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I (F17) am a senior in high school. I am a boarding school student 1.5-3 hours away from home depending on traffic. I play two varsity sports and we are in season for my secondary. I only play because it is similar to my primary sport and there are a lot of the same people. I don’t have a ton of playing time but I do it for the people and because it is a fun game.

Yesterday was my senior day for the secondary sport and we had two games. Before the first game we did our senior celebration with the posters and pictures and our coach talked a little bit about each of us, it was really sweet and we had a great time. I was able to start the game(big deal bc i lowk suck lol) and my mom showed up halfway through the first quarter. Obviously I wish she had been there for the speeches but like we aren’t super close and life happens so I didn’t mention it.

We won both of our games and had an overall great day and I left with her because she was taking me home for the night. On the way to the car she starts talking about how sorry she was to have missed it and how bad traffic was and I didn’t want to make her feel bad so I said that it was fine.

We get into the car and are talking and whatever and around an hour into the drive(45 mins to go) she starts talking about it again. Saying there was a ton of traffic, she left 30 mins later than she told me she was going to, and a million other excuses for why she wasn’t there. I asked what she wanted me to say, she was late and missed her first part. She told me that she wanted me to tell her it is ok. I responded saying that it kinda wasn’t and it was upsetting not to have her there and she got really mad at me. We didn’t talk much for the rest of the drive.

We got home and went to bed and whatever and this morning somehow it got brought up again with my dad. I’m still salty that she wasn’t there because it happens all of the time but she got mad again and kept trying to make excuses for why she didn’t come. I had a train to catch to get back to school so she drove me to the train and as I was getting out of the car I said I’ll see you on Wednesday (for my primary sport’s signing day) if she could make it on time.

For context I didn’t really want to do the signing thing because I hate being the center of attention but my parents really wanted me to so I am.

My mom and dad are both saying that my comment was below the belt but she is always late to major events and I don’t really know what to say beyond the fact that it sucks when she tells me she will be somewhere but isn’t.

What I want to know is if I am wrong for being mad about the fact that she was late and for not really expecting that she will be on time for the signing day.