Christmas Gift Negotiation

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, it's a Mojo in the morning show. So
Christmas is uh, just around the corner, and Shannon's kids
have a wish list that has got Shannon thinking, okay,
plan B because some things on that list you're not
thinking about getting them.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh, and I think there's no thinking. It's it's a
hard no, it's a big no, all caps no. So
Lucy is eleven, and Anna she has wanted a phone
for since she was born. Basically, she came out of
me saying iPhone, and she is not. That's like, she's

(00:37):
not getting her phone, and so I anybody who asks her,
that's like the number one thing that she says. And
so I had to sit her down the other day
and say, look, Dad and I talked about this. We
are on the same page, and I don't want you
to think that we keep saying no in order to
surprise you on Christmas morning. Like I am telling you
right now, there is going to be no surprise there.

(00:58):
You're not getting a phone. So then she says she
wants a puppy, which that's even I'd almost rather get
her a phone and than have another damn dog in
my house at this point.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Okay, we've got three. There's no way.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
And then we went to see Santa over the weekend
and my my eight year old Smith, Sannah was like, well,
what do you want for Christmas?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Smith?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And Smith's always like, I want everything, is what he
tells me. He's a hard one to shop for. He
pulled a dirt bike what out of somewhere, I don't know,
And I'm thinking he's not getting a dirt bike. He's
the clumsiest kid on the face of planet Earth.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
No way.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
So all of the things that are the number one
items on their lists or knows this year.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
And I know that there are there are a lot
of parents.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
In the same boat of like the big thing on
your child Christmas list is just it's not It's not happening.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Is it the is it the money? Is it the
the danger of both things the phone and the and
the dirt bike or both? Or what is it is?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yeah? I mean obviously the phone.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
I just I'm trying to put that off for as
long as I possibly can. And the dirt bike, there
is no way that that is happening for Aristmas.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
It might be fired to get him dirt bike. Lesson,
I was singing the same thing he.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Ain't got to go fully dirt bike.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
So I gotta tell you something his birthdays in June,
if you get something like because then he was like, well,
what about an electric bike? I said, that's a really
cool idea. However, it's some you wouldn't even be able
to ride it until why don't you ask for that
for your birthday in the summer?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
And then it is cool when you get a bike
at Christmas time and you can't really ride bikes.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Last year, that's what I got him because the kid
has grown so much he needed a new bike.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
And I thought, okay, I.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Got I got questions. And by the way, yes, please
call and tell us what's on your kid's list that
they ain't getting. That's Santa. I ain't bringing to that
eight four four Mojoe live. What I know that you
are in agreement on the phone with their father. What
about on the dirt bikes? What if their father gets
them the dirt bike? Would you be.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
God bless them?

Speaker 5 (02:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Really? So? Is it? Is it not the danger of
the dirt bike or is it just that you don't
want to buy him the for me?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It is for me. I don't think it's a good idea.
For him eight years old. I could you know, that's
just my opinion. Maybe Santa or his dad will get
him an electric bike, which I actually love that idea.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
But we got Luke at dirt bike I think at
that same age.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Real.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, but did you want to do it or did
Chelsea want to do it? Actually, be honest with you,
it was it was Chelsea that wanted it. Chelsea wanted
it for him or thought that he was okay to
have it, And I got to find I do have
pictures somewhere.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Did you have reservations when she brought it up? Or
were you even full agreement? You know what I talked
about it. I think on the radio at the time
that I didn't know if he was old enough. And
then I got phone calls from every you know, person
that lives in Lake Oreon or Oxford that live out
like in the rural areas of I was.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
Going to say, where's Luke riding that?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
In West Bloomfield. You can ride it on our street
and you're familiar.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And I know Smith would break both arms the first
day he wrote it. And also I am a nervous,
nelly mom and I would be an anxious mess if
I knew he was out on a dirt bike.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
My favorite, My favorite though, was when he drove through
our front trees with the thing and he.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Like, are you looking for a video of it?

Speaker 1 (04:22):
I'm looking for I know I have the video of
the thing, like literally of him driving through our trees,
which was pretty crazy.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
Can I just say on the Lucy know, I think
it's so awesome that you set that expectation for her
because I was the kid who was who would ask
for things. My parents would say no, and then I
would be so excited on Christmas. I'm like, they're gonna
surprise me with it. No, they didn't surprise me with it.
So it's I think it's a good idea that you
sat her down and you were like.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's not happening.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, we're not trying to surprise you.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I remember, though, when I was a kid and there
were a bunch of things obviously that I always wanted.
I think I wanted like a dirt bike or whatever
when I was a kid, and I remember thinking, Sanna's
definitely bringing it, even though my parents are saying this,
Santa is bringing it, and that fat ass didn't bring it.

Speaker 6 (05:06):
I wanted an iPod and I got an m P
three player knockoff.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
I was like, dang it.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
You remember that, Remember when, remember when you were your
parents would buy you the knockoffs of things, and every
one of your friends would have the real version of
it and call that a dupe.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Nowadays can be a great thing.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
That is a total dupe. What's up, Nicole? How you doing?

Speaker 5 (05:29):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (05:30):
I was just saying, if Shannon wants to get her
son a dirt bike, my my husband welded on training
wheels on my son's first dirt bike. Oh okay, so
it couldn't fall over, all right? Well, say weld on.
I could see Shannon making West go out there and
would be like, what the f am I doing?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
It seems to be well was he really has done everything?
He has trusted me, he has done everything.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's crazy. All right, Well, you know what, thank you
for the the option. She's shaking her head. What's up, Amber?
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (06:02):
How are you? We're good? What's going on? What's what's
on the list this year?

Speaker 5 (06:07):
So her first item on this list?

Speaker 1 (06:10):
I don't know if you've heard of the Catside group.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
It's a singing girl band.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah. They have a light stick,
this thing that you literally press a button and it
spins in at lights. It is seventy dollars. I was like,
you're absolutely out.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
Of your mind.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
No, you buy that yourself.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I'm not buying this.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
She's thirteen years old.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Also, you just don't want it in your house.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
No, what is she going to.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Do with it?

Speaker 6 (06:35):
You know? She she went to five below and bought
a picture framed cat stand that has a little potholder
next to.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
It to put the light stick in. I go, what
are we doing? What are we that? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (06:50):
She really is, And I'm.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Like, I just it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
I'm not doing this.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
My favorite is when the kids want things that are allowed,
like they you know, and grandma and grandpa go out
and buy those things. Yeah, they're they're the ones grabbing ose.
What's up, Anaya Hi?

Speaker 5 (07:08):
It's it's Anya Anya.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well there you go. I think. I don't think I
ever get anayas or Anya's right, so I just do
it the opposite. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (07:20):
All right? So my four year olds, she's gonna be
five in January, is asking for a real live unicorn.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
You gotta get that. See, those are good, those are
good gifts because the the fact that you know, you
can get away with saying, you know, here's a stuffed animal,
you know what I mean, like one of those type
of things. But the problem is when when a realistic
opportunity is there, like the phone option, the dirt bike option.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, I am the grange.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, are there any parents that are getting their kids
live animals? You have to call us up because I
think you're crazy when you do that. What's up, Lisa?
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Hi?

Speaker 6 (08:00):
So ironically, you know, I got my kids when they
were younger a mini dirt bike and they were right
at my in laws and it was totally fine there.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
But the e bike scare the crap on of me.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Oh kids in suburbia, they're driving all over the place
like run, you know, and there's been some accidents with them.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
So e bike is.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
My hard no for my year old.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
E bikes are crazy bike.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
For the first time over the summer, it was so
fun and fast fun.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
If you talked to Michigan Orthopedic thirty per hour, you
should see how many people are e bike injuries? Really
that Oh gosh, there's a ton of people and it's
usually grown ass adults and it's moms usually because they
go I want a knee bike and they get on
a knee bike and they end up separating their shoulder
or something like that. What did your daughter ask for sure, Lisa?

Speaker 5 (08:49):
Oh, she egged. She did an a move on cart and
she put a pair of seventeen dollars socks in her card.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh okay, what are you like?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
I could get a pack of nine.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Yeah for that, Like, I'm not buying a pair of
seventeen dollars spots.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
What's the difference between the seventeen dollars socks and the
is it a name brand on it? I don't know.
They're like long and they go upper cast, they gray.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
I don't know what it is about them.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Because I was the kid that always wore the knockoff
versions because I was fat. It wasn't so much that
my parents didn't have the ability to afford it. It
was if I was the one that had to go
get the pants. The pants versions that I got weren't
like available, so to speak. You know, So I my
version was sears. We used to have to go to

(09:39):
and the husky section. Remember how you talk about it?
Do they still do they still have your at JC
Penny last night, do they have the husky section?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I was in the junior section by the jingle ball
stuff I was in I didn't see.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
But I was in the grown man section. When I
was a little kid, there were no juniors for me.
I'm shopping where the construction workers are. What's up, Leonard?
How you doing?

Speaker 5 (10:00):
Hey? My son? We got him a quad first, and
he was like seven or eight, and then now he
he has a dirt bike one ten behind at one ten,
and before that he was at the fifty. So we
just kind of worked him up gradually.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
So, Leonard, do you think that Smith who's eight years
old could handle that, you know, something like this?

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Well, a quad, he got four tires. He can't really fall.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
Can I'm telling you, yes you can.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
I've seen a grown ass woman and can't coom fall off.

Speaker 5 (10:40):
So well, we got them this quack. He hit the
turn first time a little too fast, got it up
on two wheels on the FID. He never did it again.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
That is true like that, that is true. Once you
wipe out once, Yeah, you're not going that fast anymore.
Sometimes I think what you need to do, though, is
I think you need to like rent one. I'll never
forget taking Luke to go buy this little motorcycle thing.
And we walked into the the what the hell was it?
It was like off of Telegraph Road. It was like

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a Honda dealership or Kalasaki dealership or something. And I
go in there and I'm like looking at the bikes
that are like my type of bikes, and I'm looking, wait,
father and son, dad and son type thing. You know,
we could be like paunching John from Chips, you know
what I mean, Like riding our bikes together is a
and I remember looking going and that didn't happen, not

(11:32):
at all. He ended up getting it. Christina, what do
you think is going to be the thing that your
kid's not getting for Christmas this year?

Speaker 5 (11:40):
Oh, she's definitely not getting an iPad.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Oh no, not even a mini huh No.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
She already has like an iPhone, a laptop, yeah, all
the things. And she doesn't even want the any She
wants the full version, the newest one.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's and that's the thing. If you don't get them
what they want, then they don't want to use it
because they feel like they can't bring it out in
front of their friends and show off in front of them.
Christine or Kristin, what is it that your daughter wants?

Speaker 5 (12:08):
Oh, my gosh, twelve hundred dollars Everyana Grande ticket.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Oh whoa man. I was in the cube forever to
try to get them, like from the pre sale and
they and I got kicked out after two and a
half hours of being in there, so I couldn't get
them for like regular price.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
She's like, please, please please.

Speaker 5 (12:25):
I'm like, honey, it's not happening.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Wow. That's yeah, that's a big expensive gift. Absolutely. Uh, Lena,
what's up? How you doing?

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Hey, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
How are you exparning?

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Good? We're talking about kids wanting animals? You had the
story for us.

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yeah. So growing up, my dad actually got my cousin
a bird for Christmas.

Speaker 5 (12:46):
And then, you know, my dad and my.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
Uncle are very competitive, so when I turned eight years old,
my uncle.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Got me a guinea pig for Christmas just to get
my dad back to getting hurt of the bird.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Guinea pigs scare the crap out of me.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
I love when the family start doing the best battle
thing where they give the kids like a gift that
the families don't want to give, you know what I mean.
And animals are bad. Those are bad deals. But thank
you for the call. We appreciate it. I think any
kind of a thing like a pig, or what are
the little rats that the kids all want, the ferrets

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and whatever, it's like anytime you do that, you know, yeah,
all it is is mom having to take care of
all that crowd, right, all right, it's Mojo in the morning.