"When we were like you..." Oh no, not again!!

Why is it that invariably all parents had less than what their offsprings have? Less money, less freedom,less choices... less of almost everything. And the worst part is they choose to remember this only when they don't wannna grant us the lassiez passer to do something.

Start watching a late night movie and mom wud b there with the stereotyped lies oops... lines," When we were like you, we weren't allowed to listen to even the radio. And u ppl today r hooked 24 hrs to the tv!!". I try giving a "So...?"-look, and straight she'd go to dad, kicking a fuss that I hardly know what respect is... I have no other choice but to put off the tv, lest our midnight argument disturbs our neighbours.

If I wanna bring home a guy to work on a project, I better b prepared to listen to the stories of how, "When they were like us", were not given the go-ahead to talk to boys or gals (depending on which parent chooses to counsel dat day). There'd b oodles of such instances..."we didn't wear anything except a saree those days", "our parents didn't give us any pocket money", " we used to travel only by a bicycle", etc, etc...

Now, don't think that am a spoilt brat who pays no heed to the words of my parents. I do understand what kinda life they lived, how unfortunate they were to not enjoy a life like we do... but why shud they keep reminding us of it everytime we wanna enjoy?