So quick rant, I (15m) slept through all four of my alarms and ended up waking up at 7:40 which is when my bus leaves, and I thought "this isn’t the worst, I can ask mom to drive me" since school is far and it’s too cold to walk. Instead, mom (~41f) said "put a coat on and get walking" so I did, reluctantly, but I didn’t really have another option. Now something to note is that I live in a town with a canal down the middle of it, with three bridges, and I live on the opposite side from the school. The bridge that I can get to is one of those lift bridges. Anyway, AS I WAS GETTING THERE the bridge started going up, so annoyed, I waited… THEN A SECOND BOAT STARTED COMING! I was like "f*ck this" and texted my mom "Hey, I’m stuck at the bridge, could you come pick me up?" And she replied with "serves you right, maybe you should wake up on time" then another text shortly after "if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go be on time for work" like WTF MOM is it so hard to come pick up your son?! The school bell had already rang by the time the bridge was down, and I ended up very close to missing my OSSLT test, which I REQUIRE TO GRADUATE. Anyway, aita?
YTA. Get it together and wake up earlier. This is your fault.
YTA. This is kind of the exact this you do to punish a kid for not being on time, dude. Like, it would be one thing if you didn’t live in a safe area, and THAT is what you were worried about. You’re just mad that you were inconvenienced by the consequences of your own actions.
YTA. Asshole might be a rough word, but this is a very good life lesson to learn at 15. You have almost no stakes, absences and work can be made up, etc. Unless you have a ridiculous life that is leading to lack of sleep, such as a job after school and staying up late for specifically schoolwork, then you should be able to eak up to four alarms. There are going to be more important things in life that you can’t just sleep through.
Lol. YTA. Get up when your alarms go off.
Soft yta
You gotta learn to get up on time, sorry.
It sucks bc teens are literally wired to be night owls, but that doesn’t change the situation. You need to get up.
Get an alarm clock. Leave your phone in another room during the night and have the alarm clock on the other side of your room so you need to get out of bed to turn it off.
YTA welcome to consequences lol
This is your fault.
Why should your mom be late for her actual job?
YTA. 15 is old enough to get yourself up on time. You got a taste of the real world today. Sucks to take responsibility for your own actions, doesn’t it?
YTA– with a caveat
You’re well within your right to want and expect dear ol’ mum to help you out. That’s what parents do. I’m sure you’d help her out too.
BUT this case can also be seen as a teaching moment– a FAFO situation. I’m sure your mama loves you a lot but she could just be trying to teach you a lesson here.
YTA.
I’m sure you won’t believe this, but your mom isn’t just being mean. She’s teaching you some of the most important life lessons for having a successful life: Show up on time. Take responsibility for your own actions. It’s not anyone else’s obligation to bail you out of problems of your own making. There are natural consequences to poor decisions.
None of this is your mom’s problem. Blame yourself for *almost* missing your test, as you *didn’t* miss it. YTA.
It looks like you didn’t even miss the test. Your mom is teaching you a very valuable lesson here. A big test means you should have been prepared, well tested and ready to go on time. It’s good it was a test and not something more important.
YTA
YTA, but it’s not a permanent condition.
If you got your way, the end result would be that you get to sleep in *and* not be late, while your mother, who did everything right, ends up being late for work.
Do you see how that’s unfair? You basically wanted to take the consequences–being late–and hand them to your mother instead of keeping them for yourself. That’s not her job at this stage of your life, except in very serious circumstances.
YTA but this can be a learning lesson for you.
Everybody who’s answering you has been through life so we can speak from a different perspective than yours. Fortunately, the perspective we have is the same one you will have in another few years.
We know how alarms work. So unless you had three alarms going all at the same time and you still didn’t get up, you didn’t sleep through the alarms. You chose not to get up when you turned them off. That is your responsibility.
How can you fix this? You put your alarm on the other side of your bedroom so you are forced to get up and walk across the bedroom to turn it off, and then continue walking to the bathroom to get ready for school.
Most kids learn their lesson when they are taught it. This was your lesson to learn. Your mother is not there to pick up the slack for you not doing what you were supposed to do. And like it or not, her making you walk to school was parenting. That is her job.
I have a feeling that there have been times in the past where she has driven you to school and so you took advantage of that.
My children never knew that was an option. If they were to ride the bus, they were to get up and go on the bus. Your mother did not set up the bus route for you to be able to ignore the alarm and have her drive you to school anyway. She set up the bus because she needs to get on with her day, and driving you to school would throw off everything.
So what she did threw off everything for you, which is what is supposed to happen.
Actions have consequences
So yes, you are TA for wanting your mother to just drive you to school, because you didn’t even consider your mother or her day. What you did was selfish, and what she did was not allow you to be selfish.