Do you parents out there wonder if you're rearing your children properly? Here's some consolation: It's a given that you're doing a better job than this parent did:
A TEENAGER nicked his father’s credit card — and blew £12,000 in a FOUR-DAY splurge.
Tom Smith, 17, swiped it from a wallet while dad John was out jogging.
Then he legged it from his London home with the NatWest Mastercard and jetted from Stansted to Rome.
And after blowing a fortune on designer gear by forging his dad’s signature, he whined: “If Dad had got me these things in the first place I wouldn’t have had to steal his card.”
His dad, after cursing him a bit, has forgiven him, and has hired a (presumably high-priced) lawyer. Just how absent a parent do you have to be to produce a kid this shallow? A kid who considers Gucci and Prada to be his God-given right and is willing to steal over 22 grand (in American money) from his dad to get it? I doubt this is the kid's first larcenous act, and probably not his last.
Posted by kswygert at February 9, 2004 01:57 PM