Lessons learned the hard way

We've all learned lessons the hard way, right? In fact, just this week I was on a date with Trisha at a beautiful botanical garden and she locked her keys in the car. Well, a locksmith at nine oclock at night in the sticks is not cheap. $150 dollars later and we drove out of that parking lot, thank goodness. As if that wasn't enough, we also found out that she has a AAA membership that would have done it for free. Ooops. But an even bigger lesson learned the hard way thankfully had nothing to do with myself. Apparently you can watch tv shows on your phone... I never knew that, and I'm not sure I would ever have that desire. But beware, if you decide to do this, it may end up on your bill the next month as nearly $500 dollars! Not very cheap. My poor cousin "R" (I will call her this to protect her identity) has been begging for a cell phone for quite some time. She finally got all her payments lined up for like 6 months and had enough savings to purchase the phone itself when she approached her parents to get one. They saw her dedication and realized that she was ready to have a cell phone. She has been so excited to have it and very careful not to exceed the 750 texts that are allotted to her each month. Well, yesterday my aunt and uncle got the bill and on top of their usual amount, was a charge of almost $500 dollars. Oops. Not really sure how that one is gonna turn out, but it will be a funny story in about two years when the situation cools down.