Rhetorical Question
So I know this family whose father-figure delights in all things technical and gadgety. They even have a speech-enabled television controller that the wife and children have never managed to figure out. No matter how many times the mother talks, cajoles, yells 'the weather network' she gets porn. They do not own but are considering an independent vacuum cleaning system that wanders around the floor, unaided by humans, sucking up things like cat hair all day long. You get the idea.
Here is the dilemma. This family, rhetorically speaking, is considering an x-box 360 for Christmas from Santa. Scratch that – at a total of $600 Cdn. the wife is not considering this in any way but the father has already put a pre-order down payment on it.
The kids are young in said rhetorical family: seven, four and two. In the mothers lowly opinion spending that kind of money on a gift for children that rivets them to the television for hours is not only a waste of money but irresponsible as a parent. The father figure feels differently.
I think the father figure – if he were to exist in the non-rhetorical world – wants the x-box for himself and is going to have a canary if the youngest of the group picks up the electronic idiot box and drops it once or twice, as two year olds are prone to do.
Any thoughts out there?
Here is the dilemma. This family, rhetorically speaking, is considering an x-box 360 for Christmas from Santa. Scratch that – at a total of $600 Cdn. the wife is not considering this in any way but the father has already put a pre-order down payment on it.
The kids are young in said rhetorical family: seven, four and two. In the mothers lowly opinion spending that kind of money on a gift for children that rivets them to the television for hours is not only a waste of money but irresponsible as a parent. The father figure feels differently.
I think the father figure – if he were to exist in the non-rhetorical world – wants the x-box for himself and is going to have a canary if the youngest of the group picks up the electronic idiot box and drops it once or twice, as two year olds are prone to do.
Any thoughts out there?
posted by y-vonne at 9:22 AM
3 Comments:
I agree 100% with your last paragragh...and just like Dale says...2 more years and all should be fine...in theroy of course since this a rhetorical story
Hypothetically speaking of course… One of the key differences between the X-Box and the 360 is the 360 comes with wireless controllers. No wires = no yanking the machine of the shelf, no pulling the machine across the floor, no standing on the box.
With wireless controllers one good keep the base unit safely ensconced in the multimedia cabinet away from the prying hands of this imaginary 2 year old.
The downside is that both the x-box and the 360 use CDs instead of cartridges. But since we are talking in the rhetorical, we know that this rhetorical family, including the rhetorical MOTHER will have the fine motor control skills to actually put the games CDs and DVDs back in the containers after they are done with them.
I think the mother of said-family is very smart and forward-thinking, indeed.
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