Into the Mind of a Mum (3)
Why I won't buy you a 
or a 
and no, my name isn't Ebenezer Scrooge.
okay, I won't buy you or let you buy a laptop or a must-have mobile even though we both have the money to buy both those things (alhamdulillaah) because:
a) It's the old need v/s want thing.
Why on earth would you need a personal laptop at your age when we've got our vintage computer and my dell? (decrepit and lately defunct, but dell all the same). Yes, I know the ratio of users v/s computers in our house is skewed, but still...
b) I'm old fashioned and genetically desi. That translates to: i believe that if you want something really bad which you don't really need, you should work for it. You know what that means...more messed up rooms to clean at the exorbitant rate of SR 100 per room...but think of the satisfaction you'll get when you'll eventually have earned enough money from the sweat of your brow...just think!
c) Laptops allow you to spend unlimited time surfing the net or writing mystery stories and mobiles make it easy for you to call /text random people just to see what they're up to ...both induce you to waste time and money. Why would I let you buy something like that?
d) Seriously though, after seeing what happened to my miskeen old laptop and (just yesterday) my pathetic mobile, how can you even think of having fancy new ones in a house full of sippy cups and leaking bottles, curious fingers and mechanically inclined little minds?
or a and no, my name isn't Ebenezer Scrooge.okay, I won't buy you or let you buy a laptop or a must-have mobile even though we both have the money to buy both those things (alhamdulillaah) because:
a) It's the old need v/s want thing.
Why on earth would you need a personal laptop at your age when we've got our vintage computer and my dell? (decrepit and lately defunct, but dell all the same). Yes, I know the ratio of users v/s computers in our house is skewed, but still...
b) I'm old fashioned and genetically desi. That translates to: i believe that if you want something really bad which you don't really need, you should work for it. You know what that means...more messed up rooms to clean at the exorbitant rate of SR 100 per room...but think of the satisfaction you'll get when you'll eventually have earned enough money from the sweat of your brow...just think!
c) Laptops allow you to spend unlimited time surfing the net or writing mystery stories and mobiles make it easy for you to call /text random people just to see what they're up to ...both induce you to waste time and money. Why would I let you buy something like that?
d) Seriously though, after seeing what happened to my miskeen old laptop and (just yesterday) my pathetic mobile, how can you even think of having fancy new ones in a house full of sippy cups and leaking bottles, curious fingers and mechanically inclined little minds?
Labels: into the mind of a Mum, posts for posterity, thinking aloud
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