Not everyone lives right near the school. Some people live outside the district, and some high schools are centralized and bring kids from all over the city in to rack up an attendance of 2000+ students at one school. It's entirely plausible that the OP lived far enough away from school to have to walk 3 hours home.

Exactly. My school's in such a small town... I'm lucky to live on one of the five streets! But we have two thousand students, and we don't have buses that go all the way out into the country where most of the other students live. They're scattered few and far between four different small cities.

The average person's walking speed is around 4mph. Assuming OP moves at about that pace, and lives about 12 miles from the school, then it's entirely possible that it took her 3 hours.

Some people go to college.

@14 Yeah, it takes me just about that time.

That's what I was thinking...

haha doesn't stop him getting them back from blizzard tho!

Toons?they're called characters

They're called Toons in every non-runescape MMORPG. L2P

On WoW they are toons. L2P

I don't know what Canada's like, but in this "city" it really would not be unreasonable. If her house is out of town and she goes to a remote private school for instance, there mightn't be public transport. Her dad could refuse to pay for a cab. The odd thing about her story is that she said her dad was playing wow "for the night" implying this was not mid-afternoon when school or extracurriculars end. Makes me think she means college, not high school.

She could've had to stay at school really late for a sports game or something. Forget go all night.

Wow. Way to make sweeping generalized statements there. Just because YOU couldn't keep your gf's attention better than WOW could doesn't mean that all people who play WOW are addicted and emotionally abuse those around them. It CERTAINLY doesn't mean that they have a mental disorder.

I agree with #89. Not everyone is like that. My ex played WOW while we were dating and used to ignore me for the game all the time. One day I told him he could have his WOW or his girlfriend. he never touched the game again till we broke up. Some people just need a reality check to see that their game play is taking away their time with the people they care about. The OP should just tell her dad how she feels (Possibly with lots of yelling :) ) and he may adjust his behavior.

A big apology for those who actually want to have a discussion rather than do anything to defend their freedom playing WoW and the WoW culture in general, at any cost. I'm sorry for not qualifying everything early on. My now ex-girlfriend had children who I had to do the parenting for while I failed by not being "able to keep her attention". I think for some people, certainly her, it's an addiction. WoW players themselves joke about how they neglect their partners and children and family. It's no joke to me that people do things like make FB groups to petition WoW playing boyfriends and girlfriends out of a world made of polygons. It's completely f'ed up that that girl had to drag herself home, neglected by a her. Forfeiting your responsibilities as parent like that you have to be mentally incapable to make decisions. So someone else has to make them for you! A few considerations: "a parent not wanting to cater to their daughter's poor planning" (kiit) When you're a parent -- and I'm not -- your responsibility is to the child not worrying if you're being disturbed when you're "bunked down". And clearly if you are for the night your child is out, walking home, there's something wrong with the way you prioritise and who for. Making up details about what the situation may have really been being that you think she's not credible, ie drinking while playing -- which he shouldn't have done since his daughter wasn't safely home yet -- doesn't help. Detail you should be speculating about is if he has a job and perhaps not feeding her properly, much less cab rides home. And showing a general interest in her -- are you serious about a cab? Going by what wyld3fyr3's saying getting in a cab for anyone must be like a mount in WoW: it'll just take you where you want to go. OP should surely summon her mount. "OP should just tell her dad how she feels (Possibly with lots of yelling :) ) and he may adjust his behavior" (JessAngelus) It isn't for the daughter to moderate the dad's behaviour. If he's letting her roam the streets alone presumably she a teen, at that age the dad should be *actively* moderating what she does and where she is. If he needs this yelling, which may work, he needs reeducation for his role as the responsible adult who he is. Or in this case isn't. "How bout friends?" (legit_tofit) Well he doesn't, just pixels on the screen, how would she know how to make any to have them give her a ride. At an age where someone needs their dad to drive them, they probably don't have a friend who drives. Or do you mean the friend of the dads, who if they exist is a complete idiot for helping when the dad isn't under any pressure to fulfil his role? Or is WoW a pressure? Did she intend on walking home every day, those 3 hours? (Exerci) Since when do kids decide where they go to school. Dead beat dads and mums probably defer that and any other part of their parenting to anyone, why not their children? Your parents "pretty much just laugh at me, unless it was an emergency" at 12 miles distance, which in my units is 30 km is the distance across the capital city I live in. You haven't reached the maturity where you realise that your parents had their own reasons for neglecting you. Glad to see you made it to university against pretty hefty odds! "WoW people apparently aren't real people" (also Exerci) All WoW people are people. I emphasise, some only use the 'but we're also *people*' arguement when it's about them! He would say the same until a raid rips his attention from his daughter. Then she could get a cab, walk countless miles, be in her bedroom out on the street! Those who can't say no to a raid or put themselves in town to pick up their children in the real world where young girls get violated and kidnapped or at least feel shit about themselves because their dad cares more about being an 80 Mage! Or is it that you mean your a person who should be respected as a made up character?

TL;DR On a more interesting note, shut the **** up you chatty opinionated arsehole.