Righton, girlfiend!
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From: "Deb Bledsoe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: parental vice, females absent


> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 15:05:24 EDT, Met History <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > [snip] I extend thanks to all (or at least all males,
> > since females obviously too busy to worry about phone bills) for your
> > kind help and thoughts on matter.
>
> well, hey, I finally had a chance to sit down and read the last couple
> weeks of BP, and here's what THIS girl thinks about phone bills etc:
>
> I think it would be _swell_ if you bought me a ford falcon to replace my
> crappy little rice burner, that despite having close to 200K miles on it
> and having been "totalled" at christmas by a NY taxi, was still faithfully
> carrying me, my dog and cat, my co-workers, piles of 10'-0" treated
lumber,
> bags of edison trash, pressure washers and toolboxes, and all sorts of
> other miscellaneous stuff hither and yon, back and forth, and up and down
> the highway until I inattentively drove it right up the rear end of a big
> ole dodge week before last...
>
> I also think that BOY should pay his phone bill and not gripe, as there
are
> grown MEN and WOMEN in the NYC area who bring home a heck of a lot less
> than $450 a week doing jobs like cleaning up dog crap from the city
> sidewalks and trimming bushes and grubbing out lawns and emptying bedpans
> and grinding mortar out of joints on buildings in the summer heat and etc
> etc etc, but yet somehow manage to pay carfare and ridiculous rents and
> doctor bills and buy groceries and send most of their money home to
support
> families, and then  STILL pay their own phone bills to call their PARENTS
> in whatever third world state or country they came here from to labor,
like
> say, kentucky or mississippi, if not tajihkistan or honduras...
>
> BOY needs to realize that $10/hour BEFORE taxes is the going rate for many
> if not most of the people who labor intensely to make this country the
> pleasant place it is, and that the minimum wage is still less than
> $6/hour...
>
> that said, I also think it would not be too awful if PARENT then loaned
BOY
> money at 2% above prime to complete summer plans, and got the repayment
> terms in writing this time, so as to avoid future misunderstandings about
> who is paying for what, when...   fair enough?
>
> perhaps PARENT could then present BOY the option to "work off" the debt by
> compensating him at minimum wage to do volunteer work as was suggested
> earlier, as opposed to _forcing_ him to do volunteer work as
> a "punishment"...  leave it up to the BOY to decide whether he would
rather
> find a higher paying job on his own in order to pay off PARENT...
>
> suggest if he defaults, PARENT sic his SISTER on him     ;)
>
> best to all, from
> deb "now riding fat-burner instead of driving rice-burner" bledsoe
>
> girl project co-ordinator, of late privileged to work with the best
>
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