Today, my son told me he lost the envelope with all the money he earned selling Cub Scout popcorn. The popcorn was delivered already, and the money needs to be turned in to the pack leader tonight. I just spent $220 on popcorn my neighbors are eating. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my son took some of my underwear to school. What's worse is he sold it to his classmate for $10. FML
Today, while paying for groceries, I opened my wallet to find that all my cash had been exchanged for Monopoly money. FML
Today, I was elected "class mom", even though I didn’t want to do it. I was also handed several envelopes in the hectic school hallway, containing parental cash contributions for the year. I lost several of the envelopes while rushing to my car, and now have to contribute €100 instead of €25. FML
Today, I ordered pizza for dinner and left cash by the door so my son could pay for it, in case it arrived before I got home. I told him they should get all the money, but I just found the tip. Apparently he thought I'd miscounted. I'm a server. FML
Today, after creating a swear jar for my son, I came back to find a $20 bill in it and him saying, "How much does that buy?" FML
Today, I gave my son a bollocking for losing a very important paper that I needed for work. I've just found it in my right pocket. FML
Today, while at my job in a candy store, a boy stuck his hand into the bin, contaminating the candy. As I politely explained that the dad had to purchase the affected candy he refused, yelled, then angrily agreed to buy them. The total cost of the candy with the extra pieces? $1.69. FML
Today, my 4 year old son thought it was funny to put money in the shredder. He stuck over 500 dollars in it. FML
Today, after spending two hours baking cookies for my niece's school's fundraiser, I packed them into a container and drove to the school. When I got there, the teacher looked confused and said the fundraiser was next Saturday. By the time the actual date arrived, every cookie had been eaten by my family. FML
Today, I asked my mom if I could borrow $20 since I don’t get paid until Friday. She responded with, “Why don’t you return those packages that arrived this week from your online shopping sprees?” FML
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ThereWolf 0
Why haven't YOU been keeping up with the money FOR your Cub Scout-aged son?
rosierosierosie 0
sell your son to pay for it
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Comments (82)
Batsumoto 4
and you believe your son? YDI for being so naive.
SarahinSane 0
For a second, I thought this said "Cub Scout ****".
wobster109 1
It's critically important that your son learn from this. I believe your son should have had to face the humiliation of telling his pack leader. He would have learned how important responsibility is. Even though it's hard to let your child get in so much trouble, if you bail him out like this, he will never learn from it. The worst case scenario would be if, as an adult, he still expects you to bail him out of his troubles. Even though you've already paid for the popcorn, do not let your son out of this without paying you back somehow. Someone mentioned that he could do chores for you as a way to make up for it, and that sounds like a very good idea.
penisface69 17
#52 is definetly right.
WrittenWord 0
#52 is absolutely right. And all of you who are saying an eight-year-old shouldn't be entrusted with money--I started selling Girl Scout cookies when I was six years old and I never lost a penny. My brother was also a Cub Scout, and he never lost his popcorn money either. In all the years the two of us were in our respective Scouting programs, I only saw one child lose money from a Scout sale, and that was an eleven-year-old girl in my Junior troop who told our leader with a straight face that her father "took my mom's car and drove to California with it, and my cookie money was in the back seat" and promised to pay back the money she'd "lost". The leader--my mom--ended up paying the money due Nationals out of her own pocket, and the troop reimbursed her at the end of the year; the girl never did pay the money she owed. (Incidentally, she also stole a dress my mother had loaned one of the other girls in our troop for our fashion show.) It's nothing to do with the age of the child and everything to do with the child's sense of respect towards himself and others.
Emrysa 1
YDI. "Your neighbors are eating popcorn that you paid for." Umm, no, they're eating popcorn they already paid your son for. Don't act like they got something for free. And if you hadn't already delivered the popcorn, what would you have done, given it back to the group? You'd still have owed your neighbors their money back. Learn not to let your kid hang onto that much money in the future.
Ninjaface 0
On the bright side, your son just made some lucky pedestrian very happy. And when it comes down to it, isn't that what Scouting is all about?
fretforyerlatte 0
YDi, but hey, maybe you'll get lucky and it was lost somewhere in the house. it could turn up someday.
kimbowee 0
YDI for sending your young son off with $220
ozymandias_fml 0
Wow... Maybe next time he will get off his ass and sell popcorn. $220 is chump change in popcorn money. Besides that, big deal? If it was a lot of money to you, maybe you should have been more careful with it.
Wet_Dream 0
he's lying and useing the money for dope..
ScaryyMary 14
Just make him pay it back... DUH!