Parents nagging

Ok, I should be glad. Last time it was 10.30pm, then it became 11pm, now it is 11.30pm.

I'm talking about the time my mother and father start SMS/calling me to
1) ask what time I will be home,
2) tell me that it is very late already
3) reiterate that Singapore is not as safe as I think it is and that there are rapists around.

Only that their intentions are now backfiring. The more they make me go home, the more I want to stay out. Pearlin told me that it is because they are concerned about me, and that, I have no doubt. But I am not on the other side of Singapore or at Clarke Quay or at some club or pub. I am barely 1.6 km away from home, at a Mcdonald's near my Secondary School after band practice ended at 10pm, having an unplanned supper with Pearlin, whom they have met before.

Within an hour from 11.30pm to 12.30am, I received first a missed call from my father, then a SMS from him, then a SMS from my mother (directly after my father), then another from my mother (to tell me that my father is not happy I am out so late and I had better go home now because her ear is very itchy from my father's nagging). I have since learnt to give up trying to convince them that I am safe to soothe their anxiety or to flare up at them. I give one word or one sentence replies and 20 minutes later get my butt off the chair and head home.

I should be glad that they are concerned.

Repeats to self: I should be glad that they are concerned. I should be glad that they are concerned. I should be glad that they are concerned. I should be glad that they are concerned. I should be glad that they are concerned. I should be glad that they are concerned.

On one hand, I don't want to regret. On the other hand, I am getting irritated.