Dad's top two fast food optons for fast-food: Pizza and Harvey's= boring
I have this one problem with my Dad. when Dad tries to be nice to Mom when she did a lot of work or is tired we get fast food from outside the house. His first option is always is Pizza and normally I would be okay with that but Wednesday is Mom and my last day-trip into Bard's town and that means when we get back to Toto-we'll be eating at Boston Pizza. So this time and last time we got food-I just told Mom "no Pizza" because the last thing I want to be eating is Pizza all week- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, etc. In July, when Mom and I went to Boston pizza after just barley finishing a pizza from the previous week, neither mom nor I were really in the mood for Pizza again.
So when Pizza isn't an option, Dad's next logical choice is Harvey's and so far this summer I had Harvey's 3.5 times:
once on my birthday and I took a meal home to eat the next day four supper because Mom wasn't avaible on either of those nights for supper. On a Monday in Mid-August, and tonight.
And know what other options we have to go too? Here's the following:
McDonald's (not that I would have wanted that, I been to McDonald's like 4 times this year: once in March, once in April, once in June (parents' anniversary and the parents were eating out and let me go get an extra fast-food meal), and once in July (I wanted to try an McDonald's Iced Coffee
Wendy's
and Dad can easily get to a Burger King that's really complicated for me to get to but is an only a 7min drive for him in the car.
and another problem is that it kind of messes up any plans I have to get food during the following week or something. I was planning on getting fast-food next week (not that I would be getting Harvey's), but I don't know if I should after having fast-food this week
It just Dad seem to be so semi-focused on either getting Pizza (and ONLY from one place and no sides LC) or only getting food from Harvey's and it gets really tiring only getting food from those two places. The only good thing is that Harvey's I get Pop and sides (Frings-onion and french fries) something I don't get from Pizza and I also get to have a hot dog because Harvey's the only chain that does that
For most of the year, I try to once a month go to a restaurant in town to get some food and I, unlike my Dad, at least don't continuously go to the same restaurant over and over and over again.
I try to do it like this: One month might be McDonald's, another month Wendy's, another month Tim Horton's, another month Burger King, another Month Taco Bell, and then another Month Harvey's.
@Disneywoman
HI there.
How frustrating! They say that variety is the spice of life. And I can see that there is not much food variety in your life. No wonder you find it boring.
Unfortunately you only have control over what you do, you can't change someone else. Of course from your point of view the best thing would be if your dad bought different options. But I guess from his point of view, this isn't the best option for him. Unless you always want to be frustrated about this, maybe you need to think about what you could do differently.
Could you prepare your own food? And just ignore whatever it is that your dad gets for you? Or offer to get the dinner yourself and get something different? There's lots of information out there on how to prepare food and it can be lots of fun. And with a bit of savy, it can be a lot cheaper than take away.
If you had your own place, you could eat whatever you want. So could you start planning for getting your own place? Start thinking about how you can save up the money, for example.
I'm sorry I have no easy solution for you. Unfortunately life isn't handed to us on a plate. If we do nothing, we have to accept what we are given. So maybe it is time for you to start thinking about how you can get out there and get what you want?
@Clio9876
There's nothing I could do differently' that's the problem -the only thing I could control was the fact I told Mom to say "no" to Pizza due to the fact both this time and last time, that she and I were going to be having Pizza later in the week. Since we're going to be doing that, I really didn't want to be eating pizza for a day before and days after since Pizza would have been Dad's first choice to get food.
"Could you prepare your own food? And just ignore whatever it is that your dad gets for you? Or offer to get the dinner yourself and get something different? There's lots of information out there on how to prepare food and it can be lots of fun. And with a bit of savy, it can be a lot cheaper than take away."
-I could, but it was really late the first time we had Harvey's 8pm ish and if i was going to make my own food I would have been eating at 7pm. Also because its now Sept, I really don't want to be making supper more then I have too since Mom's gone back to choir practices on Thursday nights now.
Both times we gotten Harvey's I had to go along to carry stuff but I end up baby-sitting Dad Like back in June when he and I went for my birthday-he tried to get me to move over farther then I was supposed too but I knew better- I'm basically the fast food expert in the house.
Then last month when we got Harvey's I had to prompt Dad to say he wanted Frings (onion rings and French Fries) and a drink for his and Mom's meals-despite the fact he had a piece of paper with the instructions on it. and I had to make sure that Dad didn't instruct the worker to not put spicy peppers on Mom's burger that time as well.
and Last time I had to baby-sit Dad because he wanted to get idea but he almost get himself water from the soda- fountain by accident -its a good thing I was paying attention.
"If you had your own place, you could eat whatever you want. So could you start planning for getting your own place? Start thinking about how you can save up the money, for example."
-Moving out isn't an option and never will be unless I moved into a group home and while I would be a totally Hermione granger prior to the Halloween incident of '91 if you get what I mean. (I follow the rules a bit too much in other words). I can't move out because I'm on Disability income and I can't get a paying job without the problems of being kicked off of DI and having to pay my much-needed medication out of pocket if I "earned too much money".
@Disneywoman
Is there a chance your dad is depressed? Constant criticism can really eat away at a person's self esteem to the point where they don't care much what they eat. Many guys report that they get very few compliments. Does your dad get many?
@whimsicalAlli I been trying to check in on him each day when I see him because he's often been away dealing with legal or other business for a late friend's house. He's the legal excutor so its been exhausting for him dealing with all the stupid people he has to deal with like the bank and relator and such.
Both me and my older sister who doesn't live with us have self-esteem issues, because of him and he has self esteem issues due to his father (whom died in 1999) who propbably had his own self-esteem issues, etc.
It just I would like to eat something then *bacon* Harvey's or pizza for a *bacon* change when we need to get food from outside the *bacon* house.
