Wiggles revisited We were having dinner with our neighbors the other evening when the topic of the Wiggles was reluctantly reintroduced. And by "reluctantly reintroduced" I mean our neighbor's son and our son had been watching one of the Wiggles videos, over and over and over and over. Keep in mind that our neighbors also made the pilgrimage to the Arena at Gwinnett Center for the "Concert Event of the Millennium".

These guys are making a killing. Between their television contract, the video sales, concert revenue and the ever important merchandising, these guys are raking it in!

Which brought us to our topic of discussion as our children stood mesmermized in front of the television, watching these aussie punks sing and dance. The ticket prices for their concert were inappropriately priced.

$30 a ticket. Didn't matter if you were 3 years old or 30. Each ticket was $30. So for two parents with an only child to go to this show ended up costing over $115, taking into account taxes and service charges. And don't get me started on the merchandising booths outside the venue. $15 for a stick with a car on the end? Come on!

You go out to a restaurant and kids eat cheaper than the adults do, sometimes it's even free for the kiddies. Let's have some balance in the universe. If you want to charge my toddler $30 for a ticket to your concert, that's fine. But my ticket should be free, or at a minimum, half price. I don't have to purchase an airline ticket for my son, yet I have to shell out thirty greenbacks for a concert ticket?

It's not like you dancing fools from a penal colony haven't made enough money off of us parents.

And yet the video still plays on in the living room, children fixated, mouths agape, preparing to dance.

  ¶ 9:20 AM