'Fine, I will water ALL the plants': Resentful teenager gets back at parent who asked them to do chores

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    SOAKER CON
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    Make me stay home so I can water all the plants? Fine, I will water ALL the plants.
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    I don't remember the exact circumstances now because this was back when I was a resentful, hormonal teenager half a century or so ago ( I'm old.) I think my mother was going shopping and I wanted to go with her, but she told me I had to stay home
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    and do chores, including watering all the plants. I apparently didn't immediately react in a polite enough manner, so she reiterated in a louder voice, "you need to water ALL the plants!"
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    So I did. Including her precious roses in the backyard. In the middle of winter.
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    When she got home and let the dog out and noticed water- related evidence in the backyard that should not have been there she started shrieking at me, what did I do, how could I be so stupid, was I trying to kill her roses, etc., and I just looked her straight in the eye and said "well you did tell me to water ALL the plants."
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    (And no, the roses did not die because it didn't get cold enough that night.)
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    CoderJoe1 I expected you to flood a couple artificial plants
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    dclxvi616 And then she got on the rotary telephone and called at least three of her friends to complain about what you did.
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    SarkyMs Why would watered roses die? It rains then freezes in the UK all winter.
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    MissusPringle Some of y'all kill me. Like when you were a hormonal teenager you never did one petty thing? I doubt it.
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    jane2857 I still see phone numbers and think how long they would take to dial.
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    Efficient_Wheel... This is something I would do and I've not been a teenager since turning 20 in 2005.

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