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Just be very very careful with how you word your incentives. My dad offered to buy me an Apple IIe if I scored a goal in my AYSO league (I was the second to the worst player). 4th game in, I did….on my own team’s goalie.. by accident….He never specified which side to score….He ended up ponying up the computer and never made any such deal with me again….
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OMG, I’m literally LOL reading this, picturing what your dad’s face look like at the moment.[/quote]
FLU: Yup. Been there, done that. My dad had a deal with me throughout high school that whatever amount I put into savings from summer job(s), he would match, dollar for dollar, at the end of summer.
I wound up working on a friend’s dad’s tuna boat over a summer and was making $18/hr + a bonus. I wound up banking damn near $5k (and I still had a blowout summer in terms of partying) and the look on his face was priceless when I showed him my savings account balance at the end of summer.
He was good to his word, though, and wrote me a check. Wrote me a check with his teeth gritted, I should say.
