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Thank you Responsibility to your family Allah shmoop family's heir

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the worst Are we right Where are we Right Well

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that's going to melanie anyway Who could take or leave

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hers there Okay or what Abs Like they put a

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roof over her head and make sure she's clothed and

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fed and love her unconditionally But other than that what

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are they good for They're like so embarrassing They're always

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making dumb jokes when she has friends over or showing

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random people naked baby pictures of her or just being

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totally out of touch and dumb So melanie does whatever

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she can to distance herself from them He makes every

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effort to disobey the rules they set if curfew's at

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nine she's out till eleven If her mom asked her

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to text and let her know where she is she

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completely forgets And she hasn't done a household chore since

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that one time she decided to do the dishes just

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because you know because well it made her hands feel

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warm and she doesn't show her little brother any consideration

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either Total waste of space that one get older grow

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a brain and then maybe she'll give him the time

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Of day well in the meantime she'll just get off

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on making her brother feel alone and ignored and making

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her parents worried and distraught beyond belief because hey at

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least it's more interesting than a meal together at the

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dinner table or family game night monopoly So one day

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melanie's driving to the mall and she's on the phone

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with her bestie britney who she's going to be seeing

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in like five minutes But whatever she's griping about whatever

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stupid thing her parents i've done lately to make her

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miserable and just as she's getting really into it she

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hears a thud and then another thud What now Well

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normally melanie would just keep on driving but some people

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outside are screaming like they just broke their cellphones Don't

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you figure she better pull over and see what's up

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Well here's what's up melanie on her phone illegally and

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paying zero attention Anything around her just plowed through two

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kids who are in a crosswalk One of them will

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be in critical condition but we'll pull through the other

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one Not so much So what happens now Well melanie's

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A minor She gets her license taken away And it's

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Pretty much going to screw up her life in a

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variety of ways but not just her life Her parents

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will now be totally destitute after having to pay damages

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for her irresponsible actions cause yeah she's under eighteen so

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her parents are responsible for all that stuff That's why

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they set rules in the first place and why it

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was so important for her to follow him But she

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didn't Her little brother gets isolated and shunned by his

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pierre since he's the brother of that girl you know

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the one who killed the kid Oh and his hopes

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of going to college Well not so much anymore They

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have no money Her mother and father start fighting like

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cats and dogs thanks to the mess that is now

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their lives and a divorce follows lives and shambles depression

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hurt anger Thank goodness it was just her stupid family

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But wait what's that a tear or two We see

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Well turns out that despite the show she put on

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melanie actually cares about the folks she's been forced to

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live with all her life It can be fun to

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complain but when it comes right down to it these

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people are your blood they're the only people who love

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you as much as they love themselves who would do

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anything for you and it doesn't pay to take that

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responsibility lightly even though melanie was just the kid well

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it doesn't mean she didn't have the power to totally

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tear apart the family and okay so not every situation

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ends in death destitution and divorce like we're illustrating here

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but a family is a single unit Melanie had a

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responsibility to contribute to that unit to be a part

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of it and to look out for its preservation by

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being responsible in all other aspects of her life and

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she wasn't and look what happened she chose instead to

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harp on what annoyed her about them and to do

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so while driving great called mail one day Maybe she'll

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grow up somehow move on from the devastation she's caused

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and have a family of her own Hopefully her kids

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can learn from her mistakes and exhibit a sense of

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responsibility to their mother into the rest of their family

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and hopefully they'll learn to pull over before making that 00:03:50.943 --> [endTime] phone call

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