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Couple of my friend's neighbors have daughters born on the same day.

One family is VERY well off, and the daughter is a bit of a snot, despite her very down-to-earth, grounded parents. Let's call them the "Jones" family...

The other family is blue-collar, with not much left after stuff is paid for, though the kid is as happy as she could be, and could care less. They'll be the "Smith" family.

Both sets of parents are good friends, and like each other and the daughters equally well.

Well, 16th birthday rolls around for each of them. Of course, both girls want a car for their 16th.

The Smith's can't swing a car, but give their daughter a very good birthday party, and she'll tickled pink with the attention, the party, and what she does receive for gifts. Her parents put some money in an account for her, to help her get started toward a car, and she's been saving along the way.

The Jones' buy their daughter a car.

It's not the car SHE said she wanted (it was a used Honda, vs. a brand new BMW), and not a color she liked, and she went absolutely apeschit. Ruined her party, threw a fit.... Her parents were mortified, hurt, and genuinely pissed.

Well, the parties were on Friday.

On Sunday, Mr. Jones comes over to the Smith house to get ready to go play golf. Miss Smith (daughter) comes down, and tell her Dad that within about 6 months, with working extra, she thinks she'll have enough to put a down payment on a decent car, and make the insurance payments for the rest of her HS career.

Mr. Jones asks how much she has saved. She tells him, and says that $X of it is for the insurance for the next two years, and she wanted that paid for first, leaving her only $Y for the car, thus far.

His response?

"Cut me a check, for that amount." And, he tossed her the keys to the car his daughter didn't appreciate.

Took a few minutes for Mr. Smith and his daughter to make sure this was happening, and to get everything kosher, but the deal was done... right then.

Little Miss Smith will be riding the bus, or buying her own car, btw.

Lessons learned, all the way around.

ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING!!! I really really hope BOTH girls get the lesson that is staring them both in the face.
Just awesome.
Hey, tell Mr. Jones 'Well done!' from a parent he'll probably never meet, for having the kahunas to do the right thing. He 'might' just save his daughter from a life of misery.

+1

Little Miss Snot is really going to throw another fit when she finds this out, too bad, I wish I was there to see it.

WOW! That is AMAZING!

Thanks VA, that made my day!!

Mike

Oh, she did.

Her Dad's response?

"Your mother and I gave you a gift. You didn't want it and refused it. I bought it, your mother and I paid for it, you didn't want it, so I sold it to someone who did want it, and your mother supports the sale. If you want a car, now, you'll have to buy yourself one."

Then, he went to play golf with Mr. Smith, as had been the plan.

Ain't Karma a beotch?

While on the subject of parenting - another nugget for the 'fire. Anyone with a teenage daughter has had them snort, stomp off, and then slam their bedroom door shut. Got tired of this drama from little miss crowrifle, so I simply pulled the hinge pins and leaned the door against the wall in her bedroom. Hung an old bed sheet for her privacy and told her to slam that all she wanted.

She might still snort and stomp some, but she ain't never slammed that door again.

absolutely perfect!!!

Should add that we should all be so lucky to have had parents that would bitch slap us back into our place when we acted out. The girl don't know it yet but she should be thanking her dad.

She will one day, hw.

That is absolutely OUTSTANDING!

When I was around 4 or 5 years old, my father took me to a video arcade. First we went and got a bunch of tokens out of the machine, and then went looking for a game.

The arcade was really busy that day, and all the "good" games had four or five people waiting in line. The rest of the games were occupied. After going around the arcade looking for an open game and not finding one, my bottom lip started trembling, and I might have sniffled once or twice.

That's all it took for my old man to yank the tokens out of my hand, give them to some kid waiting paitently in line, and haul my ass out the door.

I learned my lesson.

Brian.

My video arcade was a pinball machine at the truck stop
Getting old
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Miss Jones got the most valuable gift of all. Might be some time before she realizes it, and she might not ever...but it is still there for her.

i did that, girls thought slamming a door was their way to get the last word in a discussion.....never failed they would do it when Darla had a migraine.....said [bleep] it and removed the doors while they were at school havent had an issue with them slamming doors since even though they got doors again when we moved to the new house 5 years ago.........

AWESOME!

My little girl will turn one year old on the 2nd of June and God willing I won't have to deal with a brat like that in the next 15 years.

SWEET!!!!!

Good for the Jones' to not cave. Teen Smith gives me hope for our future.

If she turns out that way you could always pull out the ultimate punishment and send her to Auburn. grins

Love it! I have seen enough snotty teen girls to really appreciate the good ones.