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All I want for Christmas is…
Nov
a charge card to your heart. Unless you take a check. Post dated.
but…I am not a finalist in this contest; Like a Ton of Bricks.
Here is an entry from some anonymous someone who is!
Literati!
Here’s hoping your stockings are well-hung this year:
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My sister and I were discussing Christmas. She told me that she wanted a camera and clothes for Christmas.
I said,” All I want for Christmas is The Shop King. Have you seen the commercial for it?”
“No,” she replied.
“It is so cool! It has tools, just like Dad’s, only smaller, for kids.”
“You mean, for boys”, she shot back. “Good luck on getting that!”
She just voiced my biggest fear. I wouldn’t get it because I’m a girl. I wanted it more than I had ever wanted anything. The things I could build!
I lost out, again.
Great story.I wanted a gun and holsters and boots and a horse. I totally understand where you are coming from. I let my son carry around a baby doll for the longest time. He really loved babies. Then on his own he traded off for shotguns and pirate weapons,peg leg, eye patch, gold…I think he buried the baby.
My son had a doll, too. My daughter had a a John Deere tractor with horn that she loved among all the other stuff, like the lids to pots and pans and the Tupperware drawer!
I wanted to play with my brother’s erector set and Lincoln logs, which my dad didn’t like. Who knows. . .If he had gotten me the stuff I wanted, maybe I’d be an architect today.
Then again, I never was good at math. . .
erector set?
Yeah, they take nuts and bolts.
do they give ’em back?????????? just askin’
No. They get lost in the bottom of the box on thier way out, between the cardboard cracks, to the hidden world underneath.
sleepin’ with my .44Mag! Nobody’s takin’ my nuts and bolt!
Gotta remember the GI Joe – the politically correct ‘Action Figure’ for Daddy’s little closet queen. What a screwed up society we are. But I digress……Love your story and thanks for standing up and saying what needed saying. It’s Christmas!