(Long Rant) any advice on cheap activities?

[CrushedGirly]

My father can be soo annoying! To the extreme piont! Why does he do this? So he can get my attention apparantly. But after I have said 'what' more than once it's clear that person has my attention. So why bug me even further? It's not going to help you. And of course after I'm completely annoyed he asks a favor from me. Now maybe if he hadn't just bugged me relentlessly for a miunute long out of his own pleasure, then maybe I would feel like helping him with whatever it is he wanted done, or moved, or picked up. Seriously. Then!, oh then he gets mad at me for not helping, making me feel bad by telling me how much he's done for me. Now granted I am mostly aware of his efforts to helping me grow and mature and do things I wanted to do and were without doubt a lot thanks to my father. And I know I can never repay him, no matter how many chores I do or how many favors I submit myself to or how many thanks I give him. And THEN he goes on to WARN me that he'll remember 'this' and that he knows some things that are coming up that without his help I wouldn't be able to do. Mainly a lot of this stuff has to do with money. The green that I don't have. No job. No allowance, not anymore at least. One babysitting gig, not till later this summer and only a week long. But EVERYTHING costs money. You wanna visit someone... Car needs gas. Maybe if I lived close to people I got along with I could walk. You wanna read? Eight dollars for paperback. Now I don't know about others but I have NOTHING coming in, so I rely on the good nature and hard work of my parents to pay for me. I suppose I could get a job, but I wouldn't know where to start. I cannot cook to save my life, unless I had step by step directions. I could I dunno, maybe work at PetSmart or something. Oh yeah that reminds me I still have to look into volunteering at the humane society, they moved! To the other side of town. Not what I wanted. So I guess my story spilled over into something different, but somehow related. So what can I do that doesn't cost money that I overlooked, or is cheap and fun?? I'm definitley an active type of girl but I'm down with doing reading and stuff like that. I can drive myself places but not others, yet. And I'm only seventeen. My parents are NOT rich and have financial problems of their own. Answers are greatly appreciated.