Misappropriated funds

The Bandit is in love with my iPad. I won’t allow him to buy games to play on it, but I will let him have the free games.

Hahahahaahaha. Free games. That’s freaking funny.

He’s always trying to manipulate me into paying for add-ons to the games. I refuse. The boy has 57 different electronic gaming systems and he doesn’t need me to pay for another one. That all seems reasonable to you, doesn’t it?

Then he tries to trick me into divulging my Apple ID so he can just take care of things. Clearly, he thinks I am an idiot.

On Sunday morning I opened my email to find a receipt from iTunes. I was perplexed. I’d purchased nothing so I opened the email to investigate. If you heard outraged shrieking on Sunday it was when I found this.

I have no idea how the boy spent 78.53 on a free video game. When asked what this was for, I was told it was for a gun for his hunting game. I told him for 64.99 a real freaking gun had better show up on our front porch.

I emailed Apple right away with an appeal for a refund. I assured them it would never happen again and that the boy had been disciplined accordingly as I’m sure you can imagine. I haven’t heard back from them yet, but I’m hopeful.

So I was telling my sister-in-law this story while we were floating around in the pool this weekend sipping sangria. She was making every effort not to laugh and failing miserably. I agreed that it would be a hysterical story were it happening to someone else. So she told me a story of her own.

Her nephew-in-law graduated from high school so she and her husband sent him $100 with a congratulations card. About a week later he called to thank them for their generosity and told them what he spent their money on. They were thinking it would be something electronic or perhaps put it towards a graduation trip or something along those lines.

Nope. He was very excited to tell them he used the gift money to buy a medical marijuana card.

Of course he did.