28-year-old stops paying Dad's electric bill after he keeps hanging up the phone on her mid-sentence: 'He's going to have to figure it out himself'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 9, 2025 2:00 PM EST
A young woman types on her phone while sitting in front of her open laptop.

This daughter needed to show her father some tough love to teach him a lesson.

There comes a point in one's adult life when the roles between parent and child begin to change. Sure, your parents will always be the folks who raised you, but it's a curious phenomenon when they start to depend on you for things. No, we're not just talking about physical health as they get older. We're talking about something much more innocuous, yet it's still occasionally frustrating. We're about the relationship between your parents and technology.

This 28-year-old daughter paid her dad's monthly electronic bill for him because, well, he wasn't exactly skilled when it came to making online payments. Despite numerous attempts to show her father how it's done, he became so reliant on her for help that it was just easier for the author to take on that responsibility. 

However, her father's annoying habit of hanging up the phone mid-conversation whenever he decided things were finished got so bad that it interfered with her ability to pay for him. Keep scrolling below to find out what happened when her dad's electricity was compromised as a result.

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  • Let this story serve as a potent reminder to listen to your family members and let them finish their points, regardless of what role you identify most with in this scenario. Otherwise, you don't know how not listening might backfire down the road. In this case, it resulted in someone getting their lights turned off.

  • "My father keeps hanging up the phone while I’m still talking. So I decided not to call him back and that’s why his house lost electricity for a while."

    I just read a post about someone's dad who never hangs up the phone himself. My dad's the exact opposite and it reminded me of an incident that happened a few weeks ago
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  • My dad disconnects the call once he's gotten what he wants out of it. No goodbye, no "I'm hanging up now", no "anything else?" It drives crazy. me bat
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  • I take care of the utilities at his house, ie I pay his electric and phone bills. A few weeks ago, it was time to pay the electricity bill, but I was having bank issues and the payment wasn't going through.
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  • I called him to let him know this issue and to ask if he would mind paying the bill himself this time as it was the last day for payment.
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  • I am not exaggerating when I say I had to call him SIX times to get just this one point across, because he kept hanging up thinking I was done speaking. I almost threw my phone at the wall, it was so frustrating!!
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  • I think all he got from my call was: today is the last day to pay the bill. And he assumed that I was calling to tell him that I had paid it. I was so frustrated at that point that I didn't call back. If he doesn't want to listen to what I have to say, he may as well bear the consequences of it.
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  • Two weeks later, the electricity connection to his house got disconnected. He called me up shouting about unpaid bills. I calmly told him that I had called him about it and since he kept disconnecting the numerous calls I placed, I assumed he had it handled.
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  • Anyways, it's almost festival season in my country and I'm so busy that I won't be able to sort out his issues for at least another two weeks. He's going to have to figure it out himself. Have fun taking multiple trips to the government run electricity board office, dad.
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  • Edit: to clarify a few things and to stop dms. My culture is Indian. The festival season I spoke of is Diwali. I own a small business which is in high demand during Diwali and I'm going to be working 10+ hours a day for the next 14 days. Weekends included. I am not off partying in music festivals as many of you seem to think.
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  • I did not text him because he does not read texts. If he gets a text, he will call that person. And then hang up on them too.
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  • It's true that two weeks is not enough time for anyone to cut off electricity. But my dad's connection was already on notice due to late payments for more than a year and he already had the connection disconnected once. It's why I had taken over the payments since the past 3 months.
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  • I did not leave my dad with no electricity for two weeks, because he did go to the office and electricity will be restored by tomorrow.
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  • About my dad being an or people saying I need to go NC with him and calling me a doormat: Yes, the Indian culture demands a certain level of respect for your elders. But it's not all encompassing. My respect for my dad stems from my generally good relationship with him. There's one
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  • or two things that he's really bad at. That does not mean he's an entirely bad person. I showcased one of his bad qualities in this post, but he has numerous good qualities as well.
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  • I pay his bills because I want to, not because he needs me to or he asked me for help. He's perfectly capable of it financially. No person is perfect, but I try not to make a habit of vilifying anyone for a few flaws, especially not my own dad, who is probably very proud to have me as his daughter.
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  • I will take him to visit a doctor in two weeks' time to check for neurological diseases like dementia. Thanks for the tip.
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  • Zoreb1 1 day ago Tell him the penalty for his is that he's responsible for his electric for eternity.
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  • pritachi OP 1 day ago Ah. Would that I could. But due to the culture I was raised in, this thought makes me uncomfortable.
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  • Honestly, just getting this small piece of rebellious revenge was really satisfying.
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  • And the fact that he cannot possibly expect me to fix this for him makes it even sweeter. The timing of this honestly could not have been better.
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  • Any other time of the year, and it would have been me who would have worked to get the connection
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  • back. And I would have done it happily too, just happy to have inconvenienced him for a short while.
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  • CoderJoe1 1 day ago Why didn't you hang up on him when he called you? I would've said, "Oh, that's because you..." <click>
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