My moment of "Oh Well"
Apr. 5th, 2006 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgThis had been in the works for months. Niece's boy had a birthday - his 12th - in February, and made the honor roll.
One of the things we'd noted when we'd had him that weekend, was that he didn't have a watch.
So. This past weekend, we decided to take him out and get him one. A nice one. One that didn't come from Burger King and kept decent time. And we'd let him pick it out.
He ended up with a $200 Fossil. (Didn't pay that much, but we did pay around $100 for it - I let Jim and the boy do the work. I looked elsewhere while they were deciding.)
I suspected he'd lose it at some point. I'm finding DS debris all over my car, my house and so on - and I had the kid less than 24 hours.
Got a call last night looking for homework. No, no homework.
And he'd already lost the watch.
..
Cost of gas to go get the kid - somewhere on the order of $60 - a tank each way.
Food, entertainment and so forth? Oh, another $100 or so.
Watch - $100
Eating at McDonalds for two days - *burp*
Losing my entire weekend to this project - priceless.
The kid offered to pay us back - I told him he couldn't. He needed to learn how to take care of his things - that was the only thing I wanted.
Right now, I'm a little dissapointed. What, I'm going to waste more time and energy on this getting angry? Please. No.
So much for handing him something he'd want to take better care of - *sigh*
You don't take care of the small things, you won't take care of the big things.
Something is up out there - not in the right place to do much other than observe and note that there are Issues afoot, but still.
The kid's a total featherhead. And on the honor roll?
One of the things we'd noted when we'd had him that weekend, was that he didn't have a watch.
So. This past weekend, we decided to take him out and get him one. A nice one. One that didn't come from Burger King and kept decent time. And we'd let him pick it out.
He ended up with a $200 Fossil. (Didn't pay that much, but we did pay around $100 for it - I let Jim and the boy do the work. I looked elsewhere while they were deciding.)
I suspected he'd lose it at some point. I'm finding DS debris all over my car, my house and so on - and I had the kid less than 24 hours.
Got a call last night looking for homework. No, no homework.
And he'd already lost the watch.
..
Cost of gas to go get the kid - somewhere on the order of $60 - a tank each way.
Food, entertainment and so forth? Oh, another $100 or so.
Watch - $100
Eating at McDonalds for two days - *burp*
Losing my entire weekend to this project - priceless.
The kid offered to pay us back - I told him he couldn't. He needed to learn how to take care of his things - that was the only thing I wanted.
Right now, I'm a little dissapointed. What, I'm going to waste more time and energy on this getting angry? Please. No.
So much for handing him something he'd want to take better care of - *sigh*
You don't take care of the small things, you won't take care of the big things.
Something is up out there - not in the right place to do much other than observe and note that there are Issues afoot, but still.
The kid's a total featherhead. And on the honor roll?
