[focusracer]

Well, kinda. I replaced the fuse and everything's fine. I was going to let it slide but his dad showed up today wanting to talk to "the asshole who swore and screamed" at his kid. So we talked and I gave him a bit of an exxagerated value of everything and then said "By th way, is he giving me the hundred bucks it cost to fix my deck or are you, I was gonna just let it be but then you had to come down here to berate me for something I was totally justified in doing, I should have smacked him a couple times to teach a lesson." He quite promptly gave me 5 20's and walked away.

To add insult to injury, I guess yesterday was his second warning/screwup and he hit somebody with a forklift today and ended up getting fired. He lasted 4 days and that's, according to him, the longest he's had a job. He's 21 and daddy does everything and buys everything and fixes his mistakes for him. The kid's gonna amount to nothing. I ALMOST feel sorry for him.

If I'm ever cursed to have kids, I'll give them a good life and they won't want for much because I'll do the best I can but I will not spoil them. They'll know the value of a dollar and they'll damn sure know the meaning of hard work.