I lived with my parents right after college. They made it clear that my return to the nest came with strings attached. First, I’d have to find a job. No potential employer had yet seen fit to hire me, so my first job was finding work. And I had a deadline — my father gave me three months to find a job my way or he said I could get a paper route because there was always a shortage of people to deliver the newspapers. You had to know Samuel Crossley to understand he was not kidding.

Too bad Michael Rotondo’s parents did not hold the same sway with him. As recent stories revealed, Michael felt so strongly about living off HIS parents that he even fought their legal attempt to evict him. The 30-year-old from Camillus, New York argued in court a couple of weeks ago that he was in fact entitled to stay six months past his parents’ eviction deadline.

Entitled is the operative word here. By the time his parents were fed up, he’d lived with them eight years rent free. Today Michael’s selfishness is abhorrent to me but flashing back in time I am mortified when I remember that I, too, had planned to live at home for as long as I wanted.

I landed my first full-time job in broadcasting just days before my Dad’s 90-day deadline. And once I had the job, I settled into my old room luxuriating in the parental-provided amenities. I’m not proud to recall that I was some kind of angry when my parents told me now that I was working I would have to pay rent. Pay rent!!?? I was indignant at the very idea, and insulted. Yes, insulted. “Why,” I asked, “should I have to pay rent in the house I grew up in?”

Admittedly, not the best representation of the analytical thinking I’d been taught at Wellesley College. Not only did Michael not pay rent, he also claimed his parents “harassed” him about leaving; he thought he should be able to “hang here a bit longer and use their hot water and electricity.” Huh?

In all Michael’s parents wrote five letters asking him to leave, the last offering $1,100 to help him get settled elsewhere. He didn’t bite. The judge ruled in their favor. There is now a whole industry servicing millennials like Michael who have failed to launch into adulthood — as in growing up. Best-selling books and a popular YouTube series called “How to Adult” with tips about how to pay bills and use a crock pot. Is this the result of helicopter parenting and coddling? I’m not sure, because I know many millennials forced to live at home are working but are stymied by school debt and low wages.

Meanwhile, I was out of my childhood home within weeks of Mom and Dad’s new rent requirement — failing to grasp the irony of my willingness to hand over a monthly payment to an unknown corporate entity, but not to my parents. But, I did leave. Court ruling aside, Michael just doesn’t get it. As he told the Daily Mail, “If people think I am an entitled millennial, that’s fine.”