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It is important to get to school on time, but sometimes that is just impossible.

What would you do if you were late to school one morning because your car wouldn’t start, and then when you got home, your parents grounded you from your phone for a week?

That is what happened to the young lady in this story, and she thinks that her parents are being unreasonable because it really wasn’t her fault.

Personally, I think that the punishment is excessive, but there isn’t much she can do about it. Read through the full story below and see if you agree.

AIO my dad is taking my phone away for a week because my car wouldn’t start and I was late to school

I’m 18 and I still live in my parents house.

If you live with your parents, you have to follow their rules.

I do not pay for my own phone because even if I did, my parents told me that they would still be able to take it away and put screen time on it because “it’s their house and they make the rules.”

I understand that, but it gets to a point. I’ve been 18 for over 3 months and I feel so out of place at school because all my friends have had their screen time removed since they were 13.

This person is a little old to not have any privacy.

They will occasionally make fun of me because of the way my parents constantly micromanage everything I do.

My parents also forced me to give my phone passcode to them because they “have a right to look through it.” I’m praying that they don’t find this post because I would be in huge trouble.

Let’s see what happened this time.

Anyways, the weather is so unpredictable where I live and I had no idea about how cold it would be.

If I would have known, I would’ve woken up earlier to prepare and start my car. I made myself a cup of coffee and didn’t even think about trying to start my car.

Everyone runs late from time to time.

School starts at 8:00 AM and by the time I was ready to leave, it was already 7:50 AM.

Also, I have a 16 year old sister (she doesn’t have a license and can’t drive herself, so I am forced to take her to school.) who always wakes up super late and even if I was able to leave the house, I couldn’t just leave her at home because otherwise my parents would be mad.

It is a terrible feeling when your car won’t start.

I took my keys and finally headed out to start my car and of course, it didn’t start.

I didn’t call my parents because my mom is a teacher and was teaching and my dad is a physical therapist and was seeing a patient at the time.

They made it to school as soon as they could.

Despite this, my sister and I were able to get the car started within 10 minutes and we made it to school about 15 minutes late.

We checked in at the office and I thought that was gonna be the end of it, but no. When I was in my English class, the vice principal walked into the classroom and headed straight to me.

This should be a simple miscommunication.

I was confused until he accused my sister and I of “skipping class” because he didn’t get a call from my parents.

I explained to him that my car wouldn’t start and he just said “well I called your parents and they said nothing about that.”

Well, sometimes you get in trouble for things, even if they aren’t 100% your fault.

I tried to explain over and over that it wasn’t our fault but he didn’t care and gave us a detention.

I got home that day and my parents, specifically my dad, was mad.

Clearly, her parents are pretty strict.

He told my sister and I to hand over our phones and said that we wouldn’t get them back for a week because we were late.

I thought it was ridiculous but my dad thought his parenting was completely reasonable.

Am I Overreacting?

Sure, maybe she should have called or texted her parents to let them know she would be late, but that isn’t a big deal. The punishment does seem too big for the crime.

Let’s see what the people in the comments have to say about this story.

Here is someone who says she should have been ready on time.

Here is a teacher who says that lots of people are late.

This commenter doesn’t think she did anything wrong.

Getting a cheap phone shouldn’t be too hard.

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This person says she should get her own phone.

She did her best to get to school on time, but she should have called. While the punishment might be a little too severe, she should just take it as a lesson learned.

Regarding her parents being strict, that will end once she can move out on her own.