NP. Are you dense? The toddler feels the consequence of the wet towel when the toddler goes swimming and comes out and wants a towel but finds it wet. What consequence does a toddler comprehend from her mother paying out a couple hundred bucks? I feel like this could go either way and both parties have some culpability. I would probably have offered some money but been annoyed if they took it. |
If the mother had left the phone some distance from the edge of the pool and the kid had dug it out of her bag, walked over to the pool, and dropped it in, that would have been the fault of the boy's parent, because they should have been watching him better.
But if you leave your phone in a perilous place and it comes to harm, that's your fault. |
+1 I know it’s hard to be a parent but you signed up for this, cupcake. Pay up for your lack of supervision. Maybe take a parenting class? |
Literally don’t care. Learn how to watch your kid. |
You sound very prepared to graciously decline the offer from the child's parent... |
Maybe the proper etiquette in this situation is for the child's parent to offer to pay and for the phone owner to decline.
But it sounds like the child's parent is just asking to get fleeced if she politely offers to pay to replace the wet phone. Wiser course of action is to apologize, leave, and act like it never happened. |
Good answer |
So if you walk down a dark alley, you deserve what you get, right? |
The victim blaming here is gross. |
Oh, please. No. But if you park under a tree and your car gets covered with guano, that's something you should have foreseen. Perhaps you equate your phone with your body. Mine is a material possession, which doesn't mean I don't have a right to see that others show it reasonable respect. But leaving it right next to a pool surrounded by children would be me not showing it much respect, either. |
Total waste of money. Effectively you’re paying for another phone on a layaway plan, except you probably never get the phone. |
I can see that you haven't run the math and/or take better care of your phone than I do. If my phone costs $800, then $12/month for 2 years is worth it, if I or my kids destroy one or more phones year. |
I can't believe this thread is 22 pages long.
I also can't believe the phone obsession. Last weekend at our pool two people were sitting in the pool, on the steps, with phones, looking at whatever, w while kids were jumping around, splashing, etc. Just put the phone away! |
+1 billion. |
It's not like something happened to her body. If you leave your car unlocked and someone steals from it, the cops lecture you on locking your doors. If you leave your wallet somewhere and it gets stolen, you shouldn't have left it. If you drop $100 and someone else picks it up before you realize, that's your fault for dropping it. If you leave your phone in the puddle next to the pool and a kid picks it up, it's YOUR FAULT |