So I have been living with my mom and brother for the past 19 years. For 18 of those years she has been a single parent. I went through some troubles when I was younger but got my act cleaned up and finished high school to go on to college. I didn't end up staying in college as I was totally unprepared for that level of academics. My mom also used to be sober for 12 years and recently started drinking again due to the death of her father. So enough with the background info here is the situation I need a judgement on. I went out to a friends house last night under her consent, and at around 2 am my phone died and I fell asleep watching a movie. As soon as I woke up I borrowed my friends charger and got home around 10 am. My mom leaves for work at 7 am and she apparently had a small panic attack when she saw my car wasn't there. She even went so far as to go online and check my call history to see if she could find out where I was. So when I woke up I text her to let her know what had happened and she replied with an all capital letter text which read something like don't leave the house stay there until I get home we need to talk. So I did as she asked, and while she was off at work I cleaned the entire house and did all the chores that were needing to be done in the hopes that maybe it would brighten her mood a little. So she gets home at 4 pm and begins to lay into me about how worried she was and demands my car keys and cell phone. When I try to ask her if we can sit down and talk rationally about the situation she blows up and starts screaming at me about how I can just move out if I don't want to live by her rules (her language choice was a bit more colorful) . So I give her my keys and give her my phone without the battery but she also demands the battery. When I ask her why she screams again about her house and her rules so I give her all of the stuff she wants. She then tells me that I can't leave the house to see friends or drive or use my phone for a week or until I can be trusted again. When I tried to approach her a second time to talk about it reasonably she just got even more angry and told me that if I didn't go down to my room she would "lose her ". So what should I do here? I mean I'm absolutely puzzled as to any way that I can approach her in this situation. Any ideas?

You are lucky, I most likely would do more.

Yes, you were wrong, you needed to have called, used his phone to call mom, hooked up the charger so phone works right then and called. No excuse not calling as soon as you woke up.

And yes if she is paying the bills for the car for the cell phone and more, you would have lost it all for a while.

I'd say there is nothing worse than not knowing where your kid is and discover that they've been gone all night. There is a 'ditch theory' I used on mine, and they would know I'd be thinking they were dead in a ditch because they didn't have the sense God gave a billygoat to call home if plans changed...

You only got a week without privileges- and she had every right to be angry- and being that angry means she was scared to death.And that, when you think about it, pales to your experience of simply falling asleep watching a movie.

Be more careful and thoughtful the next time. At least let her know where you are, so that if you do fall asleep, she will know where to reach you.