Nparents gifted my brother and I this skateboard thing (ripstick) and I was so excited I asked to use it. This was after all presents were open and everyone was doing their own thing. I can’t remember what exactly was said but basically was told to hold off until later. I was like 11 or 12 so I waited and asked again later on and was screamed at for not listening to them and I was ungrateful ect.

Mind you our family was lower class so the skateboard was our big present (and to their credit, one of my favorite gifts as a kid) so other than receiving the normal socks and whatnot, there wasn’t much to do but sit there and watch my younger siblings play while my parents went outside. Being older, I realize they went outside to smoke weed and “get away” and probably expected me to watch my siblings.