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phone bill? dad? omg please help please!
15 f
my dad just bought me a phone like 3 months ago. the first time i got it i started to text. so since i have tmobile every text was 10 cent. so when the phone bill came i had texted 50 messages and tht was only 5.00 and my dad got so mad, he almost hit me. he said that i have to be responsible. so now 3 mmonths and i just found out that i texted 123 messages.thats 12.30 cents. i did so much texting becase recently i got my first boyfriend which my parents dont know about so we texted alot. and my dad doesnt want to put me a texting plan.he is going to be furuious i dont know what he will do to me i am scared. the next bill will come in about 14 days. how am i supposed to get $12.30. i dont work and my parents never give me allowence. well my mom gives me a dollar everyday i could just save up but then i wouldnt be able to eat. idont get free lunch at school.i am really scared. i dont know what to do. anmy ideas? comments. what should i do? how will i get the money? please help! thanks in advance
sincerly,
very scared
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I feel for you. But I can offer you a bit of advice.
Do you have any special skills? Can you make great necklaces, bracelets or earrings? Are you good at pottary? Can you fix computers? Can you mow some lawns? Plant some flowers? If you have any kind of skill or hobby, you could try advertising your skill around your school and charging more that you paid to by materials (like string and beads or seeds/flowers) so you can make a small profit. Try packing a lunch from home the next two weeks for school or ask your friends to bring you a lunch if they'll sympathize with you in your time of need. I really hope everything works out for you. A little money should help your father realize that you worked for what you did and he should be proud of you. Also maybe an explanation of why you did it could help. But be sure that if he dares to actually hit you this time that you tell a guidence councelor or someone you can trust. It seems like you really need a good friend who will listen and not just get mad at you.
Sincerely, SlushPuppy
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You are lucky it is only $12.30 American or Canadian and not higher. I would talk to your mom if you can rather than you dad and tell her that you don't understand your cell-phone plan (which you obviously don't) and how much each feature such as voice-mail, retreiving messages and texting really costs.
Tell her that you have a bill for $12.30 and want to work it off in any way you can. Then hand her the cell-phone or in the case where you can only deal with dad do the same thing and tell them that you don't want the responsibility that it carries for a while.
Then, what I would do is get your father/mother info off the Cingular site about their plans and see if they'll let you switch. Also let them know about pay as you go accounts.
Those phones that come with no contract and cards for specific amounts would be ideal for you because you'd always know what you could and couldn't do. Let them punish you as they see fit, apologize to your sister and let things die down.
Give them the Cingular info and see what they can do. The only problem here is that your sister, your father may be roped into a contract already so starting you on anything new might be hard unless it's pay as you go.
That kind of account will teach you how to be more responsible on a cell phone account so dad/sis can put you back on their's. More or less, ask for this kind of account as a form of probabtion.
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