User blog comment:Corbierr/July Vent Blog!/@comment-4816103-20140703003656

I hate when my dad won't answer a simple question when I ask it.

Today the argument was over why a smaller job (in this case, finding a dog toy) that is more urgent should be worth more money than a larger job (cleaning the living room) that is less urgent. Well, what happened was, I need money to buy lunch at camp so I'm doing jobs and he offered me $5 to find the dog toy, I said "Okay, I'll find it tomorrow" and then my sister knew where it was and did the job for $3. The question came up when I pointed out that when I clean the living room tomorrow, I'll only be making $3.50, but yet the dog toy was worth $5.

All his reasonings were basically like, "well, I needed it more," and then he'd go on to talk about me being a procrastinator despite that having nothing to do with the question at all- because I wasn't even asking about the jobs themselves, but overall, like... "Why would you pay somone $500 to drive you across the street, but only $100 to drive you across the country, just because the second one is less urgent?"

He still never gave me a satisfactory answer and kept thinking I was complaining about the toy and living room thing, which I wasn't, I just wanted to understand the logic behind his argument if it applied to anything else. It's not about me getting the money for camp or me not doing the job tonight, I just wanted to know why he thought urgency was more important than quantity.

'''tl;dr- I hate that when I ask my dad a simple question he never gives me a real answer, or answers a question I didn't actually ask. '''