[–] NotAnUndercoverCop 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
The year the Play Station came out I asked for one for Christmas.
So what does my mom do? She steals my NES and it's 32 games. Sells them at a pawn shop for next to free (ten bucks for the NES and a dollar for each game). Then for Christmas buys us a.... Super Nintendo. With 1 measly game.
We didn't want a Super Nintendo. We wanted a Play Station and certainly didn't want to get rid of our NES and it's 32 fucking awesome games we'd collected for it over the years.
Now all we had was a console from the previous generation and only one lousy game for it.
We never did get any more games for it because we didn't even want it in the first place.
We spent that entire year pretty much video game-less. It wasn't until the next Christmas she actually got me the Play Station.
When I think about how much that NES and all those games are currently worth it still makes my blood boil.
[–] UnicornMuffin 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Wally World wasn't an Amusement Park.
[–] ReanLu 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
For no apparent reason whatsoever, my mom chose to call Walmart "WallyWorld" ...
I had never seen the move and hated shopping so I'd often complain about having to go to to Wallyworld on the weekends. A classmate of mine who had seen Vacation a few times begged me to take her with us, so we arranged to pick her up on the way...I'm sure my mom thought that an odd request, but anyways.... The look of disappoint on her face when we pulled in at the mall and not an amusement park was so real, I wonder if someday I'll bump into her in one of these threads.
[–] Weedaholic 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
As a child, i wanted that fuckin cool mickey mouse drum set so bad...one day, my biological father was going to pick me up for the weekend and he told me he had a surprise for me from his Business Trip he recently did...i was excited as fuck,rocking this badboys in my mind...i was so disapointed when he proudly handed me this over as "the surprise" (he was in bavaria for his Trip)
[–] Weedaholic ago
It's called "wanderstock" in German, so i guess you could say wander/walkingcane...see that badges on that? You can buy mostly in small villages in the alps...they increase your badassness on the hiking trails (assuming you're 60+)...would i buy a thing like that as a surprise for my 6yo? Absolutely not :)
[–] Nerdyschmerdyguy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Teddy Ruxpin was a shitty, shitty friend,
[–] doc_chicken 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
On the subject of board games, fucking Mouse Trap. Having your younger sibiling delete your Pokemon save file.
[–] Wedhro 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
God not answering to my prayers. It's not what made me an atheist, but for sure it hurt.
[–] kjelle 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
God has been working on his receiver for awhile now. It should be working properly soon™.
[–] Wedhro 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
I would laugh but I still remember the existential crysis I experienced back then because God was ignoring me, something a 10 years old kid shouldn't be burdened with.