Ok so I have this friend (not on fubar) that just called me a little while ago complaining that she couldn't get a dog because even mutts cost a considerable amount of money. She wants to get this dog because her son wants a dog REALLY bad.
Now here are a few facts you should know.
1. her son is mentally unbalanced and has had every unsuccessful diagnosis from bi polar, to ADD, to ADHD. He has been on just about every concievable drug to counteract the behavior unsuccessfully as well. His behavior is attrocious, to the point where even his own mother has had to call the police on him more than once. Mind you he is only 10 years old.
2. her son is ALSO a very manipulative child with sociopathic and violent tendancies.
3. she has had no job for nearly a year, living of of unemployment, and is only now seriously looking for work because her unemployment will run out before she can go back to school.
Now I suggested to her that if her son wants a dog, she should make him earn it. By her own admission, he would not be able to earn one. So my quetion is, why does she think he should have one? what concievable beneficial purpose could having a dog have? Never to her face have i called her a bad parent, mostly because taking one instance and applying a generalization is not a good thing. In this case I am awefully close to calling her a bad mother, to her face.
This has got to be one of the worst decisions I've ever seen her make, and her hanging up on me, when i tried giving her the reasons why she should not do this at this point in time, confirms it!
rant over.....