THE GREATEST GIFT YOU NEVER GOT

Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call.

Throwback Thursday this morning, we were talking about the greatest present you never got.

I wanted Barbie and her dream house.

Oh, what happened?

I got Midge.

Nobody wants Midge.

I know.

Wasn't she the pregnant one that got discontinued?

No, really, she was Barbie's pregnant sister.

Wow.

I think she was pretty young when she got pregnant, too.

She was pretty young when I got

her.

Hmm, you don't say.

Maybe it happened with somebody you set Midge up with.

I never had any sisters, so I never really related anything to Barbie.

How about G.I.

Joe's?

Yeah,

absolutely.

You know, maybe G.I.

Joe got Midge pregnant.

Oh, geez.

You know, he's on leave.

There you go.

He was on furlough or something, and he came back and, hey, Midge.

I wanted a magic cube, a Kodak camera, you know, with a little cube flash that went on the top.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So

my older brother and I, he was 10, I was eight.

We were living in Colorado and my grandparents mailed our gifts.

On Christmas morning, we opened up our gifts and guess who got the camera?

Your brother.

Yeah, my brother.

Did

your parents go oh that's not fair we're gonna go out and

get you the camera now

So you didn't really let on how disappointed you were that

day

The game operation that game scared me when I was a little kid because you didn't get the metal and I go and I go ah

It's like you killed the guy mom dad never did get it for me

You know, I'll bet if they had gone it for you You'd be a big-time surgeon living on easy street

Well the operation game might have helped me better in life when I grew up, you know with the women but

Uh, you were quite the operator?

Yeah.

I gotcha.

Although I'm sure a couple of women, after one of those quality Iron Man lines, did go,

eh.

Well, yeah, that's true too.

Yeah.

Some ladies in life will go,

eh, and some will go, yeah, sure.

You're quite the operator.

I

wanna

find out why they

call you Iron Man, they would say.

When I was a sophomore in high school I started learning how to play guitar I was gonna ask my parents for a guitar and my younger brother asked them for a snowmobile so lo and behold on Christmas morning last two packages under the tree no guitar no snowmobile but my parents got my brother a toy snowmobile and I got one of those guitars with a crank you crack it it was a good laugh my brother didn't think it was very funny

well it's not just not giving you the present it's rubbing it in

That was what my brother said.

Gee, Mom, it makes me feel real good.

So it was all meant to be this funny joke.

Yeah, she thought, you really think I was going to buy you a $4,000 snowmobile?

No.

It was worth a laugh.

OK, well, as long as you got a laugh out of it, that's all that matters.

But for their birthdays the next year, what you should have got them, it was like kind of a dollhouse kind of a thing of an old folks home.

Thanks for the joke.

We're going to be sending you there a little early.

The Holly Hobby Easy Bake Oven.

Why wouldn't you have gotten

that?

I don't know, but I never got it.

I would have asked for it.

I would have demanded a reason.

Why did I not get the Holly Hobby Easy Bake Oven?

I always begged for it, asked for it, and never got it.

Yeah, boy.

I wonder if you could find that on eBay these days.

I

don't know.

I don't know.

either.

You know, as a

boy, as

a boy, and you know, you know how things are, I never felt comfortable asking for an easy bake oven, but I would have loved to bake myself cakes.

Yeah.

So I never got one either.

I feel ripped off too.

Our aunt and uncle always got us these really nice toys

Yeah,

the toys didn't come with batteries and the old man would never buy us batteries

What the hell's the point then?

Well, that's what we always said.

Is that the present you never got was batteries?

Yeah, pretty much, yeah.

If

one used a toy, we had to wait till spring and go out and mow the lawn or something.

Yeah, and earn battery money.

Yeah.

Oh, they should have been arrested for battery.

That's what they should have been.

Your parents should have been arrested for battery, for giving you Christmas toys without them.

Battery's not included.

I

don't think we're not getting as batteries.

I think for the battery, they should have been arrested for battery, but... Sure.

Merry Christmas.

Here you go.

It's a lack of battery.

There you go.

This turned into something wrong.

Really, uh, dark?

Yeah, dark or absurd.

One of the toys that I always wanted that I never got was an Optimus Prime Transformer.

I was so devastated when I didn't get it.

Oh no, how old were you?

I was six.

You were six?

You didn't get the Transformer?

What'd you do?

Yeah, I threw up there.

I remember when those Optimus Prime Transformers were the biggest thing.

You know, probably cooler than Mike Gumby, I'd have to say.

Yeah, and it's worth like thousands of dollars now.

Is it really?

Yeah.

Do you think if you had still had it, yours would be worth anything?

or would you have totally trashed it?

Oh, I would have totally trashed it.

Yeah, see, that's my problem.

All these toys I had are worth millions now, and they have to be left in the box, and they can't be played with, and they have to be pristine.

And who gets a toy in this?

I'm just going to leave that in the box.

Yeah, not a six-year-old.

Yeah, no, no,

not

at

all.

Good morning.

This is the story of the boy that I threw a fit to get, and once I got it, I didn't want it.

Really?

What was it?

I was six or seven years old, and I wanted a set of clackers.

A set of clackers?

The little balls that clack.

Yeah.

Yeah.

About 20 minutes after I got it, I no longer wanted

it.

He didn't do much as far as anything other than clacking.

No.

No.

Well, damage to the forehead.

Damage to the forehead.

Yeah.

Once you've clacked, and especially if you've clacked your forehead, there's nothing left but the crying, really.

That was it.

It's not about me though.

It's about my dad.

Okay.

He was just like the kid in Christmas story.

He wanted that BB gun with the compass in the stock.

He did not get it.

My grandfather refused to buy him a BB gun and he threw a big fit.

When he was 65, he found one and bought it

for him.

What a good son.

And when he opened it, the man had tears in his

eyes.

Wow, so was it a new BB gun or the one he wanted as a kid?

Found one of the vintage ones.

That's

awesome.

It'll work.

And what was it, the red rider or something

like that?

The official red rider BB gun.

I can't remember all of it, but

yeah.

I can't remember all

of it.

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