When we went on vacation, we did not activate international calling on our cell phones, and we did not take our laptop computer with us.
So Media Girl was without her lifelines.
Needing something else to fill in the hours and hours of thus vacant time, Media Girl became creative and lined up babysitting jobs with some of the other families in our time share hotel.
I was impressed. Not only was Media Girl handling withdraw extremely well, she was showing maturity - and making money to boot. I was prepared to give her a hearty congratulations at the end of a media free week.
I woke early on the morning following Media Girl's first babysitting gig and was surprised to find Media Girl was already gone from the apartment.
Not being particularly concerned, I headed downstairs for my walk on the beach - and found Media Girl in the lobby.
She had used her babysitting earnings to purchase a phone card and was standing at the pay phone talking to friends back in the states - at the rate of twenty five cents a minute.
Media Girl had needed a communication fix so bad that she gone back to the Flinstone era - talking on a land line attached to a wall.
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