What’s the purpose of rules if you can’t change them to suit the situation?
BRYAN’S PARENTS TOLD HIM TO BE COOL when his cousins Kelly and Joy came to visit. Bryan couldn’t imagine why his parents would say that. He was always cool when Kelly and Joy came to visit. So, why didn’t the girl’s parents want them to visit anymore?
They got mad because he was really cool the last time the girls visited. He’d even disabled the parental controls on his parents’ cable subscription so they could watch Blink Twice, a radical movie about a bunch of people killing each other on a tropical island. And the girls loved it. They stayed up all night playing video games until their parents came to collect them.
Boy, did people blow that out of proportion. If his parents didn’t want him to break that parental lock, they shouldn’t have locked it. Instead, he could have showed the girls the Terrifier movies. That would’ve kept them up all night for a month. Were they grateful for that? No, they demanded to know how he sneaked into unrated violent movies when he was only twelve.
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