Let's have a show of hands...

Who thinks Himself and I should be footing the bill for one of the adolescent's social life?

Eh?

The kid works about 16 hours a month and fritters all of his paycheck away on his damned cell phone.*

Hasn't sold the p.o.s. jeep because he's too busy running around doing this and that and has no time to fix it.

That means he has no car.

That means he has no funds.

That evidently means that we are to let him us one of our vehicles. To take Little Miss Ubiquitous to dinner and a movie for their All Important First Anniversary. Good god, he's 17 and she's 15 and this is a Big Deal?

I think I may tell Himself that, in my opinion, dinner and a movie will be fine but it will have to wait until the kid has his own car and has paid us back every last cent he owes us.**

At some point the kid has to learn to take care of business first and play afterwards, if there are sufficient funds to do that.

Like we did with the 3 older ones, who have all turned out just fine in spite of being horribly mistreated by parents who insisted they take care of their responsibilities BEFORE they had fun.

It's time Himself put his foot down and made it clear to this kid that this isn't a boarding house.


ETA: The decision is made. By me. Until he takes care of his obligations and responsibilities there will be no borrowing our vehicles to fulfill his social obligations. I'll have to be the bad guy, as usual, not like I haven't had to do that before. I make a really, really good bad guy, too. LOL (or should that be bwahahahahaaaa?)


Another ETA: His Daddy over ruled me and let him take the truck for his little assignation. And today, the kid has been gone all day with no explanation of where he has been or what he has been doing and NOW he wants (and got) permission to have a "friend" overnight. What friend, I asked. Himself didn't know. WTF is going on here? I am so furious that I could spit nails. The little arsehole and his creep father... screw them both.


* What the hell does he need a cell phone for?
**That is not an insignificant amount of money, either.