PoetPhilosopher
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@SigurdReginson - what got you into tattoos?
@Conscious thoughts - did you get a promotion? How's that going?
@Conscious thoughts - did you get a promotion? How's that going?
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I always interpret the optimistic frubal as an eye roll. I can't help it. There are some subjects like religion and salvation and reincarnation that I'll budge on. But this, you'd be better off wrestling a mad bull than changing my mind.
So @JustGeorge - just for that I should tell you a long story about the summer I spent opening plastic action figures.
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I was a teenager and I had watched Star Wars Attack of the Clones 10 times because I liked it and had rather poor taste in movies. One day, I saw that the action figures were on sale and I spent my birthday money and all my savings to buy about 40 of them. It filled two carts. I considered it an investment because I thought they would be worth something. Toward the end of the summer, I realized my summer was wasted watching Star Wars movies and playing Star Wars games. So I decided to open all 40 of the Star Wars action figures. It took me all day to open them all. And they were great to play with. For 2 whole days. After that they stayed in storage tubs. Years later, yardsalers talked me down from $1-$2 a piece on each loose figure. A bunch of kids even came and stole a few.
Don't worry. I have plenty more stories.
It's cool, JustGeorge. I do think that in general, but really I'm just bringing some life to the boards here. The action figure story is true though. Although the watching Star Wars 10 times is an estimate and could be more or less. How's your day going?
Well, I'm optimistic. Bring on the bull...
(Heaven knows I deal with enough of it.)
A few years ago, I found a Barbie I really would have wanted as a kid. She was chubby and had blue hair and black clothes. She looked a lot more like me than the pencil thin blondes one thinks of as being Barbies. So I bought her. I noticed they started making Barbies a lot more diverse as well... interesting.
My husband didn't drive for most of our marriage. His choice. I didn't mind picking him up from work, but he'd say "be there at 7:00" and he wouldn't get off until 7:50. I asked him politely not to call until he was actually off work. It continued. I asked him quite rudely not to call until he was actually off. It continued. So I started charging him a quarter a minute to sit in the parking lot and wait for him. I amassed a good bit of money quickly... what to do with it? I started buying the unique Barbies I was finding.
And some of them would be worth good money now, too, if I hadn't taken them out of the box(Some of the 2014 collection, which I have all of, are no longer available.) But what fun is that? There's over a hundred of them, all lined up around the house on shelves.
Interesting story. It's so interesting and relevant, I made you an animal to be:
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You can be the bird or the rodent. Or both.
So anyway....
My dad was the Big Daddy of the family. Conservative family. He loved the show I Love Lucy. I'm partial to the show too, to be honest. One year he bought a Lucy Barbie doll. He kept it in the package. However, he wished for a granddaughter and missed having a daughter that wasn't grown. So when his daughter, my sister, asked him what he wanted for Christmas one year, he said a Barbie horse. Personally though, I think he was just being frisky and trying to give her a hint about how he thought she should have kids, because he wanted a granddaughter. Well he got his Barbie horse and in this case, he opened it and kept it in a cookie tin. I don't think he truly played with it. But yeah. The whole thing was a little weird.
I guess I'll be both!
I think a lot of adults are still drawn to toys... some are more open with it, others try to make it dignified, and some of us just don't care.
Work related i did get a new contact yes@SigurdReginson - what got you into tattoos?
@Conscious thoughts - did you get a promotion? How's that going?