If teenage you had Aibu (lighthearted)

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I know i’m not BU, but mum and dad are making such a big deal of this that I need opinions. AIBU to hitchhike 400 miles to see Nirvana in concert? I can study for exams when I get back. Mum and dad said they would pay for me to take the coach but that takes all the fun out of it. I never know who I will meet hitching and sometimes my rides give me drugs. And AIBU to sleep in a hedge outside the concert venue? I want to save my money for booze and pills, not waste it on accomodation

[ok so that may have been my emotionally labile 15 yr old and not me because I woke up in menopausal confusion and misread the op.]

My best friend’s mum has just bought me a ticket for Reading Festival and says it’s a gift so I don’t have to pay back. My Chemical Romance are playing main stage so obviously I have to go.

But my grandparents have booked a family trip to Devon that week. I’ve said I can get the train alone after the festival. I’ll only be two days late. My mum says I’m being ungrateful. I can’t believe she’s making me miss my chance to see Gerard Way in the flesh for the fifteenth time. I know IANBU. Why is she so determined to ruin my life????

AIBU to think that purple is a perfectly reasonable colour to wear on my eyelids? It doesn't make me look washed out and as if I've taken drugs, no matter how many people tell me it does! I've read tutorials on how to apply makeup in my magazines, I KNOW what works on me!
Also, AIBU to think that in 20 years time we'll all be wearing space suits because that's what it said in my Jackie annual from a few years ago and that's the gospel truth, right?

Aibu to have a party while my mum is visiting my nan? It'll just be a few (dozen) friends over with some cider, mad dog 20/20 and smokes. What could possibly go wrong?

@thisonebreath YANBU at all! It’s your house too right? I did the same and you should have heard my mum go on about the pink hair dye (we were giving each other Mohawks) that stained the window seat in the drawing room. It’s a 300 year old house ffs it’s not like it’s brand new.

AIBU to tell my parents I'm staying at my friend's house and then go to Stonehenge at solstice and when moved on by the police spend the night smoking dope on top of Silbury Hill?

Or to hitchhike to Reading Festival - Nirvana !! - and then sleep in a communal tent with loads of fandoms.

Or hitchhike to Glastonbury festival and sleep in the cinema tent?!

Aibu to think that dying my blonde hair black is ok as school says hair must be natural colour and black is a natural colour? Also aibu to think dm is a witch for moaning about me wrecking the white towels - she can just bleach them? And putting a black handprint on the bathroom door? It’s not my fault I forgot to read the instructions about wearing gloves?
Also, anyone got any good tips for getting dribbles of black hair dyed off the back of my neck before the boy I like notices them?

Sweetpout - OMG why do your rents make you live in such an old house? The only way to get through that is with a mohawk ffs! HTH sorry

Thisonebreath - YANBU! FGS are they your warders or what? It's totally like being in a Thai prison, I'm sure your friends are totes cool.

Right! AIBU here? I've got my O levels and learned to drive Dad's Ford Zephyr so no one can say I don't know best. I'm working in a bar in Hanover to "improve my German". So I'm in love with Wilfried the German fireman and I'm totally staying here and not coming back to do my A Levels. I mean he's totally gorge and I'm clever enough anyway. The rentals have gone ballistic and have loaded up the Zephyr and driven here to force me home. Caught Wilfried giving my Dad an apologetic and grateful look as i was driven away. My little sister is trying to cheer me up by singing Dr Hook "when you're in love with a beautiful woman" to cheer me up. They are so stupid they don't know what love is and don't even know that German firemen are way more romantic in private.

@unexpected twist your plans sound awesome! Your parents are BU if they object to any of that.
@thighofrelief so glad you understand, ugh I hate old things. I wish we lived in a new semi with wall to wall carpet and a fitted kitchen.

Not me it's my mum who's BU.

EVERY TIME NO MATTER WHAT I WEAR - She says 'You are NOT WEARING THAT!!'
to go out in. ( Stuff her anyways, I have smuggled electric blue eyeliner and mascara in my bag and am wearing my mini skirt under a normal skirt - ha!)

Oh god @thighofrelief just x posted with you. The only sensible thing to do is sneak out one night and make your way back to Hanover. You totes don’t need your A levels what are your parents thinking? Sounds like they just want you to be ordinary, straight zzzzz like them.

@atiamtheoneandonly2018 that’s the way! Does your mum ever go through your wardrobe and chuck out your faves?

My mum says I was unreasonable to just drive to the Lake District ( only took us 8 hours!!) with my boyf for a week without telling anyone!?
I’ve had my license 6 months now, I’m 18 and I’ve got the AA map. Just cause they bought the car it’s mine to do whatever I want with right!

Sweetpout- Thanks for validating my feelings, I'm a person too right! Do you think I should take the Zephyr to get back to Hanover? Dad can get the bus to work. The thing is, to get out of my job at the bar over there without giving notice I told them my brother had died in a freak accident. I don't have a brother so that was ok wasn't it?

AIBU to be annoyed that my Mam waited up til 4.30am to make sure I got home safe from the disco? FFS of course I was safe! We were just having so much fun so decided to hang out in the field after the disco finishing off the last of the peach schnapps/cherry cola combo that Sharon robbed from home, missed the last bus, no money for a taxi, had to stumble walk the four miles home. I mean I was PERFECTLY SAFE!! and she is BU, 4.30am is not that late. She's old, she needs her sleep way more than I do!

Mine keep complaining that all I wear is army surplus clothing and doc martens, even to family occasions. Any wonder I walk 5 metres behind them with a face like a slapped arse

AIBU here? Is it OK to go swimming in the sea when completely pissed? I have a silver life saving badge so will just inflate my clothes and save myself.

Bunchofdaffodils - your parents are soooo mean! Why don't they just cut your hands off so you can't drive? You should report them. Property is theft anyway.

Peterrabbits - ugh you must be so embarrassed of them. I have monkey boots and a donkey jacket so i get you. You should cut all your hair off and dye the tufts purple like me.

@thighofrelief absolutely take the zephyr. They basically owe it to you. Re the brother story it will be fine, any one would have done the same in your position (well I would) 😀 If anyone gets suspicious and questions you, blame your bad German/their bad English and maintain there has been a misunderstanding.

@peterabbitscarrot omg don’t your rents know what fashion is? I like to team my combat pants and docs with a bustier top and some dog tags. Why the fuck shouldn’t I wear that to my aunties wedding and Christmas dinner? It’s how I roll.

My parents want to TALK to me! All the time, even at breakfast! AIBU surely they must know they don't have anything interesting to say, especially at breakfast.

AIBU to say my parents are trying to ruin my life?!!
I worked so hard to get the cash to buy a Glastonbury ticket. I sold all the Take That CDs and stuff coz it's so lame now. And now I'm in love with Jarvis Cocker so it's only right that I go.

Anyway, they are now saying I can't go! I mean it is raining so bad it's made the national news, and I am 15 but that's not the point! I am sat here in tears about this!

They keep talking about wet weather trousers! OMG, I'm not being seen dead in those! Also, I asked my mum where my red trousers are and she said 'what, the clown trousers? No idea'. I swear she's thrown them away! What does she know about fashion?! She wears Marks and Spencer's suits!

FGS, life is so unfair.

[My dad, God bless him, actually drove me and my mate there and back and I think I wore the weather proof gear too]