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Greetings Fellow Holiday Shoppers,
We’re the Scoble family and we want to share our holiday wish lists with you to give you an idea of what we will be thinking of, dreaming of, looking for and lusting after during the holidays. But before we do so, I need to tell you a little story about how and why we came up with these lists.
“I found the perfect gift you can buy me.” I tell Robert excitedly as I walk in through the door. Robert hardly looks up from his computer. “Why do I need to buy you a gift again?” He grumbles.
“Ummm, you never bought me a gift when Milan was born. In fact, I bought you a gift. I recall a certain camera; The Canon 5D. And our 5th anniversary is coming up in November. And don’t forget the holidays. You can combine all these wonderful occasions and buy me one special gift for the very low price of $2,599.99. I saw it at Costco. It’s a steal.” I can hardly contain my excitement. “I’ll give you a hint. I have always wanted this. I can’t believe I saw it at Costco. You gotta be able to get this right. I always talk about wanting one of these. Guess what it is?”
“First of all,” Robert says finally looking up, “Milan is my gift to you.” He smiles. “And second of all you are Iranian. You don’t celebrate Christmas.” His smile broadens. “As for our anniversary, OK, you got me there. I bet it is jewelry that you want. And I bet it costs a lot more than you are telling me. You are gonna buy it and not tell me how much it really costs. I know all about your secret shopping tricks, woman. I just let you get away with it because if I don’t, you actually would want me to guess what you want and get it for you. We all know I’m gonna be wrong and you are gonna return it and buy what it is that you really want. So take the credit cards; don’t tell me how much you spend and let me read my feeds in peace. Thank you very much.” He looks down at his computer again.
I am not going to let him get away with this so I continue, “First of all, I was the one who went through nine months of pregnancy and 29 hours of labor to bring Milan to the world. So he is not exactly the product of your hard labor exclusively. And as far as Iranians not celebrating Christmas, well Americans don’t celebrate Norouz, the Persian New Year, either. But every spring solstice, when my Mom gives you a crisp $50 bill, I don’t see you turning it down. And for your information what I want is not jewelry and it’s something I have always wanted. You ought to be able to guess this one.
I bet you our thirteen year old son, Patrick, can say right away what it is that I have always wanted.” I look at Patrick who has been sitting quietly next to his dad on the couch playing World of Warcraft, but listening to our conversation as background filler. “OK Patrick go ahead and tell your dad what it is that I have always wanted” I exclaim. Patrick looks at me, then at his dad and shrugs. “That’s easy,” he says. “It’s the Ms. Pac-Man arcade game.” I clap my hands happily. “Exactly!”
Robert looks sideways at Patrick and asks with some disbelief, “How did you know?” Patrick shrugs again and says matter of factly, “That’s easy, dude. I listen to her.” For that he gets an approving smile from me and an elbow nudged in his side from his dad. “There goes your Christmas gift Mr. know it all” his dad tells him.
“Speaking of which,” I tell Patrick, “you need to give us a list of things you want for the holidays. We can get some of the stuff and then tell your grandparents and uncles as well when they ask for suggestions.” That gets Patrick’s attention away from his game and he starts wondering about his list. He starts to tell me what he wants, but I ask him to type me a list and he agrees.
“And as for you,” I tell Robert, “You should write a list too. You hate
