Venting! | unseenblossom's Blog

What the hell!?

My dad just yelled at me for doing something he's been telling me to do for ages now.

Our upstairs hallway needs redecorating so first we need to take off all the old wallpaper. I'd already taken off most of it months ago and only had the bits at the top to take off. (I'm lazy, I know!)

So that's what I did.

Yesterday my dad was out so I started doing it then. I got tired before I'd finished it all so I stopped and cleared up all the mess. Picked bits up, swept the floor with a dustpan and brush and finally vacuumed it.

He came home and didn't say anything really. But also didn't seem bothered by it because it has to be done at some point because he also wants to move house.

So I finished it all this evening. There was mess again, of course, so I cleaned a bit of it up and put all the tools and bucket and stuff away. It was pretty late so I was planning on doing the rest of it tomorrow.

(By the way my dad was downstairs while I did all this, but he could hear me.)

So my dad comes upstairs to say goodnight to me and starts shouting about the mess. I say that I'll clean it up tomorrow and he says yeah because it's too late now. But he kept shouting at me about it. I say that I'll do it tomorrow and point out that I made a mess yesterday and cleaned it all up. And then he starts complaining about having to walk through it all of tomorrow.

Let me tell you just how often he walks through there. He gets up and walks one maybe two steps to get to the loo (he doesn't wash his hands so he doesn't need to go in the bathroom ¬_¬) then walks down the corridor to get to his office, he then stays in there for most of the day. He goes down the stairs to get tea and go to the loo again but his office is right next to the stairs so he doesn't walk through the mess then. In total he probably spends a few minutes max in the hall. He doesn't even see it when he's in his office.

I said I'll clean it up like I did yesterday but he still shouts about it.

Where is the problem????

Of course he'd had a few drinks when this happened so I guess I have to factor that in.

I do something good and helpful, something he's told me to do, and I get yelled at for it! How is that fair? He always says it's his house so he can do all the stuff he likes to it, I'm out! I'm not going to help him or anything if this is what I get for my trouble.

I wake up at 6am to feed my guinea pigs, so guess what dad, that's when I'll clean it up, vacuuming and all!