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Kids and their music and app downloads, eh?

My normally puny bank account balance seemed even more anemic than usual, so I opened up my transaction activity list. Whaaaa…more than $100 in iTunes music and app downloads had been debited from my account and who else in the world would want Alicia Keys, The Black Eyed Peas and something called Surviving High School at six in the morning?

Jordan.

I’d like to chalk up her spending spree to a crazy misunderstanding. You know math is not her strongest subject and, perhaps, she thought that $15 gift card on her account was the same as $150. Q blew that theory out of the water. She knew exactly what she was doing, he told me, and I told you to take your bank card off her account months ago.

Touché.

I wrote Apple a letter. I explained that my teenager took full responsibility for her actions and that I shouldn’t have had my bank card on her account without restrictions, but there was no way I could take the hit for more than $100 from my checking account. The very wonderful Katherine responded to my note with instructions on how to restrict downloads on the kids’ iPhones and how to put a passcode on all purchase attempts. She also refunded the money. She must hate The Black Eyed Peas as much as I do. Thanks, Apple. Thanks, Katherine. As Whitney Houston, another one of my teenager’s crappy downloads has said, I will always love you.

Lovelinks #12 is open for voting.


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