff so it'snot expensive.....
2007-12-30 05:52:03 · answer #6 · answered by Princess Consuela B. Hammock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, moms tend to do that a lot
2007-12-30 04:21:35 · answer #7 · answered by laminated turkey lemoneer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋