"By the way, your card is out of money. Put more in. If my gear isn't upgraded, I'll be ashamed."
I was shaking with anger. "The most important for you now is about grades and learning! Roy, wait at home and return everything you bought!"
Hearing my serious tone, Roy calmly said, "Dad, times have changed. Competing in studies is your generation's thing. Now, we don't care about that."
I stormed home angrily. Only to open the door, I found my mother-in-law, Amelia Hall, even angrier.
"James, can't you talk things out calmly?
"You called over ten times. Roy didn't answer because he was busy. Are you out of your mind?
"If Roy hadn't called me, I wouldn't know how you abuse him!"
It turned out that Roy had called in Amelia.
I took a deep breath and patiently asked Amelia, "Mom, did he tell you why I called him?"
"Didn't he just spend some money? Was it that serious?"
"Spent some money?" I glanced at Roy. He was watching from the living room. I said, "He spent all the 500,000 dollars we saved for Dad's surgery!"
Amelia was silent momentarily, then looked at pitiful Roy and said firmly, "What's wrong with him spending some money? Money is earned to be spent, not saved.