Young Mr Ball is chafing for his independence.
Mum holds his ATM card and the passbook for his bank account.
He has yet to get paid in his new job delivering mail at a city bank. On the day his pay comes out, his mother might agree to relinquish the ATM card long enough for him to make a withdrawal.
However, she will expect a decent share of his earnings, to help her meet expenses for the next month.
Mum gives Ball B60 every work day for his food and travel expenses. She wants Ball to help her meet that cost.
The B60 she gives him for his work expenses each day is enough, but Ball is worried that after he divides up his wages to pay his mother, he will be left with little, if anything, to call his own.
‘I am in a job, and have a girlfriend. I am grown-up, but Mum persists in seeing me as a child. I would like to start saving money, so we can one day rent a place of our own – a room in a dormitory, perhaps, closer to my work,’ he said.
I offered to talk to Mum on Ball’s behalf, but he has asked me to say nothing.
We will wait to see what happens on pay day. If he is willing to work, Mum should be willing to trust her son enough to return his ATM card – even if he does end up spending the money on the wrong things, at least at first.
‘A mother can’t protect her son forever,’ he said.
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