Tommy Jordan is my hero.
You may have already found out about this on social media.
A 15-year-old girl named Hannah posts a scathing dissertation about her parents on Facebook. Namely her father.
I should point out that he works in IT for a living.
He's posted a video to YouTube, where he responds to Hannah's little online tirade.
I will also point out that Mr. Jordan is a second-amendment advocate. While he doesn't say this openly, it's pretty much implied through the .45 automatic he's wearing on his hip.
I like this guy already before he even says a word in his thick North Carolina accent.
Cowboy hat, buckle, jeans, pistol. A man's man.
But he's hurting.
This big fella is wrestling with emotions...sadness and anger, among others.
Because Hannah posted her thoughts of him online for the whole world to see.
She blocked family and church from it. How was she that foolish to think that this would NOT somehow get back to him?
Especially when he's an IT guy who does most of the work on her laptop when she wants it?
To make a long story short, he does find out what she says. It's painful.
While you may believe that this kind of behavior is typical of your average 15-year-old girl, the way she chose to express it is not.
I was a teenager once. I hated having to do chores. I may have even mumbled an expletive under my breath while doing so. And my father may have thrown me up against a wall a couple times for it. Even after giving me ample warning beforehand.
But I took it like the man I wanted to be. And learned from it.
I never, ever would have resorted to broadcasting my thoughts about the whole business. Because hard work was rewarded in my house. Misdeeds were appropriately punished.
And this time the punishment fit the crime.
Mr. Jordan fired his .45 pistol at Hannah's laptop in retribution for the private thoughts she chose to make public. He did not do this in a knee-jerk fashion.
He called his wife to try and get her to talk him out of it. Once she learned of what the girl had done, she told him to put a bullet in it for her. Mr. Jordan emptied his clip into it.
You want a new laptop, kid? Go out and buy one.
He's already told her to get a job if she doesn't want to do chores. Her efforts have been non-existent.
"I'm not your damn slave," Hannah writes.
Well guess what, honey...Daddy's not yours, either.
Upgrading your laptop so it can do what you want it to do isn't part of a parent's obligation to his or her kid. Until you're 18, our responsibilities are to make sure you're educated, fed, clothed, and housed in a habitable environment.
That's what the law dictates insofar as your 'rights'. Anything above that is a PRIVILEGE.
And she believes she should be paid for her chores around the house.
She might want to rethink her strategy...she's actually had entry-level offers for part-time work by potential employers who have seen the video.
According to Money Magazine, the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 in today's dollars translates to almost a quarter of a million dollars.
That's an awful lot of money.
So the question Hannah should ask herself this:
Is that quarter of a million from her parents a gift...or a LOAN???
NEXT WEEK: Fit over Fat
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