The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for December 15, 2021

Tis the season to become broke.

Coal is cheaper

$149.00 with automatic monthly renewal.

Yikes!

Here’s a suggestion Brutus, buy a set of batteries, a nice card and write in it – “Toy not included.”

/SHMIRK/

How about just one wheel?

Maybe you can afford that Christmas tree, Brutus.

If you do buy (or lease) that Big Bopper remote control monster truck be sure to get the one decorated with Chantilly Lace.

Get him underwear instead.

My parents were very frugal. One Christmas, they were traveling, my older sister cared for me and she spent a small fortune on me. I still remember my seventh Christmas and her gifts; a chemistry set, a microscope, an erector set and a baseball glove.

Come on, Brutus! Stop being cheap! It’s Christmas!

How much for the Ritchie Valens Remore Control Monster Truck Toy?

It’s a reasonable question.

It’s the lease you can do for your boy, Brutus.

I’ve been trying to contact you about your new monster truck warranty.

what does lease mean? is the toy on a leash and still attached to the store?

Maybe get a non-battery powered truck and get one that requires his son to use some imagination. Outside. Kids these days just turn on their toys and watch them do everything. They aren’t really interacting with them.

I bought my first car in 1960 for 50 dollars. A flathead 1950 Ford convertible. Pretty as could be and sold it for $150 year later to buy a 1955 Chevy. Got my drivers license in 1962. Only had about 62 people around my neighborhood. Lonesome valley folks. Wish I had both those cars today. Those two and a 1959 Super 88 Olds are my lifetime favs and I have owned over 45 cars and trucks in my tiny life. And a few Motorcycles to boot.

Just tell Wilberforce… “But I ain’t got Noooo money honey.”

Sorry about the price. I hope he gets your money’s worth of enjoyment and not just a few minutes of pleasure. It’s only once a year though. Merry Christmas. Now let’s go get those new Diamond earrings for the wife that she wants…….

“How much to have him come in and drive it around the store until he gets bored with it?”

With the waning of your boy’s attention span, leasing might just be the best way give him that big gift. I’ve seen so many little electric cars that are now sitting out in the yard, or have been put out on the curb for trash pickup. What a waste of good money. Now, if those parents would put away that cash in a savings account for the kids first EV when they’re old enough to drive, that’s another thing.

Brutus just stunned the clerk.

Aren’t subscription toys already a thing.

$150 might get you a couple of lug nuts on the real one

The Sansoms are revealing their age with this one. For those too young to be familiar with The Big Bopper, his real name was J.P. Richardson. He became world famous with his hit ‘Chantilly Lace’ that reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1958. But he will likely be most remembered for dying in the same plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens on February 2, 1959 which was immortalized as “the day the music died” in Don McLean’s hit song ‘American Pie’.

I saw a battery-operated tank for children (to ride in!) yesterday… at the grocery store. %

It’s a good investment Brutus, Wilberforce could learn to drive a truck and drivers are in big demand. Also, it will be lot cheaper than sending him to college which in his case would be a total waste of money.

wow, for about the same price you could get a melon here in japan…

Helloooooooo, baaaaaaaby!