I Wrote This When I Couldn't Sleep

When I was a kid and we made too much noise late at night, my dad would burst into the room in his underwear and yell some variation of "shut up!". It didn't matter if we had friends over, he'd always be in his underwear, we were always supposed to shut up. I remember thinking as a kid that when I was an adult, I would never tell a kid to shut up. I would always listen to them and try to help them with whatever keeps them up at night. But it turns out it is not that simple. The same problems that you want to stay up late at night and discuss are all going to be there in the morning and you know what else? The morning isn't really that bad if you didn't stay up until some ridiculous hour worrying about stuff instead of getting a decent amount of sleep. As a side note, people who have no reason to sleep in but somehow think it is a badge of honor to just be waking up at noon are annoying. "Whoa, hey, eating lunch, huh? Well, I'll probably have a bowl of cereal since I just woke up! Haha! Yeah, guess I'm just gonna have breakfast and then take a little nap. Whoo!" I don't know why that guy was so peppy. Anyway, the point is that I think the older I get, the more my parents start to make sense. I'll probably need a few more years before I'm just running around the house yelling in my underwear, though.