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The conversation went almost exactly like this ...
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Teenage daughter: "Dad can I have some money to go shopping with my friends?"
Gullible dad: "What are you shopping for exactly?"
Teenage daughter: "Clothes."
Still gullible dad: "Okay, but you are buying clothes and not wasting it on rubbish. Promise?"
Teenage daughter (looking sweetly): "I promise".
Three hours later and said daughter walks in the house carrying plastic bags.
"I couldn't find any clothes Dad," she says in innocent protest.
"OK, so what did you buy?," I counter, not really wanting to know the answer.
"Some lollies, we all bought the same wig and a Pop It."
For some reason I gloss straight over the lollies and the wig ...
"A pop what?"
"A Pop It. Don't you know what Pop Its are Dad?," she says pulling out this hexagon shaped, crazy coloured looking thing.
Well, I didn't know what a Pop It was.
But as I now know and can attest, Pop Its are the latest craze intent on polluting the brains of the kids who will one day be running the country.
If you have school-aged children you probably know what a Pop It is given it's swept through our schools quicker than you can say "coronavirus".
A Pop It can best be described as rubber bubble wrap.
Like bubble wrap you can pop, constantly. Over and over again. Non stop.
So effectively, they are the new fidget spinners.
Oh yes, remember them?
What the hell ever happened to all those fidget spinners?
I swear we had 100 of them in our house at one stage, yet I'd be damned if I'd be able to find one now.
One day I swear we will all wake up and discover a new island has formed in the Pacific made entirely of abandoned fidget spinners.
It will be called Fidget Spinner Island.
It will be right next to Hacky Sack Island, Cabbage Patch Kid Atoll and and the Livestrong Bracelet Archipelago.
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Julian O'Brien
Editor of the Illawarra Mercury and former editor of The Advocate (North-West Tasmania). Journalism is simply about telling good stories well and we do so now across a broader platform than ever before. Our role as a regional masthead is to not only share the stories our readers care about but to be a passionate torch bearers for community at every opportunity. We are stronger together.
Editor of the Illawarra Mercury and former editor of The Advocate (North-West Tasmania). Journalism is simply about telling good stories well and we do so now across a broader platform than ever before. Our role as a regional masthead is to not only share the stories our readers care about but to be a passionate torch bearers for community at every opportunity. We are stronger together.
