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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At 17 I had a retail job.  If I was driving home after working until close I'd stop and pick up food for myself on the way home.  It never would have occurred to me to ask or expect my parents to bring home food after a date night.[/quote]

Agree.  And to add to that, the daughter didn’t even want food from the restaurant they were in.  She expected parents to make an additional stop to get her carry out from somewhere else. Sorry, that is bananas [/quote]

Not true

She asked what we ate and if we could bring her something.[/quote]

She could have stopped on the way home and got herself something.  Why does it matter what you ate? It would never occur to be to ask me parents to bring me takeout when I was 17 (and also worked doubles on weekends) and they went out to dinner.  Same if my husband goes out to dinner.  So here you have an almost adult child that won’t /can’t make themselves a simple meal, won’t eat leftovers, and won’t get their own takeout. College will be rough. [/quote]

She means where did you eat.. chinese/thai

It's because normal course of events her parents bring something home. This was the 1st time the mom decided to do it differently without communicating this to her.

We always text in the family group text we are getting food somewhere does anybody want something. Seems like that was a norm for this family ( from the 1st post - have also brought carryout most times home for them when they didn't go.)  until the mom decided without communicating the change in their way of working to not bring her food home.

The daughter didn't say she "can't make food"... the mom's lack of communication left her without food and since the norm was to "bring somethign home for her" the daughter was like what is going on, why the change.

I'd rather pick something up and have it ready at 10pm when my kid gets home than to start cooking at 10pm and I would also expect the same thing from my family ... even though i'm a full grown adult and can cook. [/quote]

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