Have you ever heard the term "Couching at the door?" I always thought it was "Crouching", but mom says not...
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"To couch" means "to hide."
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Yes, in high school a possum came in through the doggy door one night and got under my bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and heard really weird snuffling noises under there.  I was terrified and screamed for my mom. She came in and turned on the light and we found him. I still make olympic jumps (35 years later) into bed at night after turning off the light because I know something CAN be under the bed.   LOL
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I grant you exhibitionism is annoying, but can't you just close the curtains on the side of your house facing them?  It seems a shame for you to move out just because of that.  It's sort of like letting them control your life, isn't it?\n\nHave you tried asking them to close their curtains?
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this one I got via e-mail:\nDear Dog and Cat,\nWhen I say to move, it means go someplace else, not switch positions with each other so there are still two of you in the way.\n\nThe dishes with the paw prints are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate of food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.\n\nThe stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.\n\nI cannot buy anything bigger than a king-size bed. I am very sorry about this. Do not think I will continue to sleep on the couch to ensure your comfort. Look at videos of dogs and cats sleeping. They can actually curl up in a ball. It is not necessary to sleep perpendicular to each other stretched out to the fullest extent possible. I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space used is nothing but sarcasm.\n\nMy compact discs are not miniature Frisbees.\n\nFor the last time, there is not a secret exit from the bathroom. If by some miracle I beat you there and manage to get the door shut, it is not necessary to claw, whine, meow, try to turn the knob, or get your paw under the edge.and try to pull the door open. I must exit through the same door I entered. (In addition, I have been using the bathroom for years... canine or feline attendance is not mandatory).\n\nThe proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dogs' or cats' butts. I cannot stress this enough. It would be such a simple change for you.\n\nThese things are simple enough to understand so I ask that you please stick to them!\nThank You\nYour Owner/Chef/and Personal Valet
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Well Kelly, you should explain yourself to your mom, specially the fact that you were raising your voice only to get her attention. Being a parent of two girls, I must ask yourself if that was just the icing on the cake of a recent attitude problem.\n\nHmmm, grounded with all your amenities? Doesn't sound too bad to me.  Ask my daughter what grounding means here. But, I seriously think you should talk to your mom. We are not all that mean, just tough sometimes.  Good luck.
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When I was five, I went to the store with my parents. They had left my older siblings home with my eldest sister to babysit. When we got home, we found the 3 of them stuck in our parents' bedroom. They had wedged a hammer between the bottom of a hardwood door and the hardwood floor. When my dad got finished removing the hinges on the door to remove it, he asked, "Who did this? How did that hammer get stuck there?" My brother pointed at me and said, "Lil' Bit did it." I was at the store with my parents when they did this, but my father blistered my butt. Even as I was crying and screaming how I was with them, he continued to whip me. I have never forgotten that and likely never will!
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Humping is doing it with your clothes on..lol   We used to call it Hunching
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I am a housewife or whatever you want to call it. I don't really like the term 'stay at home mom' b/c I am a wife, too. I really like that I am a mom don't get me wrong, but I really feel like that term takes away from my identity- I am still a 20's something female who really wants to do things as one, too- not just a mom. I mean I LOVE my daughter (who is 7 and a 1/2) and I raise my 5 year old step son and I have since right when he turned 2, but he wasn't even bottle broke and only said dada and ba ba. His dad was raising him alone and totally babied (is that a word?) him. He still does, but when his dad isn't home, I have taken him light years... I also have a 13 yr old step daughter who comes over every tues. and Every weekend.\n       I agree that we don't get enough credit and when I have to say that to ppl I stay at home, I always feel like I should explain myself even though I don't really feel that way. My husband really figures that since I am home then the house should stay spotless, and always look clean, even though no one in the house closes the shower curtain when they are finished- if they use any products (which they do, all day and night) they stay right on the counter. My husband starts a pile of trash on the kitchen counter instead of putting it in the can --even if it isn't full- then he wonders why the house looks the way it does by the end of his day off and never remembers that when he came in the night before he said 'Wow, the house looks great honey'. The clothes just get thrown on the floor wherever and hangers get thrown on the bed... so no matter how hard I try, the house always looks cluttered, you know , like I never bothered, when it what I do everyday and then also at LEAST one night a week, when noone is home (wed. or every other FRI & SAT) I deep clean for hours with my ipod, and you really can't tell so much of the time. If the dishwasher is empty, ppl will still not put there dishes in it, and I didn't even mention the actual doing of the laundry or that my husband changes 10 times both of his days off AND where a 2x in everything, and always wears an undershirt. We have Big towels and then somehow we accumulated quite a feww smaller towels too, well, my husband will give his son a bath and use a beach towel for the floor instead of one of the small towels, which isn't a great big deal until you multiply 4 x 7 to make at least 28 big towels a week already, so washing more big towels instead of little towels makes no sense. They take up at least 3 times more room each.\n     My step son is enrolled in daycare (he goes from 9- 4:30 and pre school is from 1-4 on wen. and fri.) a cpl days a week and that and that started back in Feb. b/c I was at a breaking point, b/c I was raising him myself, while his mom did nothing for him, never came and got him and I was being fought against in trying to help 2 other ppls' son grow and do things that were appropiate for his age. I love him like he is my own, and have taught him everything, yet he the fact that he wasn't mine was being thrown in my face when I would try and do anything towards helping him become more independent. I left for a couple days and when I came back home, I let my husband keep him there 2 days a week so I could get some piece mind and that way his mom had to pick him up 2 times a week and keep him for a cpl hours til his dad got off work, and I was hoping that the school would tell my husband what was appropriate for his age instead of me. If those things weren't going on he would be home all the time.\n\nSorry, this is soo long, but that was a great Q! b/c I thought I was going crazy!!!!
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does it offend you that your roomate does this? think of it this way, at least he/she does it in the shower and not in the living room.\nlet it be, jeeze.
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Hey, sounds like it sucks at home lately.  I have some words of wisdom for you, but I'm not going to drag your parents through the dirt in public, simply because you said "please email me."  So I've done that.  Keep an eye out for me, and we'll talk.\nOh, and for those who insist that you talk to them about it, I'll agree to a point, but right now it sounds like I wouldn't recommend it.
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been there done that...jus make sure that u unlock the door or have a key in the middle of the nite...i kinda locked myself out and yea.....BUSTED!!! jus tell him 2 meet u somewhere and then tell your mom that you are going out to hang out with youre friends.....they'll believe ya!!! good luk!
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i hate being home to.  do whatever you can so you never have to live there and get yourself some good roomates.  when i used to have to move home for the summer i got a cat so that she was my little buddy and an escape for me. my mom's the same as yours as far as morals go.  just keep your mouth shut and deal with it because telling her what she doesn't want to hear will just cause conflict and make you more depressed.
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Since you already have some real answers, I can't resist.\n\n"Turn off the light when you leave the room!"\n\n -- My dad
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Sleep-over....hehehehe. A place to crash, to party, to have lot of fun. That girl must be really sexy, hot, nice and manipulative enough to trick her parent into giving her their house. Good job can you teach me so i can do the same with my parent before i get kick out?
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Honey your mom is going through a lot of stress right now and so are you. I can assure that she loves you and while she might be angry ( hell even PISSED) at you for sneaking out she will respect you being grown up enough to tell her what you did and why. Tell her how you are feeling and what you did. It is a fact of life that you have to accept the punshiment that goes with the "crime" so step up and maybe this conversation will help the two of you understand each other a little better in the long run.
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you should have a lock on your door especially if you change in your room.  No one should be able to walk in on you when u are naked.  I would talk to your parents and discuss it with them rationally.
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YES! My family and I had just moved into a new apartment and a friend new someone who donated us a couch well months had passed and you know how there is always loose change that gets lost in between the cushions? well My little brother begged and begged my mother to let him get the change and she strongly reprimanded the idea of cutting her couch open at the bottom. Days passed and we received a disconnection notice in the mail for our home phone service the bill was only $60+ yet still we could not afford to pay it and one morning my brother decides to disobey my mother and cut the bottom of the couch anyway and in side he finds a crispy brand new one hundred dollar bill! it had no creases or folds in it what so ever. I always wondered, if the money was there all the time, why did we find it at that particular time!