[Not A Snowbird]

My parents got around that by sending me to their room.

Ouch! Now that hurts.

[Xenalyte]

Oh, I can't begin to tell you how much it sucked. No books, no TV, no stereo, no piano, no NOTHING!

(Yeah, the piano was in my bedroom. It was Mom's clever ploy to get me to clean my room before the piano teacher came over.)