Pausing a Call of Duty session at his friend’s house, local seventh grader Samuel Zhang reported that, oh shit, his friend is yelling at his mom right now.

“We were just playing video games when his mom came in to ask him to take out the trash,” recalled Zhang, serving as unwilling audience to the mother-son tiff. “All of a sudden, he just blew up. His face got really red and he was like, calling her by her first name.”

“Brandon kept saying stuff like ‘get out of my room Susan’ and ‘I have a friend over, get out!’” Zhang continued. “And his mom kept pretending to count down from three and saying ‘there will be consequences,’ but nothing actually happened.”

“I just stared at the screen the whole time. I tried pretending I couldn’t hear them, but I remember every single word of that conversation,” said a wide-eyed Zhang, recounting how he sat in place throughout the entire interaction. “I even had to go to the bathroom at one point, but I just stayed completely still out of fear.”

At press time, Zhang suggested getting back to their video game like nothing even happened.

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