"No Name" > wrote in message .com>...
> Elder parents....grrrrrrrrrrr
>
> Tonight my 72 yr old father is telling me how he needs a $500 malt machine
> to make a good malt. Now keep in mind he has never shown interest in making
> a smoothie, milkshake or mexican liquado. I told him that people that buy
> malt machines when not needed have more money than brains.
>
> My father is the type of pack rat that has one of everything but only uses
> those items once in 10 years.
>
> Don't retirees think of anything else but how to squander their hard earned
> money on junk shown on the Home Shopping Network? Especially ones that have
> a collection of tools and gadgets that they don't currently use?
>
> Can someone please answer 3 basic questions?
>
> 1) What is the big difference in a malt vs milkshake?
>
> 2) Does Dad need a malt machine, won't a blender do?
>
> 3) Can you share some basic recipes?


Andy replies:

OK, let me ask you 3 questions :


1) Whose money will be used to buy it ?

2) Will it make him happy ?

3) Why are you asking strangers about your relationship
with your father ?

What the hell....??? Give him one for Xmas.....

...... come to think of it, I would like one also......

Andy in Fink, Texas