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Post by aln1982 on Dec 28, 2007 20:33:37 GMT -5
^ Never thought of that but you're right. Maybe she didn't get him anything. ;D
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Penny Lane
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Post by Penny Lane on Dec 28, 2007 20:40:38 GMT -5
That would be mean! She got everyone else something. Maybe she did and it just wasn't mentioned. (I'll think this over "ERROR") She should get him Superman sheets. Then give him a real present.
Oh yeah. I just went there. ;-)
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Post by greer on Dec 29, 2007 1:46:43 GMT -5
I actually don't think it was jerky of richard to make ma pay him back interest--if she's responsible enough to use a credit card, she needs to accept all that comes with that responsibility.
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Post by sarish on Dec 29, 2007 11:13:34 GMT -5
Me neither, Greer. I think that will help make her more financially responsible in the future. I think that Richard was being a good father. I have not read this book, but have a quick question: Did he tell her she needed to pay back interest plus purchases before he gave her the card?
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 29, 2007 17:41:34 GMT -5
^ I don't remember thinking that he explained to her all of the requirements and obligations involved in using the card or that he really did a good job helping her understand how to use it wisely before giving it to her. I think that would have done a lot of good and may have helped prevent the problem. But maybe he did and I just don't remember it or we didn't hear about it.
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Post by greer on Dec 30, 2007 1:23:34 GMT -5
That's true that he didn't explain it very well, but i don't think he expected her to be as extragavant as she was--a bread machine?! Multiple baseball gloves?!
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 30, 2007 1:33:05 GMT -5
^ Agree. That was a bit much. ;D Of course, this is coming from someone who would have made them bookmarks or something. ;D
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Dec 19, 2008 14:54:20 GMT -5
I think Richard explained the interest thing pretty clearly, and I also don't think he was unreasonable for wanting Mary Anne to pay it. Like he said at one point; if she's responsible enough to use a credit card, she's responsible enough to deal with everything that comes with it. I don't think I'd trust my 13 year old with a credit card, though. That is, if I HAD a 13 year old.
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Post by msstock87 on Dec 19, 2008 22:42:27 GMT -5
If I had a 13 year old I wouldn't trust them with a credit card period. I think Richard explained the interest thing clearly though, it's better she learned young then when she was older I guess.
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Post by tiff85 on Dec 19, 2008 22:46:08 GMT -5
I can agree msstock87. I don't think teenagers are ready to take on the responsibility. I guess Richard was teaching her some responsibility.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2009 14:40:51 GMT -5
Richard's actions in this book are so out of character - or they would be for the Richard we meet in the earlier books. He goes from being a guy who won't let his daughter talk on the phone after dinnertime and freaks out if she's ten minutes late getting home from a friend's house, to a father who turns his middle school-age daughter loose in the mall with a credit card. I mean, really. How does that happen?
I don't see much point to lending a thirteen-year-old a credit card, anyway. Mary Anne's savings would presumably be in cash, not in the bank - so it kind of erases the convenience factor there. I guess he might have been worried about her carrying that much cash around, but at the very least he could have sat down with her, counted out her savings, and said, "You have $87.32 here, so that's the absolute limit of what you can charge on my credit card. Because if you can't afford to pay off the full balance when the bill comes, here's what happens . . ." The way Richard handled the situation was stupid and irresponsible. He was just asking for trouble by handing over his card to a thirteen-year-old with little or no explanation of his expectations.
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Post by scrounge on Jan 7, 2009 15:28:45 GMT -5
Not completely out of character...didn't he give Mary Anne his credit card to use in Logan Likes Mary Anne, too? When she was shopping for the dance? The question I always have is, how does that even work? Why, when a 13-year old girl hands over a credit card that says "Richard" to pay for a bread machine, does the clerk not answer with "hahaha no."? I mean I suppose it might work these days if you were using one of the machines where you slide it yourself, but still.
I think the more out-of-character part for Richard was that he let Mary Anne ride the bus to the mall every day. He gives a token protest at first but when she says she's working on a BSC project he just lets her spend hours there several days a week. In the earlier books, he would never have done that. I know we were supposed to believe that he loosened up when he started dating/remarried Sharon, but it seemed like way too far of a shift the other direction to be believed. In book four, she's not even supposed to say hey or gross. By this book, she can have a part time job and he barely notices.
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on May 10, 2009 14:37:54 GMT -5
Mary Anne looked so adorable in that elf costume! I wish they had jobs like that when I was her age!
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 11, 2009 20:43:43 GMT -5
Well, she wasn't technically allowed to be working there at her age, right?
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on May 12, 2009 10:18:04 GMT -5
^ Exactly. This was one of the only times in the series when age is mentioned as being an issue when looking for work.
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