Kids today are so spoiled

I remember when I was a kid I would fight for my time on AOL to use AIM with my friends.  It was years before my dad caved and got a separate phone line for the modem (56K, only the best), which was a combined birthday gift for my sister and I if I recall.  Then I discovered free online gaming with the epic war RTS games of Red Alert: Command and Conquer.  It wasn’t until years later that sites like Amazon and eBay existed, and even with their arrival I spent years paying via check since systems like PayPal seemed sketchy to me.  Of course, over time the virtual shifted and grew.  I now have more online accounts than I can recall and PayPal and online credit card payments are the norm.  I think i’ve used maybe 20 checks in the past 5 years.  Today however, I came across a new internet payment option that just blew my mind – “Bill My Parent$”

I didn’t investigate the feature as it seemed pretty self-explanatory, but I imagined back to all the things I wanted as a child but could not obtain for economic reasons and this feature seems like a god-send.  Of course you’d deal with the wrath of your parents for the purchase later, but for less than $50 purchases (i.e. Nintendo games) they would just yell at you and then maybe take the game away for a while, eventually giving it back to you for good behavior since they are too lazy to bother with the return process that internet purchases afford.  So, kudos to the youth of today for obtaining this feature – however, it is one more reason my kids (product pending) should be banned from the internet.