“What? You’re…coming?” April shrieked when her parents announced a visit.
“Why, what’s wrong?” Her mother asked.
April glanced around her tiny apartment, feeling a little bit shameful. “Uh, nothing. It’s…just I’m very busy with work and…stuff. Anyway, gotta go, byeee!” She hung up the phone before her mother could say more and slumped to the floor against her front door. “Oh…M…G, what. Am. I going to do?”
Her parents were expecting their hotshot lawyer of a daughter to have a large house or a penthouse apartment that would accomodate them. Instead, all she had was a tiny 400-square-foot studio apartment.
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Maybe she should share the photo above with them and suggest the get a hotel room. Unless they don’t mind sleeping on the blow up bed!
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I think coming clean is the best option.
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When I was young, I lived in a studio apartment and when my parents came to visit, they stayed in a motel. Of course they knew my living conditions and I wasn’t a hotshot lawyer, so there is that.
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So what you’re saying is she should’ve come clean in the first place and have her parents stay at a motel.
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She’ll have to eventually.
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Expectations are usually self-made. Parents have seen the world before their children and they know better than that…
Nice plot. Have a good day. 🙂
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But I think expectations are also influenced by a person’s upbringing and many other factors. Thank you for reading.
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the accommodation will be tough, but i’m sure they’ll make do.
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Or they can stay at a hotel.
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We make our expectations ourselves, but reality don’t always reflect them. Nice story 👍
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Thank you.
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You’re welcome ☺️
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A nearby hotel would be the best option. Or like my Korean friend whose parents came to the states for her college graduation and I asked where they would stay in the small apartment she shared with a roommate: bedrolls! Different expectations and we always want to impress our parents.
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I feel like this is more prevalent in Asian cultures, where the offspring would spend their life trying to make their parents happy.
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