I looked up these sneakers and they sell for $120 at Foot Locker.Why does a 13 year old kid need $120 sneakers? Why didn't he buy $60 or $70 sneakers and put the rest in the bank? That's what I would have done.That's what my Dad,a child of the Great Depression,taught me to do....live below your means.
Just sayin'...
Perfect opportunity for English teachers to point out the real world advantages of literacy... 13 year old would have known his dream shoes would be coveted by the neighborhood thugs, happens all the time, people get killed for “stuff”.
And what is the actual profit on those shoes? Americans can be so stupid.
Who says he needed them. He wanted them. He wanted them bad enough to work all summer for the money to buy them. They were his.
When my son was a boy, a neighbor kid stole his pocket knife. When we talked to the parents, they justified their kid’s behavior by saying our son didn’t need the knife, because he was too young. Never mind that their son was actually younger. It doesn’t matter if he needed it or not. It was his.
Because 'Merica, that's why!
Why do you care what a kid does with the money he earned by his own toil?
Are you one of those nanny-staters? Because you sound like one of those nanny-staters.