Anybody dealing with curfew during the summer?

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<p>I usually live on school apartments during the year so I don't have this problem so much but during the summer break I flew back to korea since that's where my parents live.</p>

<p>I work so I could pay for my plane tickets...... AND the place I work at provides sleeping accomodations but.. stupidly I didn't take it because I usually don't like sleeping in foreign places....</p>

<p>BUTTTTTTT
My parents go insane if i don't come in by 12! (or mom by 10-11).</p>

<p>Like usually I dont even do anything, I just sit at home. I don't like partying, I don't sleep with people, I don't do drugs or any of that sort.</p>

<p>but since I work I hang out with my students and fellow group leaders who work with me after work (that's like you know 8:10 by the time we are done)</p>

<p>They go drinking and stuff yes but over here I'm legal.. and most importantly.. I DON'T DRINK HERE! I drink like friggin 7 Up/ Coke! I had like 1/4 shotglass of kiwi soju (that's like 5% alcohol) the whole summer break and that was just because I was curious about the kiwi taste. They are usually like since your older bro doesn't drink, you shouldn't either. Be a good christian, you know?</p>

<p>I JUST want to hang out with people that's really it. Most people stay out til like 3?</p>

<p>I don't even wish for 3 am, I just wish my curfew was at least @ like 1AM but acc to my parents HELL NO. All the other girls of course have dorms so they stay out as late as they want.</p>

<p>I would sleep at my friends place with a dorm but she doesn't stay out late so she goes home at like 10 so I can't go to her place at like 3 you know?</p>

<p>TODAY they were like behave well or something because I came in @ 12:15 like I go sleeping around or something! my friend (who works with me) gave me a ride on his scooter and they were like OMG!</p>

<p>Even when i was in high school i could stay out until at least like 1 =_=.</p>

<p>I know some people would be like do that when you go back to school in the states but TOTALLY DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE here and there. It's really not as fun staying out in the states personally for me because my friends don't do anything;;;</p>

<p>I sound like a friggin angsty teenager and I shouldnt have to, because I'm a grown person, I work to make my own money that I spend and I usually live away from parents ANYWAY.</p>

<p>Does anybody else have this sorta problem during summer break?</p>

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<p>Yeah, I had this problem when i was 14</p>

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<p>My mom says that as long as I'm under her roof, it's her rules. If I don't like it, I can get out.</p>

<p>Why don't you just move into the dorms for your job if it's that bad? It's not like it will be foreign for long. You did the same thing when you went to college and chances are that you will have to sometime again.</p>

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<p>I'd say, screw parental control. Its overrated.</p>

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<p>What are they going to do if you keep showing up late? Ground you?</p>

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<p>I had a strict 11 o'clock curfew in high school. But I just never adhered to it. I got yelled at a few times and then my parents just gave up. Nowadays I don't even go out while I'm home.</p>

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<p>I TRIED to move back into the dorms but my boss wouldn't let me since its midway through our work contract.
The thing is I thought I would have to share rooms with other people.. and I have a triple with single room next year so I didn't want to go through that earlier... sigh.</p>

<p>My parents don't really care about my bro's curfew as much although they do call him too. >_< I think alot of you guys replying are men... parents get on my case more because I'm a girl and apparently I can't take care of myself right? RIGHT.</p>

<p>Apprently more girls in korea get ridiculous curfews like 9 or something o.O holy shizz</p>

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What are they going to do if you keep showing up late? Ground you?

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HAHAHAHA good joke. No, my parents are asian, we don't believe in grounding people. Just probably a beat down (LOL prob not though since im older/but I'm back in the country where that's totally normal and not illegal) OR most likely LOTS AND LOTS OF YELLING. and my mom attacking me with whatever she can grab (shoes/brushes/etcetc). If you are asian you probably experienced this.</p>

<p>Apparently if I stay out late, I can get kidnapped/die/raped etc etc. Because you know, my mom totally got that from that one movie Taken (the kidnapped bit) and I keep her telling her to stop watching movies so much</p>

<p>but yeah they aren't like my roof my rules. It's more like even in the states you use MY money so you should do whatever I want you guys to do until you guys make your own money (and probably afterwards too) Yeah although they don't really actually pay that much....</p>

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<p>I've never had a curfew and my parents could care less.</p>

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<p>let me tell you something.
I'm sorta in the same situation as you.
I'm collegebound and so what if I dont come back with the car before 12 30? Ground me? Seriously.
They are not going to ground you. They just miss having the supreme control over you back in your high school days. You make your own decisions.</p>

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<p>never had a curfew either.</p>

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<p>^I never had one until I got arrested for curfew violation when I was 15. If I don't follow it, my car is taken away (my mom bought it for me). It's happened ONCE and since then, I make sure to not risk it. </p>

<p>My mom stays up until I come home (to make sure I don't die or something I guess), so I try to not stay out too late. Besides, parties get too crazy after 1:30 and I am trying to stay out of trouble. Nothing is worse than trying to explain that crazy accident that happened by some drunk person.</p>

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<p>it can be hard, but just remember you'll be back in school soon enough where they won't have any control.</p>

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<p>well i just talked BACK to my mom and now my mom's yelling at me great. She also took away the cell phone and called me several things LOLZ. There's no grounding like I said she try to hit me with a friggin broom like a crazy asian mom she is</p>

<p>she's like you are only twenty and until I die im your mother blah blah and I yelled at her not to come live next to me because I want to make my own decisions etc etc.Apparently that's too much decision making for moi according to her =_=
she also made a facebook account trying to friend me and my bro (creepy) </p>

<p>I mentioned my bro and she's like "he's a boy and you are a girl, totally different"</p>

<p>Man i hope she doesn't come and live with me @ school (which she tried to.. and is still trying) because I stay out all night working on my project and stuff anyhow</p>

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<p>oh koreans. btw how do you get arrested for curfew violation? i think thats a second class offense</p>

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<p>i pretty much have to be home by 2 or stay overnight wherever i am..it's not that my parents don't trust me (though, granted, they probably shouldn't haha), it's that they're afraid something will happen to me and my mom seriously can't sleep unless she knows i'm home.
i understand where they're coming from (especially being a girl), but it drives me crazy after total freedom at school--i best be staying in chapel hill next summer!</p>

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<p>I'm not Korean, but i have a crazy asian mom. I don't exactly have a curfew persay (freakin 22), but my mom always has to make some type of remark when i come home late.
My little brother on the other hand who just graduated HS stays out almost as long as I do gets yelled at every so often about his clothes, the way he acts sometimes, and how he comes home late.</p>

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<p>*btw how do you get arrested for curfew violation? *
If you are under 16 and out past 11 on the weekend, or between 16-18 and out past 1 on weekends. On weekdays it is an hour sooner. I was outside my friends house and her neighbors called in because we were "being loud". Basically you can't be out in public without a legal gaurdian/parent after that time. Maybe that's just a Oklahoma thing?</p>

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<p>Yeah Oklahoma has a curfew. The town i used to live in, Edmond, OK had it too but nobody really cared all that much attention to it.</p>

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If you are under 16 and out past 11 on the weekend, or between 16-18 and out past 1 on weekends.

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<p>that's like..orwellian to me..awful</p>

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<p>no curfew is almost every other state i think. i was just wondering how you got caught because its usually a second offense.</p>