Junior takes the rock lifestyle a little too far

After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a Candian father sold the hard-to-get "Guitar Hero III" video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars. The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard. "So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn't wait to spread the jubilance to my son," the father wrote on the eBay website.
"Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what do I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the back yard with two of his delinquent friends."

The man, a school teacher, who kept his identity private, said he sold the coveted video game to punish his son and discourage him from smoking dope. The sale was a boon for the family's bank account, since the game the father purchased for 90 dollars (US) was finally sold to an Australian who plunked down 9,100 dollars for it. The naughty son, however, will not go without a present on Christmas. "I am still considering getting him a game for his Nintendo. Maybe something like Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing with the Stars ... I know he will just love them," the father said, tongue-in-cheek.

Last week Nathalie and I were out walking and we were discussing how lucky she is, in that most things she has wanted in life she has been lucky to get - even if it's meant something else has been sacrificed. Well as with most things in life nothing is as it appears on the surface, "You've never gone without anything you've asked for," I casually dropped into the conversation, without missing a beat she replied, "You never bought me that pony I wanted when I was five." If she was American she'd be looking forward to years of therapy, in Nathalie's case I think, or is that hope, she was just joshing me.