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alliancesjr) wrote2008-10-17 11:04 pm
alliancesjr) wrote2008-10-17 11:04 pm
Teenagers.
So. CheerSister did it again.
I didn't say anything here, so let me give a bit of an explanation. CheerSister's been having me pick her up after band practice and cheerleading and after sporting events and such, sometimes as late as 10:30. For a girl who is fourteen, that's late. At least, it is for us.
That's fine. I don't mind.
What I do mind is her taking my driving her for granted, and abusing it. She often promises her friends that I will give them rides and doesn't tell me until I arrive at the school and two other girls start climbing in my car with her.
A couple weeks ago, she called me for a ride, which I agreed to. I grumbled a bit about it, but I said yes. Her phone died, and she was not able to find a replacement. So what she did was assume that I wasn't going to pick her up and got a ride with someone else.
I didn't find this out until I had been waiting at the school for fifteen minutes, and she calls me from home.
Ladies and gentlemen, I may grumble, but I have never and will never leave her stranded three miles from home at ten-thirty at night. Not only did she not call me and tell me she found another ride (and let me assure you, every single one of her friends have cell phones - hey all have my number now because she never has her phone charged and always calls me from theirs), but what hurt the most is that she assumed that I would just leave her there when she asked me for a ride.
I was angry. I calmed down. I spoke to her about it. She apologised. Everything seemed fine.
A couple days ago, she called me at work to ask if I could pick her up later that night. I said sure, just call me when she's out of where she was, standard procedure. Later that night, however, she called me and said "Okay, are you ready to pick me and my friend up?"
...okay. "Your friend?"
"Yeah, we're carpooling."
Right. Carpooling. Sure. "Is this a regular thing now?"
"Yeah, it will be. Can you come pick us up now?"
I was angry. This was the first I had heard about it. She volunteers me and my car to carpool her friends on a regular basis and doesn't think to even mention it to me.
After I had dropped her friend off at her house, I asked CheerSister to explain herself. She had absolutely no idea why I was so upset, she shouldn't apologise because she already had it all worked out.
I told her that for the next month, she wasn't getting any more rides from me. She could take the bus home, or find another ride. And she had to explain to her friends, who already "knew" that I had agreed to do this, why this was no longer the case.
I know girls all go through this at one point. Doesn't mean I have to like it.
I didn't say anything here, so let me give a bit of an explanation. CheerSister's been having me pick her up after band practice and cheerleading and after sporting events and such, sometimes as late as 10:30. For a girl who is fourteen, that's late. At least, it is for us.
That's fine. I don't mind.
What I do mind is her taking my driving her for granted, and abusing it. She often promises her friends that I will give them rides and doesn't tell me until I arrive at the school and two other girls start climbing in my car with her.
A couple weeks ago, she called me for a ride, which I agreed to. I grumbled a bit about it, but I said yes. Her phone died, and she was not able to find a replacement. So what she did was assume that I wasn't going to pick her up and got a ride with someone else.
I didn't find this out until I had been waiting at the school for fifteen minutes, and she calls me from home.
Ladies and gentlemen, I may grumble, but I have never and will never leave her stranded three miles from home at ten-thirty at night. Not only did she not call me and tell me she found another ride (and let me assure you, every single one of her friends have cell phones - hey all have my number now because she never has her phone charged and always calls me from theirs), but what hurt the most is that she assumed that I would just leave her there when she asked me for a ride.
I was angry. I calmed down. I spoke to her about it. She apologised. Everything seemed fine.
A couple days ago, she called me at work to ask if I could pick her up later that night. I said sure, just call me when she's out of where she was, standard procedure. Later that night, however, she called me and said "Okay, are you ready to pick me and my friend up?"
...okay. "Your friend?"
"Yeah, we're carpooling."
Right. Carpooling. Sure. "Is this a regular thing now?"
"Yeah, it will be. Can you come pick us up now?"
I was angry. This was the first I had heard about it. She volunteers me and my car to carpool her friends on a regular basis and doesn't think to even mention it to me.
After I had dropped her friend off at her house, I asked CheerSister to explain herself. She had absolutely no idea why I was so upset, she shouldn't apologise because she already had it all worked out.
I told her that for the next month, she wasn't getting any more rides from me. She could take the bus home, or find another ride. And she had to explain to her friends, who already "knew" that I had agreed to do this, why this was no longer the case.
I know girls all go through this at one point. Doesn't mean I have to like it.
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oh FUCK no they don't. My ass would have been GRASS had I pulled stuff like that.
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My brother would have destroyed me!
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And man, I think we both know you better than that. Wanna bet that youll be giving her a ride next week, because youre just too nice of a brother? :-)
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Yeah, she can walk.
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Maybe charge her whenever a friend gets a ride home? Same as a cab? 2 bucks to get in and the first mile, then another 30 cents every mile afterward? Just a thought ...