“Son, See the buildings there. Before I started my own business, I had lived in one of those apartments for 6 years. My workplace was in downtown but since the rent here was cheap, I stayed here. The metro station is 2 miles from here and daily I used to walk to the station. How hard it was in those days! “. A millionaire father recounted his hardships to his teenage son to teach him about the importance of hard work.
As they sat in their Mercedes Benz parked just opposite the buildings, the father waited eagerly for his son’s reaction. His son, who was fiddling with his iphone all that time, suddenly glanced up and said “Dad! I’m getting late for the birthday party in downtown. Can you please drive us there fast?”
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How sad that his son wouldn’t even listen to him. His father was giving him an important lesson. He will be sorry someday that he didn’t listen. Great story!
Hi son can’t understand his father’s agony. After all , the son got all the comforts even before he asked.
That’s true. He grew up with “a silver spoon in his mouth.” Why should he be concerned with such “trivial” things especially since there is a party to go to! 😀
yes 🙂
The boy wasn’t even paying much attention
His mind was on the party.
Yes 🙂
The youth of today!
So true.
Yeah, the kid’s never going to get it… Nice take on the prompt!
Thanks,sonya,for your comments 🙂
My pleasure 🙂
I think the Dad’s lesson fell on deaf ears. It is different to have built your fortune and your business then to merely be the recipient of the fall out of that business – Iphones, allowance, probably his own BMW or whatever brand someday. I think the little boy will have to be taught the value of hard work some other day when he is older. Perhaps, he can come and work at the bottom of his Dad’s company in highschool. Or pay his own way through university. Great story with a sadly lost morale.
That’s the bad thing about social media. It has created a “heads down” society (heads down because they are constantly looking down at their devices…haha) Everyone is so “plugged”. They become oblivious to their surroundings. The dad should remove his son’s iphone before talking to him. 😂
That’s a great option. Dad should take away his son’s phone, at least then his son will start paying attention 😊
😄
My dad used to threaten us that he will disconnect the television cable if we don’t listen to him😀
That’s a good one! Did it work?😄
It did work, sometimes 😊
Haha! 😄 At least he didn’t threaten to throw away the TV set.
I love the generation spin. Nicely suits the prompt.
I think his spoilt son might need to be taught this lesson another way – he seems to have grown up getting everything handed to him on a plate. Great story. 🙂
The times they are a changin’.
It’s what kids do. They have little interest in the past of their parent.
Life … never the same again. Nicely done …
Isadora 😎
Thanks so much, Isadora.
So true to life these days!
Thanks so much 🙂
Great story! What is tomorrow’s society going to look like?
Thanks a lot, Alixa
My pleasure 🙂
Another case of Afluenza Syndrome if you ask me. Well written story. 🙂
Susan, Thanks a lot for reading the post and providing your comments. Yes. It’s affluenza syndrome 🙂
Aww, the sad reality of our generation. I hope he realizes the imontance of his father’s advice before it’s too late. 😔
Hope so.
Thank you Jahnavi.