Phones aren’t cheap these days!

And if you break someone’s phone, you should pay to have it fixed or replaced, right?

I sure think so!

And now it’s up to you to see if you think this mom is wrong for demanding that her dad pay up for breaking her daughter’s phone.

Check out what happened!

WIBTA for making my dad pay for my daughter’s phone after he broke it?

“I’m 50F and I have a 17 year old daughter. My father is 72.

My father has always struggled with being responsible with money. He’s always spent irresponsibly, never really saved, impulsive purchases and occasional gambling. He’s currently in limbo between being broke and being barely not broke.

Yesterday, me and my daughter went to visit him and my mom (71) for an early Mother’s Day celebration. My daughter spent time alternating between being on her phone and sketching while me and my parents were talking.

About two hours into the visit she asked if I had a phone charger, as it was getting low and she wanted to get some charge on it before the car ride home.

My daughter has an iPhone and I have an Android so we use different chargers, so mine didn’t fit. My dad has a very cheap and old phone, and offered his charger. My daughter explained that because it was similar style to my charger it wouldn’t work.

She left her phone on the counter and went to the living room. We spent the rest of the visit watching TV with my mom in the living room while my dad was in the kitchen.

Uh oh!

When it was time to leave my daughter went to grab her phone and started screaming and crying. I ran in and saw that my daughter’s charging port was completely destroyed, the bottom of the phone screen was cracked, and the lower phone frame was dented. My dad casually mentioned that he tried to charge her phone for her, and that it didn’t work.

I yelled at my dad, and asked how did he not realize the phone was breaking? He said he was too focused on trying to push the charger in. I told him that he’s going to pay for either a new phone or a repair, depending on which option is deemed better.

That didn’t go over very well.

He started arguing with me, saying that he can’t afford to buy an iPhone, and that my daughter can go without a phone for a while. I argued back that my daughter does need her phone for communication with friends and family and also for safety (we track each other on Life360) and I’m not making her go without her phone because he broke it.

My parents are calling me an ******* for demanding the money from them, saying I’m taking money from poor old people (yes, they pulled that card). They’re not going to go into poverty if they pay for this.

My dad just won’t be able to gamble. They always pay their bills and have food, but don’t have much leftover afterwards. My dad usually always blows the leftover money immediately.

My brother and sister are saying I should just pay for the phone myself, and that my daughter’s a spoiled brat for throwing a “tantrum” over not having her phone 24/7.

Am I really that much of an ******* for demanding that he pay for a phone he broke?”

Check out what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person said he’s NTA.

Another reader agreed.

This individual shared their thoughts.

Another reader had a lot to say.

And this person weighed in.

You break it, you buy it!

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