John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Father/Daughter Expenses

“You can’t manage whay you can’t measure.”

Wrapping up our 6th annual father – daughter weekend with my 14 year old daughter, Maggie.

All 6 have been excellent but some feel a little better than the others —but we have never had a concrete, objective way to measure the success of our annual weekends.

Until now.

Late this afternoon I got a call from my credit card company for an “Alert for potential fraudulent activity with my credit card.”

They needed me to confirm three unusual purchases this weekend that deviated from my usual habits—-all involving female clothing purchases.

I finally explained “I am with my 14 year old daughter this weekend.”

Even that gentleman on the other end of the phone from what seemed like a call center in India understood. “Thank you, Mr Brown” he laughed. “I understand now!”