By Kayla Klimasko (Spring 2011, Section 2)
I am an economical procrastinator. I have chosen to wait until the last possible moment to complete this blog assignment. Why? Because I am rationally self-interested. I have chosen the option that I feel I will get the most gain out of.
By saving this assignment until the last possible moment, I have put myself under the most extreme of deadlines. I work well under pressure, so this is not an issue.
There were many nights where I considered starting the assignment; however I weighed the costs and benefits between doing the assignment and not doing the assignment. Clearly, not doing the assignment won.
For example, on February 11 I had some spare time and considered doing the assignment until I realized that it was Valentine’s Day weekend. My boyfriend lives four hours away so I ran a quick Marginal Cost Benefit Analysis in my head. The benefit of doing the assignment would have been that it would have been submitted early and could have received up to 10 bonus points. The cost would have been that I would have had to leave later to go visit my boyfriend and I would have got to spend less time with him. The benefit was not greater than the cost in that case
Then again on March 25 I had some spare time and considered doing this assignment. It again could have earned me bonus points, five this time. I was honestly very close to starting when there was a knock at my front door. I opened it and there was my boyfriend standing there with a bouquet of roses; he had drove four hours to surprise me. So again, I ran the Marginal Cost Benefit Analysis in my head. The benefit of doing the assignment would have been that it would still be early and worth five bonus points. The cost would have been that I could not spend that time with my boyfriend after he had just drove four hours to surprise me. Of course, the cost was too great for me to do the assignment then.
So now here I am on April 22 at 10:32 pm. This assignment is due in less than an hour and a half. I ran the Marginal Cost Benefit Analysis in my head for the last time. The benefit would be that the assignment would be submitted before the deadline and I would get credit for the assignment. The cost would be that I have to postpone going out on a Friday night a little bit later. I quickly realized that it is Good Friday and many people have gone home anyways so there will not be much going on tonight. Needless to say, the benefit is greater than the cost and I have finally completed the assignment.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Rising Gas Prices A Bad Thing?
by Greg Allamon (Spring 2011, Section 1)
Gas prices are expected to reach $5 dollars a gallon in the summer of 2011. This has huge effects on families because they often fill their gas tanks up once a week. This increase in price can account for a significant amount of a person’s spending. The list of cons is astounding, such as stunting economic growth. Instead of a visiting a store to buy goods and services many times when prices rise, consumers halt their spending. Other things such as family vacations are cancelled and that guilt free spending turns into a self conscience burden.
A different perspective through is the pros of the rising gas prices. There may not be a positive for “us” but for America as a whole. As prices rise less Americans will be on the road. If less people are driving, there will be less car accidents and fewer deaths. Another angle on this is the fact that people will drive slower to maximize their miles per gallon. Everybody knows that speed kills, so with less speed fewer humans should be killed. This brings us to our next topic.
Hybrid cars should be more sought after since gasoline is higher. With great gas mileage how could you pass one up if you are in the market for a new vehicle? When gas prices rose in 2007 sales rose for higher mileage cars, while trucks, SUVs, and vans decreased. In essence this leads to less air pollution. Air pollution is smog and carbon monoxide regular gasoline vehicles emit. A hybrid car produces less of this via less fuel used. There is a study from University of Birmingham in Great Britain that car pollution has been linked to pneumonia deaths.
Focusing on the business aspect, if anything, local businesses may profit. Instead of driving out of your way to a town or city shopping center, why not stop at a local business for shopping needs. If gas is at a point where you are losing money by driving a further distance, you may save more by spending the few cents extra from a local rather than finding a Wal-Mart or Kmart. This carries over to even farmers. They may start to open up more local stands selling fruits and vegetables.
One of the last benefits may be a healthier family lifestyle. If you cannot afford to go out everyday Americans may look forward to a movie night and cheaper recreation options. This may be great for those who feel family bonding has decreased with busier lifestyles. They may get to experience the outdoors more and just may learn something about themselves.
Gas prices are expected to reach $5 dollars a gallon in the summer of 2011. This has huge effects on families because they often fill their gas tanks up once a week. This increase in price can account for a significant amount of a person’s spending. The list of cons is astounding, such as stunting economic growth. Instead of a visiting a store to buy goods and services many times when prices rise, consumers halt their spending. Other things such as family vacations are cancelled and that guilt free spending turns into a self conscience burden.
A different perspective through is the pros of the rising gas prices. There may not be a positive for “us” but for America as a whole. As prices rise less Americans will be on the road. If less people are driving, there will be less car accidents and fewer deaths. Another angle on this is the fact that people will drive slower to maximize their miles per gallon. Everybody knows that speed kills, so with less speed fewer humans should be killed. This brings us to our next topic.
Hybrid cars should be more sought after since gasoline is higher. With great gas mileage how could you pass one up if you are in the market for a new vehicle? When gas prices rose in 2007 sales rose for higher mileage cars, while trucks, SUVs, and vans decreased. In essence this leads to less air pollution. Air pollution is smog and carbon monoxide regular gasoline vehicles emit. A hybrid car produces less of this via less fuel used. There is a study from University of Birmingham in Great Britain that car pollution has been linked to pneumonia deaths.
Focusing on the business aspect, if anything, local businesses may profit. Instead of driving out of your way to a town or city shopping center, why not stop at a local business for shopping needs. If gas is at a point where you are losing money by driving a further distance, you may save more by spending the few cents extra from a local rather than finding a Wal-Mart or Kmart. This carries over to even farmers. They may start to open up more local stands selling fruits and vegetables.
One of the last benefits may be a healthier family lifestyle. If you cannot afford to go out everyday Americans may look forward to a movie night and cheaper recreation options. This may be great for those who feel family bonding has decreased with busier lifestyles. They may get to experience the outdoors more and just may learn something about themselves.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Universities must shift to a profit seeking business model in order to survive
by Nick Reich (section 1, Spring 2011)
In a recent article posted on our school’s website entitled “A message to our students,” President Armenti expressed his growing concern towards Tom Corbett’s proposed budget. It seems our state’s government is rapidly losing interest in supporting public higher education as the funding provided by state appropriations has fallen from 63% to 30% over the past thirty years. (CalU Article) This creates an interesting circumstance for our university, as well as other colleges across the country. Typically universities such as ours have relied on state granted commonwealth money to bring quality facilities, teachers, and equipment to our students at a reasonably affordable tuition. However this “free money” is coming to an end and our board is forced to weigh their options, re-strategize, and ultimately find a way to generate sufficient revenue to keep the doors open.
Here are a few options that I see schools considering. The first and most appealing choice is to simply raise the student’s tuition. A university’s sale of knowledge can generally be viewed as an inelastic good as students typically do not withdraw because of a slight increase in tuition, they just take out more loans and accept the fact they a little deeper in the hole. College financial boards know this, and generally try to implement this with small increases over a several years; however this is not a permanent solution. As the university continues to raise their tuition they will in doing so destroy their appeal of being more affordable than state schools or other competitors, which in turn means fewer students to supply revenue.
The next option is not a solution, however can defiantly ease the pain. Investing in innovative energy saving technologies can dramatically reduce costs and provide essential tax breaks. For example, William Patterson University in New Jersey is making an effort to kill two birds with one stone as they near completion of their solar energy project. WPU has decided to provide shade and shelter to all of their existing parking lots with solar panel canopies. These canopies are providing the university with up to 20% of their entire energy consumption, as well as making everyday life for students a little cushier. On top of that the state has acknowledged the universities strong effort to green energy with an additional one million to upgrade heating, air condition, and ventilation. (WPU article) Unfortunately as mentioned before this is not a solution because you need to spend money in order to save money, and our goal at the moment is to generate sustainable revenue.
This leaves us with one last option, advertising. The day has come where our institutions of higher education are forced to give up the preservation of a pristine education and start slapping Esurance and DirectTV stickers on our textbooks and cafeteria trays. As annoying as it is seeing some sort of ad placement everywhere you look, it’s just how the world works these days. No longer can companies be profitable by simply being good at what they do, but instead they must distribute shares over the NY stock exchange and hope other larger companies what to put their name on them. Although not the most admirable solution, it seems the most viable as it will save our students from paying out of their own pocket, and still provide immediate financial relief. Some might consider it selling out; however I think it’s about time our universities stop relying on the state to heat our class rooms and start relying on Comcast, after all it is the American way. Who knows, if a few years we might see “calc 4 final exam brought to you by Enzyte” on the top of our test or even “Red Bull presents California University” on our welcome sign.
Work Cited
http://www.calu.edu/news/press-releases/2011/03/presidents-message.htm
http://www.wpunj.edu/news/detail.dot?id=223088
In a recent article posted on our school’s website entitled “A message to our students,” President Armenti expressed his growing concern towards Tom Corbett’s proposed budget. It seems our state’s government is rapidly losing interest in supporting public higher education as the funding provided by state appropriations has fallen from 63% to 30% over the past thirty years. (CalU Article) This creates an interesting circumstance for our university, as well as other colleges across the country. Typically universities such as ours have relied on state granted commonwealth money to bring quality facilities, teachers, and equipment to our students at a reasonably affordable tuition. However this “free money” is coming to an end and our board is forced to weigh their options, re-strategize, and ultimately find a way to generate sufficient revenue to keep the doors open.
Here are a few options that I see schools considering. The first and most appealing choice is to simply raise the student’s tuition. A university’s sale of knowledge can generally be viewed as an inelastic good as students typically do not withdraw because of a slight increase in tuition, they just take out more loans and accept the fact they a little deeper in the hole. College financial boards know this, and generally try to implement this with small increases over a several years; however this is not a permanent solution. As the university continues to raise their tuition they will in doing so destroy their appeal of being more affordable than state schools or other competitors, which in turn means fewer students to supply revenue.
The next option is not a solution, however can defiantly ease the pain. Investing in innovative energy saving technologies can dramatically reduce costs and provide essential tax breaks. For example, William Patterson University in New Jersey is making an effort to kill two birds with one stone as they near completion of their solar energy project. WPU has decided to provide shade and shelter to all of their existing parking lots with solar panel canopies. These canopies are providing the university with up to 20% of their entire energy consumption, as well as making everyday life for students a little cushier. On top of that the state has acknowledged the universities strong effort to green energy with an additional one million to upgrade heating, air condition, and ventilation. (WPU article) Unfortunately as mentioned before this is not a solution because you need to spend money in order to save money, and our goal at the moment is to generate sustainable revenue.
This leaves us with one last option, advertising. The day has come where our institutions of higher education are forced to give up the preservation of a pristine education and start slapping Esurance and DirectTV stickers on our textbooks and cafeteria trays. As annoying as it is seeing some sort of ad placement everywhere you look, it’s just how the world works these days. No longer can companies be profitable by simply being good at what they do, but instead they must distribute shares over the NY stock exchange and hope other larger companies what to put their name on them. Although not the most admirable solution, it seems the most viable as it will save our students from paying out of their own pocket, and still provide immediate financial relief. Some might consider it selling out; however I think it’s about time our universities stop relying on the state to heat our class rooms and start relying on Comcast, after all it is the American way. Who knows, if a few years we might see “calc 4 final exam brought to you by Enzyte” on the top of our test or even “Red Bull presents California University” on our welcome sign.
Work Cited
http://www.calu.edu/news/press-releases/2011/03/presidents-message.htm
http://www.wpunj.edu/news/detail.dot?id=223088
Too many wants
by Anthony Abrahamsen (Section 2, Spring 2011)
We have a hit a point in our generation where scarcity has reached an all time high. This is not because we have run out of resources it is because we have become too greedy. Everybody wants to have everything, but few are willing to work for it. It’s clear that our wants are much greater than our resources, yet because we live in America, people think that they are entitled to have whatever they want. Even though our country has been in economic turmoil for the past few years, we still are the greatest country in the world, but we take it for granted. There are many poorer countries than ours with people who are much happier than us. So why are we unhappy, and going through this bad contraction? The answer is simply greed; Americans have gotten too used to luxuries.
There has been a lot of fuss over the recently proposed budget cuts for schools in Pennsylvania. These cuts are happening because our country is simply too far in debt and our leaders are looking for ways to fix that. Schools are an easy copout for the government because the government is who fund schools, so they are the first big industry to lose money. The question I have is do we really need everything that colleges offer these days? When I was a student at Duquesne University, I had the luxury of a top of the line, 5 story gym. This gym, aka the Power Center, cost over a million dollars to make, and they used every penny. It has multiple weight rooms, basketball courts, racquetball courts, cardio areas, and pretty much any physical activity has become a class in the Power Center. In the last couple years, California University has gone through many cosmetic changes. There are new dorms, a new arena currently being built, all of which has cost millions of dollars. I have been in a few of the newer dorms at Cal, and they are beautiful. A double dorm at Cal is twice the size of the dorm I stayed in at Duquesne, which is five times the price of tuition. While all of these things are nice, are they necessary? My answer is no. College is a place for learning; 18, 19, and 20 year olds do not need to live in the Taj Mahal of dorms to get a good education. It seems to be like the majority of the funding schools receive is being put towards luxuries, but this is what our generation wants. Now that our government is cutting budgets, everyone is in an uproar. I believe that we have become extremely spoiled as a country, and now we are paying for it. They say that you have to spend money to make money, but our country has spent too much. Our country as a whole needs to realize that we are very fortunate to live where we do, and that if you want everything you can have it, but it requires hard work. That is the American Dream, and it seems that we have lost sight of that.
We have a hit a point in our generation where scarcity has reached an all time high. This is not because we have run out of resources it is because we have become too greedy. Everybody wants to have everything, but few are willing to work for it. It’s clear that our wants are much greater than our resources, yet because we live in America, people think that they are entitled to have whatever they want. Even though our country has been in economic turmoil for the past few years, we still are the greatest country in the world, but we take it for granted. There are many poorer countries than ours with people who are much happier than us. So why are we unhappy, and going through this bad contraction? The answer is simply greed; Americans have gotten too used to luxuries.
There has been a lot of fuss over the recently proposed budget cuts for schools in Pennsylvania. These cuts are happening because our country is simply too far in debt and our leaders are looking for ways to fix that. Schools are an easy copout for the government because the government is who fund schools, so they are the first big industry to lose money. The question I have is do we really need everything that colleges offer these days? When I was a student at Duquesne University, I had the luxury of a top of the line, 5 story gym. This gym, aka the Power Center, cost over a million dollars to make, and they used every penny. It has multiple weight rooms, basketball courts, racquetball courts, cardio areas, and pretty much any physical activity has become a class in the Power Center. In the last couple years, California University has gone through many cosmetic changes. There are new dorms, a new arena currently being built, all of which has cost millions of dollars. I have been in a few of the newer dorms at Cal, and they are beautiful. A double dorm at Cal is twice the size of the dorm I stayed in at Duquesne, which is five times the price of tuition. While all of these things are nice, are they necessary? My answer is no. College is a place for learning; 18, 19, and 20 year olds do not need to live in the Taj Mahal of dorms to get a good education. It seems to be like the majority of the funding schools receive is being put towards luxuries, but this is what our generation wants. Now that our government is cutting budgets, everyone is in an uproar. I believe that we have become extremely spoiled as a country, and now we are paying for it. They say that you have to spend money to make money, but our country has spent too much. Our country as a whole needs to realize that we are very fortunate to live where we do, and that if you want everything you can have it, but it requires hard work. That is the American Dream, and it seems that we have lost sight of that.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
What does a relationship really cost?
by Nicole Pegg (Spring 2011, sect. 01)
I know that I never actually thought that a relationship cost anything, because people never really associate a cost with being in an intimate relationship, especially opportunity cost. First of all, opportunity cost is defined as the cost related to the next-best choice available. When people talk about the cost of a relationship the first thing they probably think of is accounting costs. For example, they probably think about the cost of going out on dates, buying each other things, or just spending money on various things. But what people do not consider is the opportunity costs that come along with being in a relationship.
There are many opportunity costs that couples encounter while being in a relationship; whether it is a few months, a few years, or a life time that they spend together. Some opportunity costs that people in relationship encounter are giving up time with their family and friends to spend time with their significant other. I, myself, have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for 2 years now, so I know first-hand some of the opportunity costs that come along with being in a relationship. For example, my boyfriend is a year older than I am, so during my senior year I did not go out as much as my friends did to parties or other social events. He was away at college so I did not want to do anything that would upset him or to put additional stress on the already stressful situation. Also, during that time my boyfriend gave up going to parties since I was there with him. People do not participate in various activities while they are in a relationship. Some of the activities they give up are exercising, work, or meeting new people. They give up these activities in order to spend time with his or her partner. When people are in a relationship, they are not as open to meeting new people compared to someone who is single. Therefore, they give up expanding their social life. There are many others things that could couples give up while being in a relationship.
While being in a relationship, people have to decide whether or not to stay in the relationship based on benefits versus costs. Let me first start off by explaining what I mean when I say “cost” and “benefits.” According to Wikipedia, in economics a cost is an alternative that is given up as a result of a decision. A benefit is something that promotes well-being or a useful aid. If cost out ways the benefits of the relationship, it is wise to either end the relationship or make changes so that the benefit is greater than the cost. On the other hand, if benefit out weights the cost associated with the relationship, it is a good indicator that the relationship should continue and will be successful. Most couples usually do not take into account what their relationship really costs.
So whether you are currently in a relationship or for future relationships, always consider what it is really costing you to be in that relationship. Never think that something is free, because there is always a cost, whether it is money, time, or anything else. When you make one decision you always give up doing something else.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost)
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/benefit)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost)
I know that I never actually thought that a relationship cost anything, because people never really associate a cost with being in an intimate relationship, especially opportunity cost. First of all, opportunity cost is defined as the cost related to the next-best choice available. When people talk about the cost of a relationship the first thing they probably think of is accounting costs. For example, they probably think about the cost of going out on dates, buying each other things, or just spending money on various things. But what people do not consider is the opportunity costs that come along with being in a relationship.
There are many opportunity costs that couples encounter while being in a relationship; whether it is a few months, a few years, or a life time that they spend together. Some opportunity costs that people in relationship encounter are giving up time with their family and friends to spend time with their significant other. I, myself, have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for 2 years now, so I know first-hand some of the opportunity costs that come along with being in a relationship. For example, my boyfriend is a year older than I am, so during my senior year I did not go out as much as my friends did to parties or other social events. He was away at college so I did not want to do anything that would upset him or to put additional stress on the already stressful situation. Also, during that time my boyfriend gave up going to parties since I was there with him. People do not participate in various activities while they are in a relationship. Some of the activities they give up are exercising, work, or meeting new people. They give up these activities in order to spend time with his or her partner. When people are in a relationship, they are not as open to meeting new people compared to someone who is single. Therefore, they give up expanding their social life. There are many others things that could couples give up while being in a relationship.
While being in a relationship, people have to decide whether or not to stay in the relationship based on benefits versus costs. Let me first start off by explaining what I mean when I say “cost” and “benefits.” According to Wikipedia, in economics a cost is an alternative that is given up as a result of a decision. A benefit is something that promotes well-being or a useful aid. If cost out ways the benefits of the relationship, it is wise to either end the relationship or make changes so that the benefit is greater than the cost. On the other hand, if benefit out weights the cost associated with the relationship, it is a good indicator that the relationship should continue and will be successful. Most couples usually do not take into account what their relationship really costs.
So whether you are currently in a relationship or for future relationships, always consider what it is really costing you to be in that relationship. Never think that something is free, because there is always a cost, whether it is money, time, or anything else. When you make one decision you always give up doing something else.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost)
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/benefit)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Why am I writing this assignment now?
Domnick Virgillo (Spring 2011 Section 1)
As I am writing this assignment, I can’t help but think of the other multiple times I have sat down to write this assignment but didn’t. Instead of writing this assignment, I decided to work out, grab something to eat, play video games, work on other homework, hang out with friends, take a nap, check my email, get on Facebook, read the news and watch TV.
But why am I writing the assignment now? Why haven’t I written the assignment any time in the past month? The answer is simple; the marginal benefits equal the marginal costs.
To understand this, you must understand opportunity cost and relative price. See, opportunity cost is the value of the next best alternative given up when a choice is made. So when I decided to do something else instead of writing this blog, the blog is the opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is expressed in relative price, which is the price of one choice relative to the price of another. So any of the activities listed above had a higher ‘relative price’ than writing this blog assignment at the time.
However, writing the assignment now has a higher ‘relative price’ than any other activity. Again this is because the marginal benefits equal the marginal costs. Marginal benefit refers to what people are willing to give up in order to obtain one more unit of a good, while marginal cost refers to the value of what is given up in order to produce that additional unit. So my marginal cost on writing this assignment would be my time spent on writing this assignment, because that is what I’m willing to give up. The activities listed above would be what the time would have been spent on, so the benefits have to equal the activities and the time. The marginal benefits are: I get the assignment done and don’t have to worry about it anymore, I have a possibility to acquire bonus points for this assignment, and I’ll have nothing left to do for Spring Break. I have now reached the point where my marginal costs equal my marginal benefits; therefore, I am writing this assignment. In the past month, my marginal cost (time) outweighed my marginal benefit, so I kept putting the assignment off.
When our marginal benefits equal the marginal costs that’s when we reach our maximum net benefit. Now my costs and benefits in this decision might be different than yours; however, my wants and needs have been met based off of my OWN rational self-interested decision.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunitycost
http://www.netmba.com/econ/micro/cost/opportunity/
As I am writing this assignment, I can’t help but think of the other multiple times I have sat down to write this assignment but didn’t. Instead of writing this assignment, I decided to work out, grab something to eat, play video games, work on other homework, hang out with friends, take a nap, check my email, get on Facebook, read the news and watch TV.
But why am I writing the assignment now? Why haven’t I written the assignment any time in the past month? The answer is simple; the marginal benefits equal the marginal costs.
To understand this, you must understand opportunity cost and relative price. See, opportunity cost is the value of the next best alternative given up when a choice is made. So when I decided to do something else instead of writing this blog, the blog is the opportunity cost. Opportunity cost is expressed in relative price, which is the price of one choice relative to the price of another. So any of the activities listed above had a higher ‘relative price’ than writing this blog assignment at the time.
However, writing the assignment now has a higher ‘relative price’ than any other activity. Again this is because the marginal benefits equal the marginal costs. Marginal benefit refers to what people are willing to give up in order to obtain one more unit of a good, while marginal cost refers to the value of what is given up in order to produce that additional unit. So my marginal cost on writing this assignment would be my time spent on writing this assignment, because that is what I’m willing to give up. The activities listed above would be what the time would have been spent on, so the benefits have to equal the activities and the time. The marginal benefits are: I get the assignment done and don’t have to worry about it anymore, I have a possibility to acquire bonus points for this assignment, and I’ll have nothing left to do for Spring Break. I have now reached the point where my marginal costs equal my marginal benefits; therefore, I am writing this assignment. In the past month, my marginal cost (time) outweighed my marginal benefit, so I kept putting the assignment off.
When our marginal benefits equal the marginal costs that’s when we reach our maximum net benefit. Now my costs and benefits in this decision might be different than yours; however, my wants and needs have been met based off of my OWN rational self-interested decision.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunitycost
http://www.netmba.com/econ/micro/cost/opportunity/
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Costs of Dating
by Larry Davis (section 02, Spring 2011)
I’m Larry Davis a near college graduate at the University of California Pennsylvania! I’m currently in a relationship with a very sweet beautiful woman. And not to mention she’s very loyal! She’s a girl currently attending (WVU) West Virginia University. I’ve been with her for almost five years. Now the problem that came about is she gives a little and expects more in return. For example she always says that she likes a little bit of rap music but a lot of it is very degrading to woman. And in relationship she always quote things should be 50-50. But what I’ve noticed out of these five years of dealing with her is that this is a contradiction to what she’s saying. Now I’m not at all saying relationships are based on price tags at all! What I’m saying is after three out of these five years of dealing Ive noticed Im spending double and sometimes triple than what she’s spending. And not 1 time out of these five years has things changed. It’s becoming a normal pattern! Now to reiterate her words things should be 50-50 in a relationship. Now this year for say my birthday was March 17th and her birthday March 20th so I said to myself I’m going to test the waters to see if I lower her cost would she make it an issue? So she asked babe what would you like for your birthday? I stated you know me whatever you want as long as its from the heart! So she replied I saw a pair of air Jordans for about $120 maybe a little more that I can see you in, I think I saw them at the mall or what not. So I replied whatever! So I picked the Jordans up I think Friday because her birthday fell on this past Sunday. I thanked her! So I told her babe money’s a little tight this year I might not of mentioned my sisters in an abusive relationship and we been putting money aside for a few months to get her away from this quack. She had a distraught look on her face as if she wasn’t feeling what I were saying. Now to remind you this was all a prank, just to get a better understanding to whom I’m dealing with. So Saturday I called her and stated babe your b-days approaching what would you like me to get you? Well she never even took into consideration what was said about my sisters issue! She replied a Louis Vuitton Purse is what I want! So I checked online prices well these bags were starting at 1 grand and up. I mean the wallets were 4 and 500 dollars and up. So I called her later and explained my finances weren’t ready for that as of now. Babe you know my situation! She flipped out I think I’m worth it! I said you are I just cant afford it this year. Now dinner and a movie is a little more in my budget. She said you know what I don’t want anything you deal with your issues. I called her on her birthday and she didn’t answer so I sent a text message happy birthday and she replied thank you! I text back can I take you up on that offer?and she never replied! What do you all think?
I’m Larry Davis a near college graduate at the University of California Pennsylvania! I’m currently in a relationship with a very sweet beautiful woman. And not to mention she’s very loyal! She’s a girl currently attending (WVU) West Virginia University. I’ve been with her for almost five years. Now the problem that came about is she gives a little and expects more in return. For example she always says that she likes a little bit of rap music but a lot of it is very degrading to woman. And in relationship she always quote things should be 50-50. But what I’ve noticed out of these five years of dealing with her is that this is a contradiction to what she’s saying. Now I’m not at all saying relationships are based on price tags at all! What I’m saying is after three out of these five years of dealing Ive noticed Im spending double and sometimes triple than what she’s spending. And not 1 time out of these five years has things changed. It’s becoming a normal pattern! Now to reiterate her words things should be 50-50 in a relationship. Now this year for say my birthday was March 17th and her birthday March 20th so I said to myself I’m going to test the waters to see if I lower her cost would she make it an issue? So she asked babe what would you like for your birthday? I stated you know me whatever you want as long as its from the heart! So she replied I saw a pair of air Jordans for about $120 maybe a little more that I can see you in, I think I saw them at the mall or what not. So I replied whatever! So I picked the Jordans up I think Friday because her birthday fell on this past Sunday. I thanked her! So I told her babe money’s a little tight this year I might not of mentioned my sisters in an abusive relationship and we been putting money aside for a few months to get her away from this quack. She had a distraught look on her face as if she wasn’t feeling what I were saying. Now to remind you this was all a prank, just to get a better understanding to whom I’m dealing with. So Saturday I called her and stated babe your b-days approaching what would you like me to get you? Well she never even took into consideration what was said about my sisters issue! She replied a Louis Vuitton Purse is what I want! So I checked online prices well these bags were starting at 1 grand and up. I mean the wallets were 4 and 500 dollars and up. So I called her later and explained my finances weren’t ready for that as of now. Babe you know my situation! She flipped out I think I’m worth it! I said you are I just cant afford it this year. Now dinner and a movie is a little more in my budget. She said you know what I don’t want anything you deal with your issues. I called her on her birthday and she didn’t answer so I sent a text message happy birthday and she replied thank you! I text back can I take you up on that offer?and she never replied! What do you all think?
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