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I am in one heck of a quandry...

SmileySmiley Registered User regular
edited August 2004 in PAX Archive
My mom doesn't want me to go to PAX. However, she respects my desire to attend, and thus is paying for air + hotel.

However.

She is willing to pay me $650 -- six hundred and fifty dollars -- if I don't go.

See, I live in Michigan, and I've never been on my own before, especially 2500 miles away. And apart from my grandmother (her mother), I'm the only thing she has in the world.

However, if I take the money, it could very well be the first step into becoming one of those stereotypical guys who live with their mothers, or something. That wouldn't be cool at all.

But $650 is an incredible amount of money.

However, could money replace the experience of going to PAX? I mean, who knows how fun it'll be?

So, what are your thoughts? What do you think I should do?

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  • futilityfutility Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2004
    how old are you?

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2004
    You're 20, right? Use the money to get ready to move out, or at least go to PAX so you can have a taste of what it's like to be on your own. I'll even go a step further and assume you have not had a steady job, since you refer to $650 (which is no small sum) as an "incredible amount of money." You need to get out more, one way or another.

    Doc on
  • Penguin Born To FragPenguin Born To Frag Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    Tell her that you wont go to PAX but that you need to go there because you promised your friend you would at least be there (at the hotel)...then just attend PAX and come home and say you were bored the whole time while your friend went to PAX.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2004
    Wow penguin...

    Umm.. I believe the mom doesn't want the son to GO to Washington...
    I don't think PAX is the issue.. it's the fact it's so far away..

    And yea - I would def. just use that money to start living your own life..
    I'm only 17.. and that's not a lot of money to me.

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  • coolpcoolp Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    Go. Just go. If you don't then you will turn into one of those creepy comic book guy-ish kinda person, living in their parents house at 30.

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  • Evil Right Wing HenchmanEvil Right Wing Henchman Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    coolp wrote:
    Go. Just go. If you don't then you will turn into one of those creepy comic book guy-ish kinda person, living in their parents house at 30.

    And PAX is sure to change that

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  • SmileySmiley Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    By the way, I have no intention on moving out or acquiring official employment anytime soon. My father passed away last February, and I have to stay around the house to help mom out for the time being.

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  • envieenvie Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    Help her by saving her $650 and coming to PAX. ;)

    We'd love to see you there.

    envie on
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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2004
    envie wrote:
    Help her by saving her $650 and coming to PAX. ;)

    We'd love to see you there.

    His mom would be paying airfare and hotel costs. She would be out about the same amount either way.

    Sorry to hear about your father, but is your going out of town for a weekend THAT much of a big deal to your mother? If she is having real issues with the idea of her 20-year old son being out of town for a weekend, you guys have some complicated stuff that needs to be worked out.

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  • envieenvie Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    Shh. I was trying to let him come with a clean conscience! :twisted:

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  • Zig21Zig21 Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    As much fun as this is going to be, I'd recommend staying home. From the sound of things, you're now the man of the house, and she needs someone there to help her both physically and emotionally.

    Personally, I wouldn't take the money either, but that's just me. In the end, it's your decision, and you've obviously put a lot of thought into this, which is good. Just my 2 cents.

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  • DarioDario Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    if i'm not mistaken, this is the very first PAX ever, right? well, there is a chance it could be just a very boring waste of geek time.

    ...or... it could be the historical equivilant to a gamers "WOODSTOCK!".
    you can tell you're kids, generations later, "yea, i was there, rolling in the mud with nerd girls.." **rock music swells** YEA BABY!

    (...wha... no naked mud pits. well this is always-raining-seattle right? ... I'll make sure to start one at the DoubleTree. hehe)

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  • Thug LifeThug Life Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    go to PAX, it would be way more fun.

    Of course you could tell her you'll stay, get the money and go anyway.

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  • RickPowersRickPowers Registered User regular
    edited August 2004
    Stay home. Cons come and go, but you only get one Mom.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2004
    So true, Rick. Words to live by.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] new member
    edited August 2004
    If i were you, i'd go. You get to see your mom every other day of the year. But you only get to go to PAX once a year.

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