My moment of "Oh Well"

[kyburg]

This 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?

Comments

[stitch-vicious.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way with leaving stuff in my pockets. When I wash my jeans every week there's almost always shredded tissues or dollar bills plastered to the sides of the washer when I take my stuff out. I've "laundered" so much money, it's not funny.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

You know, I almost intentionally do NOT put things in my pockets for that reason. Funny, I just noticed -