How to Buy Your Child's Love

Cell phones have become an integral of everyone’s lives it has become for many, a, can’t live without item. It is no different for kids these days in fact they are the engines, which are driving the digital age and consume every new innovation with an insatiable appetite.

It was a late spring day, when an effervescent young lady came running, breathless and desperate to the office.

“Can I please use the phone!?”

The receptionist declines the request and tells the girl to return to class.

“But it is really important!”

“I forgot something in my dad’s car and he is leaving on a business trip and he won’t be back for a week!”

The receptionist softens and grants the request. The girl franticly dials her father, hoping he is still driving to the airport.

“Daddy!”

“I forgot my cell phone in your car this morning when you dropped me off and I really need it.”

“Can you send it to me?”

The office staff looks at one another and collectively roll their eyes. Before the receptionist can tell the girl to get off the phone that her forgotten cell hardly constitutes an emergency the girl blurts out.

“Ok Daddy!” -------------- “Thank you!” ----------------- “I love You!”

As quickly as she came she dashes back out the door and down the hall to class.

Heads shaking the office staff return to running the school and think nothing more of the frantic call.

Some time later a cabby walks in, cell phone and envelope in hand.

“I have to leave this for Jane Doe.” The same girl who made the frantic call an hour or so earlier.

A fifty-dollar cab ride from the Airport to the school just so this girl wouldn’t miss a call? Will wonders ever cease?

At the end of the day, when the girl comes to claim her digital identity, the receptionist hands over the cell and the envelope. She immediately pockets the phone then tears into the envelope in which she finds two crisp hundred-dollar bills.

Gleefully she similes and calls a friend on a phone that has cost her father 150$ on that day alone and says, “lets go shopping!”