rant · moment 8 of 16
Houses Where You Could Let It All Out vs. Houses You Had to Behave In
from 163 - How To Be Popular · #163
2 min
Tim reminisces about friends' houses growing up — one chaotic and permissive (Jill Monster's), one where you had to behave (Maeve's), and one where the parents fed him after a hit-and-run — as a lesson in reading social environments.
- Tim describes having a friend whose house was a place to let loose and be wild, versus rich friends' houses where you had to behave.
- At Joe's house, Tim could show up drunk at 3 a.m. after hitting a car and hiding from police, and Joe's parents would feed him seafood gumbo instead of kicking him out.
- Some houses had unsupervised rooms where friends could watch porn, make noise at night, and generally do whatever they wanted without parental oversight.
- Tim calls mutual abuse between friends in those uninhibited spaces "a beautiful thing" that needs to happen in certain situations.
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