SS 18 does not have a phone, his friends' kid brother ran over the limit on broadband (this kid is 4 years old?) and SS could not pay the bill...I'd have asked the kid's parents to contribute but I suspect SS is full of S#!T. DH needs to be able to get hold of SS to put him to work. I have a HTC smartphone that I am not using since we upgraded, we agreed it would be OK to use that one and get a number on the family plan. SS is itching to get out of the door to go get his phone so we say go, however the bill on the account we were putting his line on was two days past due. DH said OK go and I'll pay the bill by credit card when you get there. A call came in from a good friend and associate of DH's with a consultation on work project (they help each other out a lot). I don't know about any of you but, to me, work takes priority and SS could hang for a few minutes until his dad was finished the call. SS kept calling! You know you hear the sound of another call coming in and it's distracting when it's constant, right? Especially when it's an important call. DH finally answered him and gave him the credit card number. The account was a few dollars short of the amount sooooo DH said I'll call you back with another card, gimmee a second. I get the frustration, I'd feel it too, but the boy was getting a decent phone with some decent bandwidth and all he had to do was wait a few? The boy refused to go back into the store with the credit card number, embarrassed or something? How many of us have split a purchase between two cards? Is it a big deal? DH told SS in no uncertain terms...'If you do not go and get the phone, and I cannot contact you when I need you to work, you might as well park your truck because there'll be no insurance on it, and you can hang it up boy!'
Who is proud of what used to be a guilty disney daddy?!