Ask Buddy Installment Number 26

What better to do than to give sage advice, as seen following, to another 'Needy' soul. 

Dear Mr. Buddy, I sure hope and practically pray, not that I'm a religious nut or something like that, but I Am a great 'hoper' for sure. What's Your favorite thing to hope for Buddy? I bet you hope you can solve everybody's problems without breaking a sweat! I sure hope so! Well, at least for my own! Right? Well, I wont waste your time with small chat Buddy, so I'll get right to it here.     I'm 48 years old, and like most of my friends I still live with my parents, I don't have a job yet but I 'hope' to have one someday. I really like living here because I don't have to pay rent or contribute to anything while doing it. Pretty cool huh? The problem is, my parents keep bugging me to get a job and a place of my own because they want to retire and 'downsize', whatever that is! Downsize?? Are they really trying to become 'smaller' than they already are?? How crazy is That!? I told them to just go on a diet and stop eating all of my snacks! Good grief! But why should I have to get a job, and the last thing I want to do is find a place of my own! Shoot! I have it right here! Actually, I think They should find a place of Their own and stop bothering me while I'm playing my computer games! Their house is paid for so whatta they got to lose!      So, are they just crazy and lazy or is it just me? And how can I convince them that They should move out so that I can live as I've become accustomed to?   Thanks Buddy, I just know you'll have a good answer to my problems. Your friend in need.

Dear Needy, to answer your first question; No, No, and of course, Yes.   To answer your second question, just follow my instructions without fail. Remember, it's your 'parents' that have the problems that are way bigger than your own, or actually, as big as yourself. 

  Here's what you will do, and also remember that it was You that asked for advice.  First you must use 'reverse phycology' on your unfortunate parents. Keep in mind that they are likely by now elderly and easily influenced, which makes Your job a whole lot easier.  This means that you convince them, in their owns minds anyway, that the following scenario is 'Their' idea and not your own, even though it Is your own idea. Don't get confused yet. If you want I can type reaaalll slooow. Now, just tell them that maybe they Should go ahead and 'downsize', whatever that means to You. Then, and this is where the 'tricky mind play' comes in, tell them that you've decided to 'move out', actually you will simply go and sponge off of one of your likewise friends while your parents go about 'getting smaller'. It takes a few months for a person to 'downsize' getting 'smaller' so have patients and give them plenty of time to get there. Tell them you will positively move back in without fail in four months, and wish them luck in 'downsizing'. Give them plenty of encouragement at first but leave them totally alone after you 'temporally' move out. Wait four months and then just do a 'drive-by', no, Not That kind of 'drive-by', just drive down their street and cruise past your former home and see if they are still there. If still there wait another four months. 'Downsizing' is not easily, or always quickly done. I think you are going to be really 'surprised' at how well this works out for you!   Good luck Needy! Be sure to give me an update. Remember, You asked for it. ;) ;)