What Was She Thinking

Some days I think I should rename my blog to “What was she thinking?” My husband tells me it’s the only way he can find out what’s on my mind. Hmmmm…..

But today’s episode is more about what was Megan thinking? The morning started off very stressful, she call me very upset because her uncle left a message around 1 in the morning telling her he needed to talk to her. He first reaction was that something had happened to her father (since he hadn’t transfered any money into her account yet). I reminded her that if something did happen to him, her uncle would come over there to tell her. So I call him, tell him she’s pretty upset and that he needs to call her to reassure her that every thing’s okay. He told me he had to talk to her about something using the same tone that he used when Megan was continually over drafting her account. So after talking to him, I go back to what I was doing and Megan calls back. She had talked to him.

Later in the morning Megan calls to tell me she done for the day – she’s taking finals and she just finished one. She was on her way to her uncle’s shop. Later on in the day, since I hadn’t heard from her, I call to check on her. She and her uncle were bowling, so I guess everything went okay – I was stressing over nothing.

So a while later I get a call from a number I didn’t know, but it was Megan’s area code. I thought maybe it was a job offer, so answered it. It was Megan, she had gotten a new cell phone. I’m thinking, like, geez, you just got a new phone. She tells me that she didn’t like the way her old phone “did her” with text messages. She didn’t realize that she got charged for incoming messages too. So no one explained this to her? Then she tells me not to worry, she put me in her “5”. I tried to explain to her that while her calls to me might free on her end – they will now eat my minutes. I don’t think Megan even realizes how much she calls me – I checked my bill for last month – I used over 500 “IN” minutes – with all most all of them being from Megan. On average, it looks like she uses about 300 minutes a month talking to me.

The whole point in her being on Verizon was so that she could call me or her father anytime and talk as much as she wanted to. To say the least, I don’t have 300 minutes a month she can talk to me on. But I’m not mad, just really hurt. I like Megan calling me and talking to me. I want her to be able to call me when ever she needs to – that’s why I had originally given her a prepaid phone and kept minutes loaded in it.

So now the late night message from her uncle makes sense. Megan must have gone way over her allotted monthly text messages. And since he is paying for the cell phone she had, something had to change. On the bright side, Megan is trying to pay some of her own bills. She has an intermittent part-time job. I’m proud of her for wanting to stick to it and not let her father know when her funds are tight. I do worry.

But anyway, now she has a phone, which she says she will be paying for, so she can text all her friends with…but it does beg the question, “What was she thinking?”