mother's wise words

My mom shared a pearl of wisdom with me today.

"You can't change men, so learn to change yourself(to adapt)"

This came to be because I was fixing a Christmas present for my cousin cuz it broke. So I glued it, and my dad asked me to glue the edge more for reinforcement. I was fine with that so I was like, "ok" and got the krazy glue out. when I do this, my dad keeps asking these questions and totally gets on my nerves! like it's cool that he's curious, but he's like obsessive over the littlest things!!! AND! he'll always do things behind my back! Like with this present! I leave for school he goes back and gets the krazy glue and adds a ton more to it and makes it looks like shit cuz there's glue all over it. Like wtf?! He doesn't know how to stop. It's the same with laundry. he can't accept my way of doing laundry, and will always go back when I leave to change something. My sister and I have deduced that he has obsessive compulsive disorder. He drives me nutso sometimes when he does these things! I had enough glue!!! nothing is good enough for him when it comes to the handyman jobs. So I eventually complain to my mom for him messing it up, and she tells me that quote I just put above, and that's her advice to me to deal with my father. I think it's unfair cuz he should make an effort to change and not me. I deal with enough. But you can't change this man. No matter how many times you tell him or how many facts you give him he'll still leave the car idling for 15 mintues before driving. 10 minutes if it's nice out. cuz he thinks it's good for the car. yeah right dad, yeah right. OCD I tell ya.

I hope I don't turn out like him and nit pick the stupidist things.