I’m still a little dumbfounded over this need to have a second cell phone for text messaging. Megan seems to think she needs more than 5000 text messages a month. Good grief, no wonder her uncle was upset (he’s paying for the phone) – every text message over her account limit is 10 cents – do the math on what 5000 times 10 cents would be. More math for you, lets assume Megan sent half of those messages – that would be 2500 messages in one month or about 83 a day. Now lets say Megan sleeps 8 hours a night – doesn’t sound like she, but lets assume it. So that’s 16 hours a day she is awake. That would mean she’s sending 5 messages an hour, 7 days a week all month long. And I thought she had told me that she turns her phone off during class 🙁
I’m really worried when the school of hard knocks finally hits home. She’s in an apartment with rent that’s almost as much as my mortgage payment, she has utilities which she figures run about $200 a month. She’s been spending $150 a week at WalMart (which about what I spend to feed the 3 of us). Then there is gas money and she’ll have to be paying for her own medical care. Now she has a second cell phone. I’ve been telling her for quite a while that she needs to start cutting back and really paying attention to what she is spending. I guess she’s planning on continuing to live off her father in to her 30’s like her oldest sister.
When the walls come tumbling down I won’t be able to help her…
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