ok, so here i am again with little to nothing to write about....ok got something. I am currently writing this paper on my roommate/best friend's macbook lap top. Do you want to know why I am not using my own lap top? People might guess, "because you don't have one??" But oh, i have one. I have possibly the slowest, most unreliable, worst laptop known to man. Sometimes it decides to pick up the internet, sometimes it doesnt. Sometimes it decides to be kinda ok fast, sometimes it decides to be as slow as Christmas
Do you want to know why i have possibly the worst laptop of any one on campus?? Because my father could quite possibly be the cheapest, most frugal man alive. I mean, its really sad. The man goes 5 miles down to Kroger when we basically live next door to Publix because "they have better prices". What he doesn't realize is the gas he uses to get there and back probably outweighs the difference in the cost of the groceries from one place to another. He travels for a living and very very often has to stay in hotels. If you open up his bathroom closet, you will find literally a hudred of those little bottles of shampoo and body wash and bars of soap that he has jacked out of each hotel he has stayed at. That way he doesn't have to pay for any of these toiletries hardly ever. He makes us turn in all of our reciepts of anything we put on our credit cards, even if it is like 30 cents... the man is crazy!!
Anyway that is all beside the point. The point is, due to my dad's cheapness, I have a crappy computer. I was really hoping to get one of those new pink laptops that dell makes, but nooooo. I got the ugly grey Everex? A brand nobody has even heard of, just because there was "a great deal on it". He got some kind of giant rebate off it and just couldn't help himself. I honestly thought i was going to get the laptop of my choice because I am basically going to college for free due to scholarships i have gotten. That should weigh in somewhere if you ask me. He should have said, "oh thank you meg for your great work....you may have anything you want!!" But thats not exactly how life works now is it?
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I feel ya. My mother was in advertising while I was growing up. We used to get samples of crap with other people's names on it for Christmas. Once I got a NASCAR sweatsuit that was two sizes too large. I didn't even know what Nascar was, and would have been horrified if I had.
My dad is the exact same way, most of the time. I'm a complete Daddy's girl but I work for it! I'm going to school for free, too, and I had to buy my own damn laptop. I bought everything for my dorm and whatever... but honestly, it hasn't been that bad since I worked my butt off this summer. I see my friends out buying dumb shit and I realize that when I'm older I'm going to be able to manage money a lot better. I asked my dad why he wouldn't give me any money for my school stuff and see said exactly that... because it's MY school stuff. Tough break, I guess!
Could you not buy your own laptop? I worked for half the summer and put all the money towards a Macbook Pro..I used tuition money for the other half since I didn't need it this year. I mean..you could buy yourself something nice. Apple's computers are expensive as shit but there are plenty of other much less expensive laptops you can get that are a great buy too...I don't see why you had to rely on your dad for that one when he made such a shitty decision
I think my mom and your dad are twins seperated at birth. my mom's the same way. especially with the gas thing...she only gets gas from costco which theres only two in memphis so just to drive all the way out to one probably costs MORE thatn what she saves on their cheap gas.
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