Parents Angry mom bills 'unappreciative son' $39K for things he takes for granted 
 
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 A 23-year-old Toronto student living at home just got schooled about failing to give his mother the respect she deserves. 
 
 After the two got into an argument that both sides agreed stemmed from a misunderstanding, the mother drew up a $39,254 bill, charging him for just a fraction of the ways she has supported her son since he moved back home 13 months ago. 
 
 Among the more notable expenses on the bill: a $1,000 fee for “being an a**hole and not appreciative of your mother’s support financially or otherwise.” 
 
 The stunt worked. The son owned up to his poor behavior and apologized. 
 
 And then he immediately shared his mom’s note on Reddit. 
 
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 “I just looked at it and thought, ‘This is golden Reddit material,’” the young man, who goes by “Chalipo” on the platform, said in a phone interview with TODAY.com. “I thought it was one of those things that everyone would appreciate and get a good laugh out of it. I expected a couple of witty comments but I didn’t know that it would make international headlines.” 
 
 The post went viral, with most people finding the note humorous and sympathizing with Chalipo’s mom. 
 
 “It was a joke," she said. "It was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, although obviously I was a little annoyed by him, as you can see with that thousand dollar itemized ‘unappreciative’ comment. But he was never expected to pay it. It was really just to prove a point and to make him wake up.” 
 
 But some Reddit users criticized the way she went about making her point, or mistook her for being serious. That’s why neither she nor her son wanted their real names used. 
 
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 The argument that ultimately led to the invoice began over an application Chalipo’s mom was trying to fill out over the phone for a plan to help cover medication costs for Chalipo's brother. Because the plan only provides coverage for an entire household, Chalipo’s mother needed information from her older son, who refused to provide it. Both he and his mother admit he didn’t understand the circumstances at the time. 
 
 “To me, I thought I was arguing about giving her my personal information to a stranger over the phone, when I knew there were scams going on out there,” Chalipo said. “I didn’t have all the facts.” 
 
 And yes, both agreed that Chalipo acted, indeed, like a … jerk. 
 
 “I can see why she thought I was being selfish, but my motives weren’t bad,” he said. 
 
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 In addition to being charged for being unappreciative, Chalipo’s mom also billed her son $1,037 for his portion of the electricity bill, $23,550 for five years of tuition and $5,726 for health care premiums. She clarified that the $600 she charged him for “wedding, xmas gifts, valentines” was not for anything she bought him but, instead, money she gave so that he could buy presents for others, including a Valentine’s Day gift for his girlfriend. 
 
 "She was being generous so I could be generous," Chalipo agreed. 
 
 Chalipo has lived with his mom for most of his life but moved in with his father about three years ago. He moved back in with his mother 13 months ago and currently works part time and is a full-time student. He plans to graduate soon with a radio broadcast degree and is saving up to move into his own place with his girlfriend. 
 
 “He’s a good kid. He means well,” his mother said. 
 
 Chalipo said he eventually plans to repay his mom, hopefully in more ways than one. 
 
 “My mom will get old one day and I’ll take care of her and spend years and years repaying her, even changing her diapers,” he said. 
 
 His mother wasn't sure how to respond to the gesture. 
 
 “That’s a really morbid thought," she said, "but thanks." 
 
 Follow TODAY.com writer Eun Kyung Kim on Twitter. ||||| After an argument, one fed-up mother in Brampton, Toronto, decided to give her 23-year-old son who lives at home a wake-up call by invoicing him for more than $39,000. 
 
 The son, known on Reddit as “Chalipo,” posted the invoice to the site on March 2, and it's since gone viral. 
 
 “We got into a discussion that it doesn’t cost a lot for him to live here,” Chalipo’s mom, 51, who asked that her name not be disclosed, told ABC News today. But her son didn't get it. So she made up a mock invoice to show how much money her son costs her. 
 
 Chalipo’s mom addressed the invoice to her “Unappreciative Son” and wrote that it was “for services delivered free of charge in the last 13 months ALONE (except for Tuition – which is 5 years).” The bill came to a grand total of $39,254.17. 
 
 Courtesy Chalipo 
 
 There were the typical charges for Internet, cable and gas. But there were also some unique charges such as “specialty meals,” “contribution towards wedding, xmas gifts, valentines” -- which she clarified was money she gave to him to buy gifts -- and a $1,000 charge for “being an a--hole and not appreciative of your mother's support.” 
 
 Chalipo, who also asked that his real name not be disclosed, said that he chuckled at the last charge. But he added that the invoice did teach him a lesson about being more appreciative of his mother. 
 
 “After a few moments of quiet reflection, I let my mom know how effective this invoice was to help me understand how much she does for me and my brother,” Chalipo said. 
 
 He added that he posted the invoice on Reddit because he knew people could get a laugh out of it, but he “had no idea it was going to make national headlines.” 
 
 But, most importantly, Chalipo wants to “embrace this situation and show my appreciation.” He said he hopes to be “successful one day to support my family and continue to do good things for my family.” 
 
 “I guess it worked,” Chalipo’s mother said. 
 
 “It helped bring us closer,” her son added. “It restored her faith in me to be a successful son.” ||||| Hell hath no fury like the mother of an entitled, lazy, narcissistic millennial. 
 
 One such mother in Toronto has taken her frustration over having to bankroll her 23-year-old son's lifestyle, along with her impressive Quickbooks skills, and used them to send him a powerful message: 
 
 Bitch better have my money! 
 
 "Mom gave me an invoice for supporting me for three months," Reddit user Chalipo wrote in a post on the subReddit /r/funny last month. "Charged me $1000 for being an unappreciative asshole." 
 
 Other charges on the list included home utilities, prescriptions, cleaning services, health insurance and "specialty meals" — all things that are often consumed by entitled, lazy, narcissistic millennials, who might still be living at home with their parents because they're burdened with too much student loan debt to be able to afford to move out. 
 
 In a new interview with TODAY, Chalipo's mom said that her invoice was just a lighthearted gag and she does not actually expect her son — who, statistically speaking, is probably making way less money than his parents did — to pay her the $39,000 she is owed. 
 
 "It was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, although obviously I was a little annoyed by him, as you can see with that thousand dollar itemized 'unappreciative' comment," she told TODAY. "But he was never expected to pay it. It was really just to prove a point and to make him wake up." 
 
 Will the wake-up call help Chalipo overcome his inherently entitled, lazy, narcissistic millennial nature and get a job, despite the dismal employment prospects facing his generation? Only time will tell. 
 
 (No, but seriously, our generation is totally screwed.) 
 
 h/t TODAY ||||| Jennifer Moss is not your typical Reddit user. Every week, the 33-year-old utility company analyst from Marietta, Ga., reads posts on the social news site Reddit to see if she can help people who say they are in need. A father says he can’t afford to take his son on a trip? She sends him gas money via Paypal. A pregnant mom says she ran out of food stamps to buy vegetables? She sends her a gift card to a produce company. “Just because I never met them, doesn’t make them any less in need,” Moss said. 
 
 Last month, nearly 170 million visitors flocked to the site, which currently boasts more than 9,600 active communities that are typically devoted to niche subjects, anything from diet and exercise to video games. And while the site has occasionally drawn attention for the wrong reasons — a spokesperson apologized in 2013 for users who falsely accused a student of plotting the Boston Marathon bombing — its most fervent participants celebrate Reddit for fostering a vibrant community. 
 
 On May 28, 2014, Kayla Davis of Columbia, S.C., posted a message on the site about her need for a kidney transplant. Since age 10, Davis had suffered from a kidney disease called glomerulonephritis, which damages the parts of the organs that filter waste and fluids from the blood. She had been on dialysis for the last three years, which always left her feeling exhausted. Playing video games like The Legend of Zelda was the only thing Davis said she could do that wouldn’t wipe her out. 
 
 Davis was looking for a live donor with an O blood type. After setting up an unsuccessful Facebook page and realizing her mom and brother weren’t good matches because they have thyroid problems and high blood pressure, respectively, Davis, a 26-year-old, turned to Reddit. “It was almost like a last resort,” she said. 
 
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 Five hours after the plea was posted, Moss posted a note of her own, saying she would call a living donor coordinator the next day and start the necessary tests to see if she was a match. They were. And Moss decided to donate her kidney. “I have something that the other person needs, and if it’s not going to hurt me, why not?” she thought. 
 
 Over the next nine months, the pair exchanged messages on Facebook three to four times times a week and found out they had more in common than a blood type. They both loved pizza, which Davis couldn’t eat when she was on dialysis. They also loved dogs, especially corgis. Moss regularly sent Davis photos of her corgi-Jack Russell terrier mix Conan, named after comedian Conan O’Brien, to keep Davis’s spirits up. 
 
 They met for the first time in March before the transplant surgery at Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta. The surgery took place on March 26. It was a success: both women were up and walking the next day. Worried that Davis would be bored or lonely when Moss was discharged first, she and her fiancé Chris Telford bought the younger woman a tablet computer so she could keep up with friends back home. 
 
 The pair are not the first organ donor and recipient to meet through social media. Last year, a 36-year-old man found a live kidney donor on the social network, and a Minnesota mother found one for her two-year-old daughter after making a Facebook page. Over the past month, Sammy Griner, an 8-year-old boy known from the Internet’s popular “Success Kid” meme, raised more than $100,000 for his dad’s kidney transplant surgery through crowdfunding. And in March, a photo of an ad on the back of a man’s pickup truck pleading for a live kidney donor for his wife went viral on Reddit, flooding the University of Colorado hospital’s voicemail with calls from potential matches. 
 
 Moss hopes the chance way she met Davis can set an example. As of April, more than 101,000 Americans were waiting for a kidney, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. “If someone can see how easy it was for me to go through this process,” Moss said, “they might look at themselves and go, ‘Well, I could do it.’” 
 
 Finally off dialysis, Davis says she wakes up before 6 each morning filled with energy. She plans on getting a driver’s license. She wants to apply to college and pursue a career in computer science. Davis continues to share her story on Reddit, posting reguarly to let fellow users know about her recovery. And in September, Davis will see Moss again. This time, they’ll meet at Moss’s wedding. 
 
 Write to Olivia B. Waxman at olivia.waxman@time.com.
– A Reddit user living in Toronto better be kissing up to his momma for quite a while: The 23-year-old student, who goes by Chalipo on Reddit, recently got into an argument with his mom about how much it had cost her to support him over the last 13 months, reports ABC News. The pair clearly disagreed, so his mom drew up an invoice—including $23,550 for college tuition, $1,200 for specialty meals, an $187.20 share of the cable bill, and $1,000 "for being an a--hole and not appreciative of your mother's support financially or otherwise"—adding up to $39,254.17 after she applied 13% tax. As Mic.com puts it, "Hell hath no fury like the mother of an entitled, lazy, narcissistic millennial." "I just looked at it and thought, 'This is golden Reddit material,'" Chalipo, who shared the invoice on the platform on March 1, tells Today.com. The post quickly went viral. "I thought it was one of those things that everyone would appreciate and get a good laugh out of it ... but I didn't know that it would make international headlines," Chalipo adds. His mom admits she never expected her son to pay the bill. "It was intended to be tongue-in-cheek, although obviously I was a little annoyed by him," she says. "It was really just to prove a point and to make him wake up." It worked. "This was a very effective parenting technique and it has helped me to realize what an entitled little s--- I have been," Chalipo writes on Reddit. He also plans to make it up to his mom eventually. "My mom will get old one day and I'll take care of her and spend years and years repaying her, even changing her diapers," Chalipo says. Mom's response: "That's a really morbid thought, but thanks." (This mom billed her son as a roommate.)