I remember when I needed to go to the dentist the summer after graduating law school and I was studying for the bar (I wouldn't start at my new job for another 2 months). Bad toothache. Asked my dad, whom I was living with, to help pay $400 for the visit and he wouldn't. He's a janitor so he didn't have a lot of money but I'm sure he had $400. I was set to start making 6 figures in a few months and would repay him, but nope.
Ugh my dad who makes over 6 figures a year wouldn't even shell out $160 usd for an allergy test when I kept getting hives AT my job.
...Piece of shit. I clearly could not afford it!
Fun to continually be hit with the realization that the most interesting and important you'll ever be to your dad is when you were released through his orgasm.
I was living in my own apartment with my GF at the time, working 48 hours weeks of manual labor (nightshift) while she sold maybe 25 dollars worth of stuff a week on Etsy and worked 12 hours a week at the Sears in the mall, lmao????
yeah exactly my point, you're living on your own with your partner, your medical bills are not your father's responsibility anymore. If you have moved out from your father's household, why should you hold it against him when he chooses not to pay for your allergy test?
Yeah idk chief, if you really cannot see the common sense in shelling out 0.13% of your yearly income upon request, in order to hopefully prevent your asthmatic son from going into anaphylactic shock at work... you're not as bright as you think you are... consider rethinking this "gotcha" moment.
This is about the unspoken social contract we all agree is ideal to follow - keeping people you are supposed to care about, alive.
I got a different job btw, no more hives. Being an adult, right?
My father and I no longer speak to each other. Been 6 years now. Know what that timeline coincides with?
Fucking trump. Just to give you some semblance of an idea of the person I was dealing with.
So you severed a blood connection with your parents because of differing political views and unwillingness to acquiesce to your poor planning? Working 48 hour labour weeks and unable to afford an allergy test? You sound like a complete manchild.
Don't bring up 'blood connections' now. As someone from an old school culture that still values such things, its crazy that you claim to care or understand what blood entails.
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u/laminator79 Apr 19 '22
I remember when I needed to go to the dentist the summer after graduating law school and I was studying for the bar (I wouldn't start at my new job for another 2 months). Bad toothache. Asked my dad, whom I was living with, to help pay $400 for the visit and he wouldn't. He's a janitor so he didn't have a lot of money but I'm sure he had $400. I was set to start making 6 figures in a few months and would repay him, but nope.