My mom took me into a police station this Friday. when my mom is angry she turns into nuts! She took me there because she got really angry that she and my father went to pick me up at Taipei Main Station and I thought she told me to take the MRT, and she thought I went off running away with a boy, but no I didn't, and I was really angry that she said she saw me running toward the stairs ( which lead me to the MRT) as soon as I left the building (my cram school) and a boy was chasing after me, whereas I know I didn't cause I stop in front of the building to see if Sherry is waiting for me there, and it even took me about 5 minutes to text her and trying to make sure she had already gone away. I'm so pissed off that my mom can't even recognize her own daughter.(this isn't the first time)
She said if I wanted to go home myself I have to try contacting her, which I did called her, but she left her cellphone at home, and I thought she answered it and said I can take the MRT. *Taipei Main Station is a noisy place so I didn't hear it clearly, I think the only voice that came out of her phone was the voicemail. (why I called her is because I'm scared that my father is driving the car and my mom barely came to pick me up with dad, there's only been two times) When I got onto the MRT I text them again just to make sure they know I'm on the MRT, and my dad called me on the phone, and first I thought was crap, my father did drove his car here, so I answered without thinking for a minute I'm on the MRT already.
They claim that I have communication problem and was really angry with me, but what they were probably really angry about me was running off with a boy(I told them I didn't they didn't believe me) or they claimed that I planned to run away from them and went for the GASHAPON. (which I did but I didn't meant to run away from them)We went to the police station while I was crying, she expected the polices take notes about this, and wanted me to be awkward in front of other people. But the police asked her 3 times why did we come here, she was acting crazy in front of them saying what I had done 3 times and claimed that was communicating problem and I meant to leave them there. The cops were like "Hey, hey, hey cool down let's talk outside the station." At first they were on my mom's side, but after I told them my mom was attempting to kick me outside the house for this, their attitude changed. "Your mom was kidding! And she was worried about you." "No you don't understand, she threw my sister's backpack out the window one time to kick her out."(I remember another time she locked my sister outside the door too) and the police officers were shocked. "Let me talk to your mom alone." After talking to her the cops told me not to cry anymore and they said my mom promised them not to blame me or scream at me anymore, I couldn't describe the feeling I felt, I was crying on the outside, but happy on the inside, for the first time in forever, I achieved a goal I always wanted to achieve since I was in elementary school grade 3, she finally noticed she was wrong, she had always been wrong she never try to listen to me. (this is why we have communication problems, right?)
I think she wouldn't take any of her children to the police station again. This is the second time she went there, she was with my younger sister last time, because my sister didn't do well on the exam and screamed back at mom while Mom was yelling at her.
I was really both grateful and sorry to the cops and I really like how it turned out in the end of this fight. I fought back, and didn't keep silent like i usually does.
Study questions
1. Where is Jason going to attend school in January? What will make this a “shocking” experience for him? What should be his new baseball team?
/1/ "Jason is off to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in January."
/2/ Enjoying the hockey season there might be a shocking experience for
him.
/3/ Fortunately, he probably get to enjoy the game played by the Toronto Blue
Jays.
3. What did Mr. Maher do to qualify for his “free breakfast” on this holiday?
To let his son Patrick, who is a sergeant now, show his military ID card.4. Why are Collen (the mother) and Echo (the daughter) in Ireland at this time?
Echo who is working, just has the occasional day off. She was looking forward to the ice skating shows.
