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With Christmas almost here, aunts and step dads across the country
are braving the crowds to get their hands on the must have gift for 2008.
The Presto Electric Tea Kettle. After appearing at the top
of Good Housekeeping's 2008 list of top 10 gifts for young people you barely know,
the teapot has been nearly impossible to find due to demand from aunts and step dads,
desperate to get the perfect gift for relatives they are hopelessly out of touch with.
We can't even keep them on the shelves. They're selling faster
than last year's purple fleece robe and the dog coin bank,
that barks when you put coins in it.
Stores nation wide report they are sold out of the kettle.
In Akron, Ohio, hundreds of aunts and step dads lined up hours
before this store opened, after word got out that it had received a new shipment
of electric tea kettles.
Everyone needs a tea kettle when they're in college,
which I think my nephew is.
I wish I could see Becky's face when she opens this on Christmas morning,
but I think she's going to be at her real dad's.
Shoppers who were lucky enough to get the coveted item,
are saying the trouble was well worth it.
I think I did great.
But Becky won't let me in her room so I hope she doesn't already have one of these.
Stores are trying to pair the electric tea kettle with other gifts
no one under 50 would want, like this selection of herbal teas,
packed in a tin shaped like a cat. But the added stress of the holidays
seems to be bringing out the worst in people as well.
Earlier today, police were called to a Kansas City mall,
after step dads began fighting over a store's last remaining Presto Tea Kettle.
Police did not arrest the men, stating that "As estranged step dads
hopelessly trying to attain the affection of children who do not and will not ever love them
the men have suffered enough this holiday season".
That seems like a perfect gift for my wife's kids.
Coming up next - What's the true meaning of Christmas?
Our Christmas panel dukes it out from the Christmas war room.
We'll be right back.
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