I graduated High school back in 2010 so I try to remember the best I can, I live in Texas, but lived across the border to Mexico because to be honest it'sr way cheaper to live over there when you are making money here in the US...
My high school graduation was in the middle of June which is the hottest days of the year imagine having to dress nicely for a graduation to be done in the middle of a football field on a scorching summer day... I had told my mom about this and she still wanted to bring my now 4 yr old little brother to the graduation, Since I was busy with all of this I told her to invite our family to this, this meant my uncles, aunts, and specially my grandparents, she said she did but since I was busy with the whole graduation and enrolling into college I believed her.
Day came and she didn't tell a soul about my graduation, she just told me everyone was busy and to deal with it later, since graduation was going to start in a few minutes I just had to suck it up. (turns out she didn't tell anyone because she deemed this to be our family matters). After almost 3 hours in the heat the graduation ended and my mother was nowhere to be seen... My friends where inviting me to their graduation parties and I wanted to get my mom's permission for this. so I called her...
Me: "Hey mom where are you??"EM:" Oh I went to go get the car early so we can avoid traffic.". I'm here thinking that this is perfect so i can tell her I will go hang out with my friends at a graduation party so she can go back. EM: " no you can't we need to back home since they are saying theres people fighting each other and it can get ugly and we need to get home and be safe...". I told my friends about this and sadly I did not go to any graduation party, when I got into the car I noticed that there's Chick-fil-a in there, and I am confused as to why is that there since we didn't get any on our way to my graduation...
EM: " your brother was getting fussy because of the heat and hungry so I took him to chick-fil-a". I was mad, but maybe she went like after they called my name since they were going in alphabetical order and I was one of the first ones that they called that way she could get a picture of me being handed my diploma and she said something that to this day I hate for it... Em: " we left 20 mins after it started...". Me: "wtf at least did you bring me anything to eat?"EM:" no, here's some left over chicken tenders from you brother..."
I assumed she was going to take me to a nice restaurant and I would meet my other family there... NOPE... We went straight home and I didn't even eat dinner, I felt so ashamed and unappreciated that I just went to my room closed my door, turned off my lights and cried myself to sleep... Yes I don't hate to admit it I was an 18yr old male that cried himself to sleep because his EM made him feel his life was not worth anything in her books or anybody else in particular.
For the record my dad used to work in Ohio at that time of the year unfortunately that is also the busiest and he couldn’t come to my graduation, when I told him what my mom did he was upset so much they were nearly to the point of divorce, but luckily they didn’t... my dad is very level headed unlike my mom.