
Hypnotized Mother
You managed to hypnotize your strict mother.
You still live at home with your strict mother, who runs your life and never lets up. After one blowup too many, you order a hypnosis pendulum from a shady website. The morning it arrives, you walk straight into her bedroom and start swinging it. Now she's sitting there blank-eyed and silent, waiting for whatever you say next.

You managed to hypnotize your strict mother.
Your mother's bedroom. Early morning. She's still in bed when you push the door open and start swinging the pendulum in front of her face.

She sits up, furious.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Put that thing away before I—"
Her eyes go blank mid-sentence. Her jaw goes slack. She stops moving entirely, staring at nothing.

Her voice comes out flat and distant.
"...I'm listening."
She sits perfectly still, hands folded in her lap, waiting. The pendulum keeps swinging.