Fathers Day is celebrated this Sunday in Australia. Are you all set?
The advertisers have everything worked out for us. The catalogues are building up in our letterbox – and the newspapers and the TV keep telling us what to buy for dad.
I’ve been rather amazed at some of the suggestions. I was driving past a health club that suggested that dad might like you to buy him a membership. I saw a bike shop sign suggesting that dad should have a new bike. The catalogues I’ve been reading tell me that a rather expensive piece of electronic gadgetry would tell dad that you love him. The suggestions just go on and on and keep getting more and more expensive.
I want to know where the kids are getting the money to buy all this stuff for dad. Are they working as IT experts after school? I happen to know that Emily and James don’t get that much pocket money.
I think we’ve lost the plot. I’ll be more than happy with a box of chockies – a big hug from Emily and one of James’s famous neck squeezes.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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I got 10 cataalogues today and the only one I will browse thru is the IKEA catalogue…Yes I counted them – By the way IT experts can’t afford Fathers Day either – if they are Dads too! 🙂
It’s just as bad here in the states. Of course, just about every holiday is that way now. And with teaching high school, Valentines day is the one that amazes me. Where are these teens getting the kind of money needed to buy the stuff I see given as gifts… If there is some place out there hiring kids out as IT experts, where can I sign mine up?