Who wants two teenage girls?

[StarHead69]

So, I opened my phone bill and WOW! $270 in long distance charges. Mind you, that's the landline (which I keep active for emergencies). I pay for unlimited Long Distance on their cell-phones, .10/minute for the land-line. When I asked them 'what the heck' I'm told that "we use the cordless when our cells are on the charger"! BTW my next bill already has almost $600 in long distance charges.

I live in East Texas, and am (somewhat) considering dropping them off at the closest 'occupy' protest.

:bang2:

thanks for letting me vent

[VietCowboy]

So, I opened my phone bill and WOW! $270 in long distance charges. Mind you, that's the landline (which I keep active for emergencies). I pay for unlimited Long Distance on their cell-phones, .10/minute for the land-line. When I asked them 'what the heck' I'm told that "we use the cordless when our cells are on the charger"! BTW my next bill already has almost $600 in long distance charges.

I live in East Texas, and am (somewhat) considering dropping them off at the closest 'occupy' protest.

:bang2:

thanks for letting me vent

get vonage? / magicjack

[Sam I Am]

get vonage? / magicjack

I've had a MagicJack before. I used to use it when I was traveling in Europe. I recommend against it. The service was extremely shotty. (or was when I had one a couple of years ago)

I would recommend Skype over MagicJack or Vonage. (way cheaper than Vonage) You can get a phone number and unlimited calling for $2.99 a month to US and Canada. $7.99 if you include Mexico and for $13.99 unlimited to anywhere in the world.

I even have a USB adapter that plugs into my computer and allows me to plug a normal phone into it. Similar to this one (http://www.amazon.com/VOIP-Phone-Adapter-Support-Skype/dp/B000A4XQR0).

Just a word of warning though. Many VoIP phones do not like phone systems that require you to select number options. The can't understand the VoIP soft tones. Of course, I just use my cell in those cases. (if I'm not home) Though, we have one Vonage line at work, and I haven't had trouble using it on phone systems that I can recall.

[StarHead69]

Alas, I live in the sticks with crummy DSL from Centurylink...

I'll look into it again though.

:lmao2:
The main culprit handed me her Christmas wish-list before she ran out to the bus!
#1 on the list... a new I-Phone suuuuuuuurrrrrrrre thing!

[zrinkill]

So, I opened my phone bill and WOW! $270 in long distance charges. Mind you, that's the landline (which I keep active for emergencies). I pay for unlimited Long Distance on their cell-phones, .10/minute for the land-line. When I asked them 'what the heck' I'm told that "we use the cordless when our cells are on the charger"! BTW my next bill already has almost $600 in long distance charges.

I live in East Texas, and am (somewhat) considering dropping them off at the closest 'occupy' protest.

:bang2:

thanks for letting me vent


Remove the actual land line phone. Put one inside your locked closet for emergencies.

[VietCowboy]

Alas, I live in the sticks with crummy DSL from Centurylink...

I'll look into it again though.

:lmao2:
The main culprit handed me her Christmas wish-list before she ran out to the bus!
#1 on the list... a new I-Phone suuuuuuuurrrrrrrre thing!

just cancel the long distance, if it is for emergency, you shouldn't need it to make a long distance call anyway

[Sam I Am]

Talk to your phone service provider. I believe some can set it up where it requires a password to dial long distance.

[Sam I Am]

just cancel the long distance, if it is for emergency, you shouldn't need it to make a long distance call anyway

Nods, that is what your cell phone is for!

[StarHead69]

Yep, I'm just putting the dang land line phone in my closet.

Apparently, they like to talk on one phone... so they can text with their cell. Multi-ta$king at its finest folks! Oh well, lesson learned, the flat-screen tv will just have to wait another year I guess.

[Chinfu]

Call your provider and explain it to them, odds are they will remove all the charges or at least reduce them. Gotta love kids...

[Yeagermeister]

You have bbgun's attention :laugh1:

[kapolani]

Cancel land line long distance service.

Get Google Voice.

Dial out - long distance - from your landline using Google Voice.

Free.

[big dog cowboy]

You have bbgun's attention :laugh1:

:lmao2:

[LeonDixson]

So, I opened my phone bill and WOW! $270 in long distance charges. Mind you, that's the landline (which I keep active for emergencies). I pay for unlimited Long Distance on their cell-phones, .10/minute for the land-line. When I asked them 'what the heck' I'm told that "we use the cordless when our cells are on the charger"! BTW my next bill already has almost $600 in long distance charges.

I live in East Texas, and am (somewhat) considering dropping them off at the closest 'occupy' protest.

:bang2:

thanks for letting me vent
Ha ha. No thanks, I raised my two girls.

[tupperware]

You have bbgun's attention :laugh1:
I misinterpreted the thread title myself. But it's totally not because I'm a pervert, the title just sounded that way, lol.

[JoseyWales]

Just curious, but why couldn't they use their cell phones while they are charging? If it's plugged in, it will work. Don't want to be hampered by that pesky cord?

If so, get rid of the cordless and put a phone with a cord on your landline. It will be like kryptonite. Hell, really shock them and make it a rotary phone.

[Danny White]

I misinterpreted the thread title myself. But it's totally not because I'm a pervert, the title just sounded that way, lol.

http://media.egotvonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/chris-hansen.jpg

[notherbob]

So, I opened my phone bill and WOW! $270 in long distance charges. Mind you, that's the landline (which I keep active for emergencies). I pay for unlimited Long Distance on their cell-phones, .10/minute for the land-line. When I asked them 'what the heck' I'm told that "we use the cordless when our cells are on the charger"! BTW my next bill already has almost $600 in long distance charges.

I live in East Texas, and am (somewhat) considering dropping them off at the closest 'occupy' protest.

:bang2:

thanks for letting me vent

Been there, done that, paid lots of very large long distance bills. Keep your girls, I don't want them. Maybe you can sell them to a passing caravan for an old used camel or a spare tent or something. :D :eek:

[tupperware]

http://media.egotvonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/chris-hansen.jpg (http://media.egotvonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/chris-hansen.jpg)
:laugh2:

[Teren_Kanan]

I have room for them in my basement

:)

[Achilleslastand]

So, I opened my phone bill and WOW! $270 in long distance charges. Mind you, that's the landline (which I keep active for emergencies). I pay for unlimited Long Distance on their cell-phones, .10/minute for the land-line. When I asked them 'what the heck' I'm told that "we use the cordless when our cells are on the charger"! BTW my next bill already has almost $600 in long distance charges.

I live in East Texas, and am (somewhat) considering dropping them off at the closest 'occupy' protest.

:bang2:

thanks for letting me vent

Take em out fishing in Lake Caddo and leave them there.....
Problem solved.

Just kidding:laugh2:

[03EBZ06]

Man, I feel for you. I have three daughters, two are in college now but when they were teenagers, they cost me lot of money due to their stupidity and inconsiderate behavior, thank god they are out of that stage, but my youngest is 14, hopefully, I don't have to spend money nearly much as I did with my two oldest, sigh.

[bbgun]

You have bbgun's attention :laugh1:

Gotta tell you, I'm really depressed that this is all about phones. Isn't there something in the guidelines about misleading thread titles?

~giggity~

[ninja]

Easy and best solution: make them get a job and pay for their own phone charges. Or tell them that you will subtract the charges from their Christmas presents. Watch how fast they learn some common sense and the value of a dollar.

This is a good teaching opportunity for you. "What we have here is failure to communicate.":) Failure on your part to communicate discipline and common sense. No way on earth would I have ever racked up phone charges like that. That would have been a beating of epic proportions from both my mom and dad. Followed by a command to go get a job (cutting grass, newspapers, etc.) and repay every cent.

[Frozen700]

Gotta tell you, I'm really depressed that this is all about phones. Isn't there something in the guidelines about misleading thread titles?

~giggity~

:laugh2: :lmao2:

[Frozen700]

Easy and best solution: make them get a job and pay for their own phone charges. Or tell them that you will subtract the charges from their Christmas presents. Watch how fast they learn some common sense and the value of a dollar.

This is a good teaching opportunity for you. "What we have here is failure to communicate.":) Failure on your part to communicate discipline and common sense. No way on earth would I have ever racked up phone charges like that. That would have been a beating of epic proportions from both my mom and dad. Followed by a command to go get a job (cutting grass, newspapers, etc.) and repay every cent.

No way bro..spoil your daughters man.

Make them get a job? no way!....so some guy can come and snatch her up and call her wife? Nah im spoiling mines...as far as needs go.

My son, yeah he can work his *** off and get a job

[UVAwahoos]

Gotta tell you, I'm really depressed that this is all about phones. Isn't there something in the guidelines about misleading thread titles?

~giggity~

hahaha.

[WV Cowboy]

So, I opened my phone bill and WOW! $270 in long distance charges. Mind you, that's the landline (which I keep active for emergencies). I pay for unlimited Long Distance on their cell-phones, .10/minute for the land-line. When I asked them 'what the heck' I'm told that "we use the cordless when our cells are on the charger"! BTW my next bill already has almost $600 in long distance charges.



LOL, .. I wish I could tell you that it gets better, but it doesn't.

Kids are always inventing new ways to spend your money.

Yes, you can try to make them pay it back, but good luck with that. :D

[Clintlongley88]

Pics?

[Joe Realist]

No way bro..spoil your daughters man.

Make them get a job? no way!....so some guy can come and snatch her up and call her wife? Nah im spoiling mines...as far as needs go.

My son, yeah he can work his *** off and get a job


how old are your kids?

[poke]

i foresee a bad ending to this thread :D

[Danny White]

Gotta tell you, I'm really depressed that this is all about phones. Isn't there something in the guidelines about misleading thread titles?

~giggity~

kZI7BjHqvC0

[bbgun]

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3277/dailypicdump83864089.jpg

Well, if Elvis can get away with it ...

[bbgun]

kZI7BjHqvC0

Lqq0bs0C9Mk :)

[The30YardSlant]

I don't get the female infuation with talking on the phone for long periods of time. If I have something worthy of an hour long sustained conversation (which is exceedingly rare) I'm gonna do it face to face.

[WV Cowboy]

No way bro..spoil your daughters man.

Make them get a job? no way!....so some guy can come and snatch her up and call her wife? Nah im spoiling mines...as far as needs go.


At some point, you aren't doing your daughter any favors.

[Hoofbite]

Do they clean?

[burmafrd]

I knew a Gunny- a WW2 vet of Okinawa, Tarawa, Iwo.


He said the most frightening things he had come up against in his whole life were his grandchildren- twin girls -when they became teenagers.

[Ren]

Gotta tell you, I'm really depressed that this is all about phones. Isn't there something in the guidelines about misleading thread titles?

~giggity~


http://www.deviantart.com/download/118883327/Desktop_Pedobear_background_XD_by_Lemon_of_Doom.jp g (http://www.deviantart.com/download/118883327/Desktop_Pedobear_background_XD_by_Lemon_of_Doom.jp g)

[CanadianCowboysFan]

I misinterpreted the thread title myself. But it's totally not because I'm a pervert, the title just sounded that way, lol.

it did, I expected Dumson to be all over the thread

[Bigdog]

Holy crap. I have 10 year twin daughters and not looking forward to those teenage years. I just wish they never grow up but they do. I told them they can't date until I am dead and one of them said that mom said she can arrange that and the other quipped in but she has to up your life insurance first.

[silverbear]

So, I opened my phone bill and WOW! $270 in long distance charges. Mind you, that's the landline (which I keep active for emergencies). I pay for unlimited Long Distance on their cell-phones, .10/minute for the land-line. When I asked them 'what the heck' I'm told that "we use the cordless when our cells are on the charger"! BTW my next bill already has almost $600 in long distance charges.

I live in East Texas, and am (somewhat) considering dropping them off at the closest 'occupy' protest.

:bang2:

thanks for letting me vent

First, I'm going off on a bit of a rant here, and I want you to know it's not aimed at your daughters... they're just representative of the problem here...

270 dollars in long distance charges??!? For a KID??!? And over 600 bucks on your next bill?? Man, that's obscene; there was a time when I was engaged to a girl but working out of state one winter, and I regularly ran up 300 dollar phone bills, all of them to her... and friend, we used to talk for like 3 hours at a time... but I never came CLOSE to the kinds of phone bills you're talking about...

This society has become addicted to their telephones, and it's not a good thing... frankly, if I were in your situation, I'd take your kids' phones away, force them to get out into the real world and see what's out there...

Again, though, your girls are not unique... but their excuse is hilarious; they can't go without their phones long enough to allow them to recharge?? They can't recharge them overnight, while they sleep?? Or do they use the phones so flippin' much that a single charge won't last them the whole day??

Kids and adults alike need to get weaned off of their cell phones (said the man who refuses to own one)...

Now, for some practical advice; tell your girls that they're allowed to use your "house phone" to make long distance calls if they like (and why exactly are they making long distance calls, don't their friends live locally??), but they have to PAY FOR THEM when the bill comes in... and stick to it...

Watch how fast they stop making long distance calls on your house phone... LOL...

[silverbear]

just cancel the long distance, if it is for emergency, you shouldn't need it to make a long distance call anyway

That's actually what I've done at home... I have local service only, and keep a calling card in my wallet for when I must make a long distance call...

I bought that 30 dollar card about 3 months ago, and still have 15 bucks left on it... who needs to pay the phone company for long distance calling??

[silverbear]

Yep, I'm just putting the dang land line phone in my closet.

Apparently, they like to talk on one phone... so they can text with their cell.

That's EXACTLY what I'm talking about-- they're junkies...

[silverbear]

Just curious, but why couldn't they use their cell phones while they are charging? If it's plugged in, it will work. Don't want to be hampered by that pesky cord?

He's already explained that their first excuse was a fib; seems they like to use the land line to talk while texting on their cells...

Can you believe that happy horsebleep?? Communicating with one person at a time isn't good enough for them??

If so, get rid of the cordless and put a phone with a cord on your landline.

Hey, that might work... put the phone in the living room, where they're guaranteed not to have any privacy...

[CliffnMesquite]

Loops... I guess I should have read the thread before calling the police.
:(

[silverbear]

Easy and best solution: make them get a job and pay for their own phone charges. Or tell them that you will subtract the charges from their Christmas presents. Watch how fast they learn some common sense and the value of a dollar.

This is a good teaching opportunity for you. "What we have here is failure to communicate.":) Failure on your part to communicate discipline and common sense. No way on earth would I have ever racked up phone charges like that. That would have been a beating of epic proportions from both my mom and dad. Followed by a command to go get a job (cutting grass, newspapers, etc.) and repay every cent.

Yeah, my dad would have strangled me with my own belt if I'd done something like that... :D

[Yeagermeister]

A land line? That's like so 2005. I got rid of my land line yrs ago.

[VietCowboy]

First, I'm going off on a bit of a rant here, and I want you to know it's not aimed at your daughters... they're just representative of the problem here...

270 dollars in long distance charges??!? For a KID??!? And over 600 bucks on your next bill?? Man, that's obscene; there was a time when I was engaged to a girl but working out of state one winter, and I regularly ran up 300 dollar phone bills, all of them to her... and friend, we used to talk for like 3 hours at a time... but I never came CLOSE to the kinds of phone bills you're talking about...

This society has become addicted to their telephones, and it's not a good thing... frankly, if I were in your situation, I'd take your kids' phones away, force them to get out into the real world and see what's out there...

Again, though, your girls are not unique... but their excuse is hilarious; they can't go without their phones long enough to allow them to recharge?? They can't recharge them overnight, while they sleep?? Or do they use the phones so flippin' much that a single charge won't last them the whole day??

Kids and adults alike need to get weaned off of their cell phones (said the man who refuses to own one)...

Now, for some practical advice; tell your girls that they're allowed to use your "house phone" to make long distance calls if they like (and why exactly are they making long distance calls, don't their friends live locally??), but they have to PAY FOR THEM when the bill comes in... and stick to it...

Watch how fast they stop making long distance calls on your house phone... LOL...

yah, but sometimes it's hard. My boyfriend's parents have 3 boys, and they all live at home. My boyfriend though actually contributes to the household expenses. His younger brothers pretty much have all their living expenses paid for. Their parents have paid for 5+ years of COLLEGE tuition, and they are 22 and 23 years old and still have 2-3 years left of undergrad because of dicking around and failing classes and taking the minimum credits each semester. Because they aren't paying for college, they have no incentive to finish. Their GPAs are horrendous and they will likely have to depend on the family to get internship/jobs. My boyfriend got a scholarship so his parents never paid for his tuition, he became an RA to get free room and board, and finished in 6 years (got his MS too 4 years BS, 2 years MS). My boyfriend lives at home right now because he's applying to pharmacy school but he pays for groceries and some other household expenses to cover the free rent.