I want to go out and play / With all my hippie friends
Despite the title of this post, the mood overall in Alex is ANNOYED.
You see, I had a small problem with my parents last year. It was that originally, the house we were staying in was supposed to be rented to us for one year. Since I only live in Waterloo for eight months out of the year, they did not want to pay for four months of empty space. This was rectified when the 'landlord' agreed to cut it down to an eight-month lease.
I doubt I will have any such luck this year.
Thus, my parents are telling me that I must make $1680 extra this summer to pay them back for the extra four months.
Theoretically, this is possible if I work 6 extra hours a week and an extra week at the end of the summer. Oh, and don't go to Waterloo at all/don't pay Patrick back for expenditure of gas.
This makes my head explode, especially since I'm still carrying lingering bitterness for the lies of 'no, really, we'll pay for your entire university education' and 'of course it's financially feasible for you to go to Waterloo'.
As it is, even with the extra six hours I'm only scraping up enough to pay them back and (barely) pay for bus tickets to get to work. If I were working anywhere else, I wouldn't be capable of paying them back by the end of the summer.
Did I mention that currently the business is barely capable of supporting the people we have now? I've been here all day, and the phone has rung maybe five times in 6 1/2 hours. Work is not good. By working these extra hours, I'm a financial strain on my dad's company.
I also can't get OSAP, because (ironically) my parents are too rich and they're helping me.
It's very, very frustrating.
You see, I had a small problem with my parents last year. It was that originally, the house we were staying in was supposed to be rented to us for one year. Since I only live in Waterloo for eight months out of the year, they did not want to pay for four months of empty space. This was rectified when the 'landlord' agreed to cut it down to an eight-month lease.
I doubt I will have any such luck this year.
Thus, my parents are telling me that I must make $1680 extra this summer to pay them back for the extra four months.
Theoretically, this is possible if I work 6 extra hours a week and an extra week at the end of the summer. Oh, and don't go to Waterloo at all/don't pay Patrick back for expenditure of gas.
This makes my head explode, especially since I'm still carrying lingering bitterness for the lies of 'no, really, we'll pay for your entire university education' and 'of course it's financially feasible for you to go to Waterloo'.
As it is, even with the extra six hours I'm only scraping up enough to pay them back and (barely) pay for bus tickets to get to work. If I were working anywhere else, I wouldn't be capable of paying them back by the end of the summer.
Did I mention that currently the business is barely capable of supporting the people we have now? I've been here all day, and the phone has rung maybe five times in 6 1/2 hours. Work is not good. By working these extra hours, I'm a financial strain on my dad's company.
I also can't get OSAP, because (ironically) my parents are too rich and they're helping me.
It's very, very frustrating.
