Three weeks ago Elizabeth agreed to mow the yard so that David would take her and her friends to and from the mall. Our usual agreement is that if they go somewhere with their friends and need a ride, we'll take them one way and their friends' parents will take them the other.
Well, the very next day she comes down with a cold (real cold, not fake) and didn't mow the yard that weekend. Then the next weekend it was something else that kept her from mowing the yard, and last weekend, she was busy watching TV or something along those lines. And every afternoon after school, Gilmore Girls is on and she can't miss one single minute of that show.
So, yesterday, when she wanted a ride home from the gym, David reminded her that she still owed him a yard mowing. She begged, she pleaded, she tried to mope and pout, but nothing changed David's mind, so A went to the gym and E stayed home where she said she was going to get "fat and illiterate."
As we were talking to her before bedtime last night she said that living on credit sucks. I told her that it doubly sucks because not only did she not get to go to the gym tonight, but the yard is going to be really hard to mow now that it's waited at least a month AND that in that time, the yard could have been mowed again so she would have earned the money she would normally have gotten paid.
I saw understanding there. I hope it sticks!
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