Ethics question
Say you’re getting a cellphone for your son for his birthday. Say you planned to add a line to your existing account, and let him use one of your older, but perfectly good and not outdated, phones, because, well, he’s 14 and fourteen year olds do all kinds of damage to cellphones.
And say while you’re on the phone setting up the new line, they offer you a free phone. You can have this one 
, worth about $200. It happens to be the phone you really want. For yourself.
Or maybe you can have this one 
, worth about $130. It happens to be the phone you already have, a perfectly good phone for a fourteen year old boy.
Do you get this one
and give the kid the one that you already have, knowing that he’s going to absolutely freak that you even got him a phone because he’s convinced he’s not getting one, and he really doesn’t care what kind of phone it is, as long as it works?
November 28th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I am all about the “Upgrade Mom, Hand Down to Kid” routine. In fact, I bought myself a new printer yesterday so I can pass my old one on to Eric. New flatware last week, with the old stuff getting packed away for Emily (Eric already has the old-old flatware).
November 28th, 2006 at 10:02 pm
Get the phone YOU want. You’re paying for it afterall and I’m thinking boys aren’t probably as bad as girls when wanting all the bells and whistles on a phone. I could be wrong, but since I don’t have boys, I have no way of knowing. Anyway, be selfish just this once, get the phone for you, pass on the old one to the boy!
November 29th, 2006 at 7:07 am
Get the Phone you want for yourself. No contest there.
November 29th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Ah, I love when the world agrees with me! I’m getting a new phone, yay! Prepare to be assaulted with camera phone shots, I miss having one!