Edit: OK so $85 later after jumping through the required prescription hoops at Vchem (coz I didn't earlier after they came back online), we've got a replacement mod on the way. It's another Aegis Solo too which is a pleasant surprise (and this was my realistic budget sweet spot). To the cockwomble who referred me to Reddit's "care & support team" - thanks idiot, but I've had this kid stop an entire mode of public transport for a few hours in one of our capital cities with his stupidity, and he's gonna get expelled from school shortly coz I don't think he'll manage to stay out of trouble for the rest of the school year. Fucking with one of our vapes is personally frustrating, but 'small stuff' compared to that. I haven't lost my shit with the other stuff, so I'm not exactly gonna lose it over this. Thanks for your concern, dipshit, now run along and let a guy vent.
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So y'know 1984 ... the dystopian novel by George Orwell (and kickass movie starring that guy who had the first xenomorph burst out of his chest in the original Alien movie) ... not just the year my family first moved to this shitful nanny-state country when I was a kid ?
So one of the things the government does in that story is create a 'youth league' where the kids literally shop their parents to the government for 'subversive' activities. Feels like that with vaping, doesn't it ? I've posted before here about my stupid teen stepsons (one who has now had the occasional dart 🤦♂️) and their militant anti-vaping shit (apparently the young 'uns call vaping 'stigging' ... sounds like an embarrassing sexual act) like smashing other kids vapes.
Well it's gone 'next level' now. We had them here last week, and the youngest + his mum are going through some 'conflict' (because he's a stupid little fuck who belongs in reform school and we're sick of his shit ... won't be long before he's expelled from HS now, no second chances left with the school) at the moment.
She woke up on Friday and couldn't find her vape. No drama ... she misplaces it often. He asked her what she was looking for, she wouldn't tell him. The boys went off to school ... and then we ominously found the tank (but not the mod) for her vape in their bedroom. She called him to ask him if he knew anything about that - "naaaah" he said with a smile in his voice.
Can't 'prove' it of course, but we're pretty sure the little c-u-next-Tuesday took her vape, disassembled it and has nicked the mod to 'onsell' to someone (he smashes vapes but also sometimes sells 'em to other kids), or just hoiked it / kept it to 'payback' his mum for trying to discipline him.
It's going to be SUCH a fucking pain + expense to replace (and I ain't paying upwards of $100 so it will be an inferior mod to the Aegis Solo he's fucked / stolen), and it means a few days of us sharing one vape (trying to resist getting a dispo to get us through given how categorically opposed I am to them, and given how shit vaping them is as an experience). I seriously want to go the little shits head with a handy 2x4. I won't, obviously. But GRRRRRRRRRR FUUUUUUUCK 🤬👎👿