I have to admit it
My kids are spoilt. Spoilt rotten in fact in a - give you loads of things to shut up and let me get on with my wine "hobby" - sort of way.

They've had a live in Nanny, and a live out Nanny, various full time nurseries, music lessons, gymnastics, dance, ballet. Both could swim before they were 5. They have pizza every friday, chinese at the weekend. Birthday bashes since the year dot have had magicians, discos, clowns - they named it. They are in Prep and pre-Prep schools, delivered each day in the best motors money can buy. It's embarasing at christmas and birthday time, quite frankly. They've got all those stupid plastic japanese gonks, as well as bunk beds!Spoilt rotten they are, but I have a remedy.

For sometime now a few friends and myself in financial circles have been engineering a little surprise. I introduced the concept of the "credit crunch" to them last week over buttered fag and marmalade.

Hopefully the fact that pater is now unemployed and the bentley's with the balifs, and they'll have to make do with walking to the local Nelson Mandela Primary School, tap water sandwiches for lunch and an orange for christmas, this will finally give us parents the reason to say NO, you can't have my credit card to order wiggly worms III for nintendo DS off amazon, you've had 15 playstation games arrive in the last ten days, least not wiggly worms VI VII and VIII. Serves the spoilt buggers right.

Mind you as I'm a spoilt bastard m'self, and quite good at it, even if I say so myself, it's looking like the prols will bail us out through their pension funds without even knowing it. After all that Gordon Oik is a jolly decent chap. He'll do anything to be accepted. Even shit on his socialist pals and most of the rest of the worlds population to keep me in gainful employment.

EDIT: Seriously times are hard. We've had to downgrade to Kitzburg this christmas and lay a couple of the stable boys off.
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 16:42, Reply)