Now then, I suspect there are many older or at least wiser heads than mine on here so...
I'm sort of on holiday this week. Not going anywhere special but my son is on half term so I'm trying to spend a bit of time with him while his mum is at work as I never get the chance to take a break in the August summer school holidays.
As a family we enjoy trail riding and mountain biking. My wife loves it too but is not into the technology. I'm mildly potty on the subject and my son who is 10.5 years old is starting to show strong signs of my fanaticism for the activity.
Anyway we ( me and 'im ) were doing our thing today of trailing round bike shops drooling over the latest kit and, well, we've both sort of seen a bike each which we feel inexorably drawn to.
Now the thing is, I don't really need another mountain bike as such. I've already got two and another in bits. He doesn't really either, he's got two although one of them is getting a bit small..."She" has ...um...one. It's a bit old, a bit tatty, a bit low tech but she's happy with it and doesn't see any need to upgrade. Ours are, well, cough, quite a bit better than that already you see.
The dilemma with which I seek guidance is how to get her to the position of thinking that we would be well advised, indeed mad not to, avail ourselves of the two new and even more fancy bikes for H Jnr. and me...
I'm sure I'll get there unaided in the end but it struck me that there might be a wealth of untapped man-maths based deviousness to draw upon herein ?
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