Waiting: A Circle of Hell

I know Dante didn't make WAITING one of the circles of hell, but he lived in a different lifetime, and he probably didn't have children.

With the onset of omnipresent technology, teenagers are more willing to "wait" for something to happen (whatever the hell that might be), because while they "wait", they are sitting on their asses on the couch with their phones in their faces and the TV blaring stupid, loud, noise.

So when my 14-year-old tells me that she's going to her friend's house "later", all that means is, "fuck off, I'll do something eventually ... maybe."  It's all a ploy to get me to leave her alone so she doesn't have to actually DO anything, because she's "just about ready" to go somewhere (a time frame which might last 15 minutes or six hours).  It's truly ridiculous.

Why do I care?  Because she's not fucking doing ANYTHING, besides cramming her phone in her face and watching shitty reality TV shows.  I would prefer to do something with her (which I have tried to do several times - her attention span is about 15 minutes with me, but four hours with Jelly Splash), or for her to have a hobby (god forbid), or to actually leave the house, so it's quiet and I can read my book without hearing Nev's voice in the background talking about some dumbass being catfished.

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To be honest, I just walked away from writing this and tried to get her motivated, so we played catch in the living room with a tennis ball for about an hour, and then she told me (for about the 20th time) that she is still waiting for her friend so they can hang out.  Such bullshit.  Just get the fuck up and do something.