I wanted a pet to keep me company at school. So a friend of mine gave me two little white mice, both females. Lavern and shirley. I began to notice that lavern kept getting fatter and fatter and one day i looked in to the cage and there were 8 little pink babies in there with my other two mice. Apparently when she bought them the one was pregnant. I had to give the one away b/c she was attacking the babies, so i found her a home.
I still now had 9 mice instead of 2. Christmas break was coming upon us fast and i knew i wouldn't be allowed to take them home seeing as my mom was terrified. So I asked around and one day i was telling one of my friends...we'll call her Carol about the mice and the fact that i have yet to find someone to take them over break, she volunteered. I was so excited. I told her everything she would need to know and i said that when they turned 5 weeks old (which was a week before we came back to school) that they had to be separated by sexes. she said ok and i said that when the time comes if she would go to wal mart and buy another inexpensive cage like the one i had that i would pay her back for it. And i told her that mice food is like 89 cents a pound at pet stores get what they needed and i would pay her back, but i also added, just don't spend alot b/c i am broke and my parents don't have the money either. Well when we got back from break i called to see if i could pick them up and she said sure and when i walked over to her appartment i saw a 15 or 20 gallon glass tank sitting in her living room and she said will food and the tank i owed her roughly 50 bucks...she said it was more but she would round it to 50 to be nice. I was really upset. first b/c the cage was huge and expensive and i never expected her to buy something like that, second instead of buying the cheap food she bought them food that was 6 dollars a bag and she claims that they ate 3 bags of it but i have feed them on the same half of a bag that she gave me a month ago...and i am just now in need of buying more food and that was the same length of time as break! Now she and i aren't talking and she is demanding her money and i refuse to pay it. I am going to ask her first to see the reciepts and then if it adds up to 50 bucks i need to know if the verbal agreement i had with her not to spend alot and to buy the most inexpensive stuff possible covers me from having to pay that extravagent cost, remember i am a college student, 50 dollars is alot of money. Do i really owe her that much?
I still now had 9 mice instead of 2. Christmas break was coming upon us fast and i knew i wouldn't be allowed to take them home seeing as my mom was terrified. So I asked around and one day i was telling one of my friends...we'll call her Carol about the mice and the fact that i have yet to find someone to take them over break, she volunteered. I was so excited. I told her everything she would need to know and i said that when they turned 5 weeks old (which was a week before we came back to school) that they had to be separated by sexes. she said ok and i said that when the time comes if she would go to wal mart and buy another inexpensive cage like the one i had that i would pay her back for it. And i told her that mice food is like 89 cents a pound at pet stores get what they needed and i would pay her back, but i also added, just don't spend alot b/c i am broke and my parents don't have the money either. Well when we got back from break i called to see if i could pick them up and she said sure and when i walked over to her appartment i saw a 15 or 20 gallon glass tank sitting in her living room and she said will food and the tank i owed her roughly 50 bucks...she said it was more but she would round it to 50 to be nice. I was really upset. first b/c the cage was huge and expensive and i never expected her to buy something like that, second instead of buying the cheap food she bought them food that was 6 dollars a bag and she claims that they ate 3 bags of it but i have feed them on the same half of a bag that she gave me a month ago...and i am just now in need of buying more food and that was the same length of time as break! Now she and i aren't talking and she is demanding her money and i refuse to pay it. I am going to ask her first to see the reciepts and then if it adds up to 50 bucks i need to know if the verbal agreement i had with her not to spend alot and to buy the most inexpensive stuff possible covers me from having to pay that extravagent cost, remember i am a college student, 50 dollars is alot of money. Do i really owe her that much?
