Yesterday after S. came home from
school, she told me that she got into an argument with her best friend over
whose family was the poorest. I do not know what evidence the friend used to
support her position, but S. pointed to our alleged lack of electronic
devices as proof of impoverishment. Apparently, she was still upset about the
matter, because she got right up in my grill and angrily shouted,
"Everyone else has smart phones and ipads and all sorts of electronics dad! All my friends have phones! L's friends
have phones! But we don't! We don't have any electronics! None at all!"
Pfffft, young lady! What do you call the
radio / cassette player I got for my ninth birthday, huh? That's electronic!
What about the Sony Walkman I got in 1985? Huh, huh? That's electronic! And so
is the stereo system / record player I got in 1987. And the stereo your mother
got when she was a teenager.
We also have a desktop
computer and two laptop computers. Yeah, I know two of them are broken and the other one doesn't work at all, but
we *still* own them. Our house is practically overflowing with electronic
devices, kid!
"No electronics,"
my eye!
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