First gut wrenching disappointment of christmas

[Stingy Jack]

I have one ....

This was way back in the day when I was still living with my parents. There was hinting going around that Christmas season that I would be getting a new computer (much like this season). Since my current machine at the time was a Tandy 1000SL, you can appreciate my excitement.

Well, Christmas day rolled around and I was tearing into the presents like a bitch looking for salami, but to no avail. No computer. Plenty of clothes, though.

My parents (clever couple that they were) acted as if the unwrapping was finished. Just as they soaked in my glare of disappointment, my mom slipped off to another room and brought back a large box, wrapped, with my name on it!

My stomach fluttered, my heart vibrated. I decimated that box in no time flat.

It was a word processor. A keyboard and monitor that could do nothing but process words.

Biggest fuckin' let-down ever.

[FairyKorpes]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack
I have one ....

This was way back in the day when I was still living with my parents. There was hinting going around that Christmas season that I would be getting a new computer (much like this season). Since my current machine at the time was a Tandy 1000SL, you can appreciate my excitement.

Well, Christmas day rolled around and I was tearing into the presents like a bitch looking for salami, but to no avail. No computer. Plenty of clothes, though.

My parents (clever couple that they were) acted as if the unwrapping was finished. Just as they soaked in my glare of disappointment, my mom slipped off to another room and brought back a large box, wrapped, with my name on it!

My stomach fluttered, my heart vibrated. I decimated that box in no time flat.

It was a word processor. A keyboard and monitor that could do nothing but process words.

Biggest fuckin' let-down ever.

I would want to throw up right there lol.

[Death By Jell-O]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack
I have one ....

This was way back in the day when I was still living with my parents. There was hinting going around that Christmas season that I would be getting a new computer (much like this season). Since my current machine at the time was a Tandy 1000SL, you can appreciate my excitement.

Well, Christmas day rolled around and I was tearing into the presents like a bitch looking for salami, but to no avail. No computer. Plenty of clothes, though.

My parents (clever couple that they were) acted as if the unwrapping was finished. Just as they soaked in my glare of disappointment, my mom slipped off to another room and brought back a large box, wrapped, with my name on it!

My stomach fluttered, my heart vibrated. I decimated that box in no time flat.

It was a word processor. A keyboard and monitor that could do nothing but process words.

Biggest fuckin' let-down ever.

I know that feeling.........

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack
I have one ....

This was way back in the day when I was still living with my parents. There was hinting going around that Christmas season that I would be getting a new computer (much like this season). Since my current machine at the time was a Tandy 1000SL, you can appreciate my excitement.

Well, Christmas day rolled around and I was tearing into the presents like a bitch looking for salami, but to no avail. No computer. Plenty of clothes, though.

My parents (clever couple that they were) acted as if the unwrapping was finished. Just as they soaked in my glare of disappointment, my mom slipped off to another room and brought back a large box, wrapped, with my name on it!

My stomach fluttered, my heart vibrated. I decimated that box in no time flat.

It was a word processor. A keyboard and monitor that could do nothing but process words.

Biggest fuckin' let-down ever.

i had a deal like that ..christ u just made me think of one of my shittiest memories for the 1st time in years ..

I'd been asking for a record player for years ... i went snooping (as i always did) and found a record player hidden away with the presents .. my folks always hid the shit in the same place.
So i was happy .. and i wasnt happy a lot in those days ... i couldnt wait to get it all set up in my room so i could listen to my music without being bothered by anyone.
So xmas comes ... and i see the big box all wrapped ... and its to my sister and me. She never once asked for one or showed any interest in music .. but now i had to put the fucking thing in the rec room instead of my room .. so i never used the goddamn thing.

Assholes ..

well, there goes my xmas again this year ... i think i'll just go and hang myself now.

[Vodstok]

Originally posted by The STE
That's not irony, it's a coincidence

EVERYONE's a critic, mr smarty pants.....(i know that isnt correct either, in case anyone was wondering...)

I never had anything quite as terrible as stingy's.

One year I actually made some family members feel bad (although they had no reason to). I finally had a year where i made some decent money, and i was still living at home. SO, for christmas, i bought a dvd player (My family's first) and a disc for everyone.

That year i got the Matrix and Aliens Special Edition on VHS. Everyone got disappointed, thinking i was let down that i got them on tape whjen i could have had them on disc. It took a while for them to get it into their heads that i was more interested in surprising them than getting the movies on disc. i also pointed out that none of them would ever watch either movie with me, and since i had a vcr in my room and the dvd player would be in the living room, everything worked out better that way.

Some people worry too damn much.

Interesting little back story to the whole thing. The disc i bought for the family, the first one they actually saw that i bought, was blazing saddles. I got it because it was the first movie we ever watched on our first VCR ever.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok
EVERYONE's a critic, mr smarty pants.....(i know that isnt correct either, in case anyone was wondering...)

I never had anything quite as terrible as stingy's.

One year I actually made some family members feel bad (although they had no reason to). I finally had a year where i made some decent money, and i was still living at home. SO, for christmas, i bought a dvd player (My family's first) and a disc for everyone.

That year i got the Matrix and Aliens Special Edition on VHS. Everyone got disappointed, thinking i was let down that i got them on tape whjen i could have had them on disc. It took a while for them to get it into their heads that i was more interested in surprising them than getting the movies on disc. i also pointed out that none of them would ever watch either movie with me, and since i had a vcr in my room and the dvd player would be in the living room, everything worked out better that way.

Some people worry too damn much.

Interesting little back story to the whole thing. The disc i bought for the family, the first one they actually saw that i bought, was blazing saddles. I got it because it was the first movie we ever watched on our first VCR ever.

did you manage to get it out of the cover without snapping it in half ? :)

[Vodstok]

I was wiser in those days, i let someone else do it.


see, this is why i bought hl2 over steam. if there is no disc, there can be no breakage.

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok
I was wiser in those days, i let someone else do it.


see, this is why i bought hl2 over steam. if there is no disc, there can be no breakage.

i shouldnt tease .. i almost snapped a difficult to find Lime Spiders cd that was in my dashboard player .. my kids backpack strap caught on it and i almost snapped it .. so i frantically tried to get around it , caught on it again, and nearly snapped it again.

i hate shit like that .. those self fufulling prophecies you cant escape ...
like knowing you are going to stain your new shirt on food so you take extra special care but events start moving toward that inevitable conclusion and it gets stained anyway.
you know in your heart that even if the fucker had been hanging up in your closet it still would have gotten stained because it was your fate.

my whole life is full of moments like that ... but i never give up !

[Vodstok]

see? this is why Married with Children was on so long. Who doesnt have a little Al Bundy in them? (okay, except for peggy. insert drum rimshot)