The GREEN Dot Should Be A RED Dot Between Someone’s Eyes

So before I start let me explain two things:

1. Green Dot Visa / MasterCharge cards are sort of like having a bank account without having a bank account. You buy the card (for something like 5 bucks) and then add money onto it at the same time you purchase it. You can then use it like any Visa / MasterCard to pay bills online or via the telephone or withdrawal money from an ATM.

2. Spaz will go to any lengths to get what he wants. Like the time he wanted map packs for a certain video game he was obsessed with and when told we weren’t going to buy it for him, he convinced one of his “friends” on Playstation to give up their username and password so he can sign onto the account and download it from theirs. I won’t tell you the trouble he got into for that.. and if I knew WHAT “friend” it was, I’d send HIM a message to let his parents know so he could get into just as much trouble. I’m sure his parents wouldn’t want their credit card information accessible to strangers like that.

So anyway..

A while ago, Spaz asked me if I would buy a game for him to download on the computer with my credit card .. he would give me the money back. After quizzing him on where EXACTLY he would get the money, I told him No. He has more then enough games to play for free online and beside, school was starting soon and he was spending WAY MORE time on the computer then he should anyway.

Did that stop him?

No.

I’m not going to go into where he got a dollar here.. or there.. but he had a few singles on him and he kept on saying how he was saving up for a computer game. Money in Spaz’s pocket never lasts anymore then the nearest candy store so I just was like, “.. yea. Whatever.”

He even came down to the store asking his father if there was anything he could do and Chief made him load the soda fridges. He expected to get paid and when I told him his “payment” was going to be at the barber’s a few stores down, he wasn’t thrilled.

Tough.

He got the haircut.

He kept on asking questions about the Green Dot card and even though I knew how it worked, I plead ignorance mainly because it was the quickest way to end a conversation that wasn’t going to go the way he wanted it to go and it avoided him getting all angry and pissed off.

But the other night he asked me if I knew his social security number. When I asked him why, he said that you needed it to register the Greed Dot card online. I told him that I wasn’t comfortable having him use his social security number because he was WAY to young to be giving it out. He thought about it then said that he didn’t need it anyway.. it was just a way to register the card so that the company would send one to him with his name on it.. but you can get a Green Dot card and use it without your social number.

Ok. Whatever.

I relay the conversation with Chief and tell him that I don’t necessarily think it’s a good idea and he agreed.

Just so happens the other night the Crack Whore picked him up to go somewhere.. I think it was her step-father’s birthday.. and low and behold, he came home with a Green Dot card.. already loaded with the 13.oo. He came home and immediately wanted me to do “something” with this card. I told him that it was late and that I would look it over the following day after work.

So the next day comes and when I get home, Spaz is already had the Green Dot card’s website up and tells me that he can’t proceed because they wanted his birthdate and when he put it in a message came up that said that he was too young and needed a parent to open the account.

What I didn’t know but found out as soon as I read the back of the card is that you get charged a 5.95 service charge every month.

No freakin’ way!

So I told him that I wasn’t signing him up. I think it’s ridiculous that he would get one.. more ridiculous that the Crack Whore would get him one.. and I sure as hell wasn’t going to pay a monthly fee for him to have one.

He told me that he would give me the card if I would buy him the game.. virtually paying for it himself.. and I told him no again and reiterated that he’s on the computer way too much anyway.. that there were tons of free games.. blah blah blah.

So he gets all torqued and so I tell him to have the Crack Whore do it for him.. let her pay the monthly fee, she was the one who got it for him in the first place. He said she didn’t “believe” in credit cards or bank accounts.

Now.. let me just throw something out there to be digested.. a year ago she had a checking account with a debit card from the same bank that I had an account with so my theory is that she bounced more then a few things and they closed the account. She probably owes them more then a few ducats.

So I was like, COOL! Then she can use the Green Dot for whatever she needs to use it for.

He said he was just going to throw the card out .. I asked him how he thinks she would feel about him just throwing out her money?

He didn’t answer and isn’t going to ask her probably because she’ll say no and he’ll get all disappointed again.

But whatever..

So I’m relaying this all to Chief and he had the same reaction to it that I did. Is she fucking crazy?? Does she not have ONE ounce of responsibility in that drug rattled brain of hers?

Stupid question, I know. She have very few brain cells left that I doubt even connect.

But really.. what the hell would make her think that this was a good idea?

But see.. it all comes down to giving in to what they want because guess what? SHE doesn’t have to deal with fall out.. SHE doesn’t have to put up with the bitching and complaining when the boys don’t get what they want.. SHE doesn’t think, “.. wait a minute, let me throw this buy your dad and see what he thinks.”

No..

Because you see.. it’s never about the KIDS.. it’s about one upping their father and he’s not better either.. which is why they are the way they are.

The Green Dot card is sitting on the dining room table. Tomorrow morning I’m talking it and giving it to (No Longer) Weed and am going to explain to him what happened. Either he’ll give it to the Crack Whore OR he’ll keep it for himself.

Weird, isn’t it.. that (No Longer) Weed is fast becoming the second adult that has any common sense?