08.23.01
What I would like to know, is if Overlord Carol actually took her daughter's cellphone away for a month, how she managed to run up another $150+ long distance bill on the damn thing.
Or why, after all the whining and crying and promising that it would never happen again, the landline long distance bill was well over $100.
I'd also like to know why The Brat is still breathing.
But at least Carol has developed some sort of backbone. Today she went down to the phone store and had them set up B's phone so that she could make no outgoing calls. You can call her all you want, she just can't call you back.
And if you wish to make a long distance call from the land line, you must first dial some sort of pin number, that only Carol and Bruce know. Additionally, this should prevent their older daughter, who is less of a brat than an ingrate, from making calls to all of her horse-related long distance connections from her parent's house.
Apparently, according to the Overlord, there is nothing quite like opening up your phone bill to discover a shockingly expensive amount of calls to towns in which you happen to know no one. Well, perhaps second only to opening up your phone bill and realizing that it is not only reasonably priced, but that all of the calls were made by yours truly, and that you won't have to sell your children into white slavery in order to finance their idiotic habits.
You know what the irony of this entire situation is? For years, the Brat has been begging Carol to remove the carpeting from her room and put down some sort of solid surface, be it tile, or preferably, some sort of wood or wood-like flooring. And Carol was actually going to fiinally give in and get the Brat a new floor, that is until she was forced to spend the entire amount of the flooring budget on a variety of long distance calls that she herself did not make.
I still think she should have sold them into white slavery while they were still young and fresh. Some foreign individual somewhere temperate and exotic would probably much rather have had two nubile young brides of 10 and 17, than two spoiled and jaded shrews of 15 and 22.
Their market value was definitely a lot higher 5 years ago.
