To be honest, I can't tell if I'm being selfish or is she? I mean, my mother.
Basically, we had a fight last night... because of wifi. Of all things. Seriously. It started like this.
A few days ago, she suddenly just told me that she was gonna change the wifi plan. Instead of having TWO (one for me and one for her) pocket wifi devices with 70GB each, she will take a router and ONE pocket wifi with 180GB limit monthly (15% of that will be for the pocket wifi. Apparently, this was offered to her because her last plan was already about to end. And she took it. Without asking me, of course.
I didn't like the idea because it's a hassle and it means I will lose my device but I didn't complain because the plan is under her name and she's playing most of the bill anyway. Honestly, I usually forget to pay my part but I do pay when she reminds me to.
Now, during the 1st day of the change, it already proved to be a hassle. She didn't tell me when the subscription to the new plan will actually start so I was suprised when mine suddenly cut off. I didn't complain. When I got home, I expected the router she brought home to be working. IT WASN'T. I asked my cousin who was living with us to let me connect with her own wifi for a bit so I could tell mom the router wasn't working. She told me she'd take care of it after her shift.
That day, I wasn't feeling well. I had a slight fever during lunch at work and took meds to get me thru the rest of my hours. While I was resting, mom called and told me to bring the device to her because she was at the outlet that gave her the device. I didn't even have time to tell her I wasn't feeling well because she kept going on about not having a lot of time (the next day would be an off day followed by 2 days of holiday so she wanted to get it fixed and I did too because what else would I use??). So despite feeling bad, I walked almost 5 kilometers to give it to her. I knew I was pale when we met but she was all smiles and she kept talking. I told her I wasn't feeling well so we should just get it fixed and go back. Of course, she didn't listen and kept chatting. I didn't respond because I felt like throwing up every time I opened my mouth and she got annoyed and told me to take a cab home. I didn't want to because my dad always said not to take cabs alone. She stopped chatting and kept insisting that the whole way and I kept refusing. And then she started speed walking, leaving me who was all pale and almost puking behind. I tried to keep up and when we got to the mall where she got the device (that's about almost a mile more after we met up), the first thing I did was find a toilet to throw up.
When I came back, mom was already talking to someone about the router. Apparently, there was a problem with the sim card. She also asked about the wifi devicr she didn't get yet and was informed that the pocket wifi can only have a maximum of 15% of the 180GB. If we want to ger 2 devices, we have to pay extra and split the 15%. That's 13.5GB each and that's just stupid. So I told her not to ger a extra device and just get the one that came with her original package. While we were waiting for a new sim card to be given for the router, I sent my sister aessage about borrowing one of her pocket wifis. She has the same plan we had before mom changed ours. Of course, I can't use up too much of her's but I can bring it when I go out. She agreed.
All of that happened last week.
Now, fast forward to yesterday, Fridays is off day for me and my sister. Which also means, we are in charge of cooking lunch. We had to cook 2 dishes, one of our parents and one of us. I was assigned to cook ours while my sister cooked the one for our parents and for some reason, we couldn't figure out the recipe our dad left for their food so it became quite a hassle. My sister gave it up and decided to just hang the laundry I finished washing the night before, so I was left to finish cooking both dishes.
While I was cooking, mom kept on asking me where my wifi was (the one I borrowed from my sister) and I told her it was charging in our bedroom. She asked if she could bring it to work and I told her it wasn't mine so ask my sister. I think my sister said to ask me but I said I didn't know if it was okay, hut to be honest it wasn't okay with me. My mom apparently felt that and said nevermind and started preparing to go.
I was too busy to mind her but when I had a couple of minutes free from the cooking, I went out and asked her if she needed it but she said nevermind so I went back to the kitchen and continued cooking.
After she left, I told my sister I was reluctant to let mom borrow it and she told me she was too. Now, here's a fact. Mom uses about 6GB per day. I know that because when we were sharing wifi, she would borrow mine when her's is almost empty about 2 weeks. She watches Kdramas or Youtube videos is the high quality all the time. There's about about 40gb left in the device my sister gave me, and she uses that for downloading and I use it for music and reading. If I let her get it, it wouldn't last until the end of the month and I'll be the one without anything to use.
I thought it was over then but when she came home at night, she called me to the kitchen and closed the door. Ugh. She told me why I didn't even ask her why she wanted to borrow the wifi and ahe went on about ranring that she was alone at work and she was so bored. This confirmed that she would be using up a lot of the data and then realized that she was also lying because I actually remember her asking if I was done cooking during lunch so she could being food for her co-worker. She asked for the food she CAN'T eat so I knew it wasn't for her.
When I told her about how she had caused me inconvenience too, she just brushed it off and only kept talking about how I just refused (I didn't directly refuse but she did say nevermind, omg) to let her borrow the wifi and how I wasn't even concerned enough to ask her why she was borrowing it??
I think my mom fantasizes that my world would revolved around her and it really won't so she will keep being disappointed.
Whenever she asks me why I don't like talking to her, I really don't understand how she doesn't know. I'm seriously so excited to go some place else and far far far away from her.
