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Do you blame the kid or the parents for this? (vanity)
http://www.knowable.com/a/this-teenage-girl-just-made-the-biggest-financial-mistake-of-her-life-seriously?utm_content=inf_10_3136_2&tse_id=INF_b085bafdb809490885f9db0625976451 ^
| 1/22/2016
Posted on 01/22/2016 10:16:28 AM PST by Borges
TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Society
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:16:28 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:18:34 AM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: Borges
Take your dad to the police.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:20:20 AM PST
by
donna
(Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
To: donna
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:21:04 AM PST
by
donna
(Radicalized Christians become missionaries; then, they tell everyone that Jesus loves them!)
To: Borges
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:21:05 AM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
To: Borges
I absolutely blame the parents for letting their child believe that there was nothing they could do to earn the money to take the trip.
Does the neighborhood not have cars that need washing? Are there no kids to babysit? Is there no garden that needs to be weeded? Is there no elderly residents who could use a hand cleaning out the garage or clearing the gutters?
As for the rest, well, I’d imagine that, like most things on the internet, it is utterly fake and don’t assign blame either way.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:22:34 AM PST
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: Borges
Paul Ryan is a whiny little girl.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:23:06 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
To: Borges
She’ll end thousands ahead once this goes on GoFundMe
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:23:48 AM PST
by
bigbob
("Victorious warriors win first ande then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
To: Borges
I can’t be overdrawn....I have more checks left.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:24:15 AM PST
by
IC Ken
To: Borges
Doesn’t pass the smell test with me. Anonymous source, posting to Reddit, a millennial heavy website. Probably a pity hound or scammer.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:25:09 AM PST
by
Company Man
(Keep Calm and Carry)
To: Company Man
But with millennials being the way they are....I could totally see this being true.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:26:03 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:26:21 AM PST
by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. � Robert Heinlein)
To: Borges
Any high school student who doesn’t understand what a real bank account is and what checks are is a complete, total idiot. In one sense, I’m sorry this happened to the kid but I’d put this story more in the category of “learning a painful lesson” than the kid somehow getting screwed. I’m not too inclined to blame the parents for this. It should be so blindingly obvious that if they didn’t warn the kid, the kid should have picked up the knowledge at school or even from TV.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:27:14 AM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Borges
Before he was a financial writer, Andrew Tobias, in one of his books, said that while at Harvard, he wrote out a "million dollar" check to a friend as a gag birthday gift.
His friend deposited it.
IIRC, the then-Cambridge Savings Bank closed out both their accounts.
To: Borges
Can’t be genuine; has to be a fake.
No modern teen is capable of proper grammar and complete sentences.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:31:15 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Company Man
Yeah. I’ve seen this one before. It’s a fake. Although it says more than a little about our current teen culture.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:35:11 AM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: IC Ken
I can't be overdrawn....I have more checks left.
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:37:56 AM PST
by
TexasCajun
(#BlackViolenceMatters)
To: Borges
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posted on
01/22/2016 10:50:19 AM PST
by
ThomasThomas
(Veritaphobia The true sign of a liberal.)
To: Borges
I think this is fake. The tone of it doesn’t sound quite right. Plus, how many kids these days, never mind a kid as dumb as this, could spell “souvenir” correctly?
To: Borges
No teen in 2016 is that articulate.
Stupid, yes. Articulate, no.
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posted on
01/22/2016 11:14:43 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
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