What a pathetic excuse!

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Our eldest daughter (otherwise known as Big One) is now in her second year of high school, and she is one of the few children who don’t have their own ’phone – even some children at primary school have them. To be fair, she never complains about this, and always has a good answer when her class-mates ask her how she manages! But – she has got a bit hung up on the way the other children use their phones for most things, and can’t seem to see that a ’phone is just one tool. For example at the start of the academic year the school posted the new timetable online. She claimed she didn’t know what classes she would have because she didn’t have a ’phone, and had to ask her friends instead - but she does have a laptop so she could easily have looked it up at home! The other day she went along to a meeting about some forthcoming school drama, to find out if there were things she might be interested in helping with. When I asked her about it afterwards, she said that yes, she was interested, but it would involve staying after school some days and also working on a couple of weekends. When I asked her for the dates she said she didn’t know – they had been told, but she couldn’t write them down because she didn’t have a ’phone. SERIOUSLY?? I was, to use one of @MALUSE’s favourite phrases, gobsmacked. That has to be one of the most pathetic excuses I have ever heard! And especially from a girl who spends so much of her time writing at home – we have piles of paper accumulating literally everywhere! What can you say? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2018.