‘Dear Mum and Dad, Malcolm told me to ask you to buy me a house’
THE PM’s joking suggestion that parents “shell out” to help their kids buy a house has prompted a wave of hilarious texts.
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WELL, the response to the suggestion rich parents buy their kids a house wasn’t all negative (gearing).
Malcolm Turnbull’s joking suggestion on radio that wealthy parents should “shell out” to help their children into the housing market might have caused the Prime Minister plenty of angst, but it also provided plenty of entertainment when youth radio station Triple J asked its listeners to put the question to their parents.
Triple J’s Matt Okine and Alex Dyson fielded some hilarious responses, and posted the best text exchanges on their Facebook page.
Props to the dad who replied to the request for “a couple of hundred $K” with a prompt reply — typing a series of “$K” signs.
Other responses ranged from “crying laughing” emojis, to “on the 12th of never when hell freezes over. Love you tho”.
Some asked “Who is Malcolm?”
One parent replied with a picture of a plastic Monopoly house, and an offer to help paint it.
Some parents were short on cash, but not on morbid creativity, with a tongue-in-cheek offer to sell a kidney, and another suggestion to ‘just knock me off and you’ve got this place for free’.
Other’s kept it succinct — a simple “no”, a “get f***ed’ or a “new phone, who’s this?” reply.
And one listener was left gobsmacked when the reply to their request for $50,000 for a deposit was: “Yeah that should be fine, check with Dad”.
For the record, this writer texted her parents with mixed results.
The first reply: “What colour roof do you want?” raised hopes. It was rapidly followed by “ ... of course, as long as your mother can move in.”
Looks like I’m still renting.
Originally published as ‘Dear Mum and Dad, Malcolm told me to ask you to buy me a house’
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