26 December 2007 - "Asked for a Wii and didn't get one? Your parents don't love you." And other post Christmas insults.
I joked about this one the last couple of days. "If you asked for a Wii and didn't get one, your parents don't love you."
In 1996, it would have been Tickle Me Elmo.
In 1983, it would have been a Cabbage Patch Kid.
Unlike many, many children, Alex and Ben Kersting got a Nintendo Wii. I have talked about this on the show for the past few weeks. Getting one was NOT easy. My parents were going to Target and other stores every morning for over two weeks. I went to several stores around Jefferson City, Columbia and even Kansas City. We (or is that Wii) all got lucky on Sunday, December 16th, when Target had 70+ Wii's in Knoxville AND here in Jefferson City. They bought one, and we (or Wii) bought one. I briefly flirted with the idea of selling the extra one for a profit, or using it as the basis of a last minute contest prize. Instead, my brother asked us to sell it to his girlfriend's mother. There was NO way we (Wii?) would have been stuck with it anyway.
Fast forward to last Thursday. My brother and his family show up. They brought their Wii (which was acquired via eBay a couple of weeks earlier) and we used it to taunt the boys. "Yeah, the Wii is really cool." "I didn't know the Wii could do that." And so on and so on. Always capped with, "Too bad we (Wii) couldn't get one for you this year." Yup, Wii (we) were quite mean about it.
BUT, we had to be. Could not let them know that Wii (or we) had one ready to go under the tree.
Surprised? Big time.
Excitement? Well, the Wii has clocked about 12 hours already. What does that tell you. Wii Sports comes with it and Alex has been working on becoming the next Oscar De La Hoya by playing the boxing game.. (Though Alex is probably already taller and weighs more....but there are no current or recent heavyweights that I would feel comfortable using in describing him. Really, Mike Tyson? Evander Holyfield? George Foreman? Well, maybe Foreman based on our grocery bill and because both are still growing.)
Of course, there are other games they have been playing. What is nice about the Wii, that XBox 360, PlayStation 3 and other systems, is that most of the games require you to get off your butt and move. THAT is why I was motivated to get one for them.
We were at our friends house (Jon and Shelley Dougherty) about six or seven weeks ago. The boys broke a sweat playing with their NINTENDO Wii.
Of course there were lots of other good things about Christmas this year. Most on that in future updates.
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