Sometimes — you shouldn’t mess with a good thing.

What would you do if your dad wanted you to get your own cell phone plan instead of being part of the family plan? Would you do it, or would you argue that the family plan saves everyone money?

See how one Redditor’s father ends up ultimately regretting his snarky behavior when it costs him a pretty penny.

Read more below to see what goes down.

Phoney Business

Background: I was on a family phone plan with my folks well into my adult years.

My dad liked to take the lion’s share of the data plan and would send out a passive aggressive “oink oink goes the pig” if anyone but him was using too much data.

The rest of us had to connect to WiFi whenever possible.

We all had better had a good reason if we got close to using up a quarter of the shared data plan (4 people on the plan and split 4 ways, but he liked to take his half out of the middle).

Funny enough, the family split this plan equally.

The four of us paid into the plan each month and, in theory, it was cheaper than an individual plan.

Story: For a birthday, he announced that I was getting kicked off the family plan because I needed to “be a man” or some other grown-up nonsense. I think he may have mentioned something about how he hated that my grown relatives were doing something similar and needed to grow up.

The details are fuzzy but this wasn’t the first time, nor the last that be would announce unpleasant things at birthdays and holiday family gatherings, so I took it in stride and switched to an independent phone plan.

So, the son “manned up.”

I got the cheapest, most basic data plan and it ended up being comparable to what I was paying into the family plan.

I also realized just how little I actually use my data, and the plan was actually fairly comfortable for my needs, so I stuck with it.

A year later, something shocking happened.

Fallout: A year later, he brings up the idea of getting me back into the family plan because getting me off the plan ended up not only costing the individual more money per person, the phone carrier also had a deal going on where the more people connected to one plan, the less expensive per person the overall plan would be. Some sort of wholesale or group discount or another.

I told him that I was perfectly happy with my independent phone plan [and] paying my own rate. I also reminded him that the only reason why I got off it to begin with was because he didn’t think I was being a responsible grown adult.

I simply wanted to “prove to him” that I can manage all of my own bills like a “real” adult, unlike others in my family he liked to complain about.

But, this father was shameless.

He tried asking me a few more times about it throughout the months because it would be so much cheaper for him.

But I continually brought up how much he hated my relatives that “refused to grow up,” and that he wanted me to not be like them per his “gift” on my birthday.

I stuck with it because, while I could have access to more data that I “could” use, the absence of snarky texts about being a data hog was more than worth the price.

Was the father in the wrong on this one? Should the son have forgiven and jumped back on the family plan? Let’s see what Reddit has to say about all of this.

One Redditor had some wisdom…

Another had a great response lined up.

One commenter suggested rallying the troops.

And another person highlighted the father’s mistake.

This father got the karma he deserved!

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