Successful Argument

My parents and I had a huge blowout. My dad is a stubborn man when he feels that he is right and it is hard to change his mind on a topic when he has made up his mind. My mom is the more reasonable one of the two and listens to both sides of an argument. I myself am a very impatient person. I like to have the answer right now and not later. My relationship with my parents is awesome. We don’t usually argue about a lot of things and we are good at coming to a mutual agreement.

When I finally figured out I wasn’t going to win the arguement I gave up for that day. Three days later I decided to bring up the same argument again to see if I could sway their minds. We argued for another hour and I gave up yet again.

I was reading a book when my brother knocked on the door and asked me to come to Radisson with him to get fuel. My brother and I are very close-we tell each other everything. Just before we left, a good friend of ours showed up and wanted to come with us. I found this strange, but never commented on it. We left for fuel and never went back home. I began to wonder where we were going. When we got into the city my curiosity started to dwindle as to where we were going. My brother hates driving in the city so I knew something was up. Then all of a sudden I could see the top of a really tall building and Josh smiled and said, “I convinced them buddy, we are here.” I was so shocked I wasn’t sure what to say.

We had fun water sliding that night. Our room was huge with two big fluffy white beds and one great big 50 inch flatscreen situated on the wall. Off to the right of our beds was a huge bathroom with a shiny white tub. We had pizza after exhausting ourselves going up and down the three flights of stairs to the gigantic waterslides. We watched movies until two in the morning. I had a blast!

It made me feel awesome knowing that I got to do something I never thought I would ever do without my parents. From this experience, my parents may now trust me to do more things on my own. I learned from this experience that sometimes if you leave things be your parents will reconsider what you ask.