A few more stories to share

Again, I’ve got some more stories of adult children living at home for you, this time from the Santa Monica College Corsair newspaper. Here’s how one of the stories begins:

Cathy can’t find her shorts. She’s looked in her hamper and closet; she’s searched under her bed and carefully shifted through the stacks of clothes littering her bedroom.

“Mom!” she yells, “Have you seen my denim cutoffs?” Her mother replies aggressively, “Those old shorts? I sent them to Poland. Your relatives need them more than you do.”
And so it goes for another twenty-something who has been forced to move back with parents because of rising housing costs and plummeting employment opportunities.

You can read the rest of the article here.