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Oct. 26th, 2009 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sadlikeknivesMy dad's lawnmower first broke down oh, about a year and a half ago and has been repaired numerous times since then, and is now basically held together with duct tape and prayer. He has even gone shopping for a new lawnmower (multiple times!), but claims he cannot find one that quite suits him.
On Saturday, my mom and I went to a Renaissance Faire. While we were there we got a phone call from my dad, saying he'd noticed lines in the picture on his big screen TV, and since it was a projection TV he was pretty sure it couldn't be fixed, so since he was going into town anyway he thought he'd look at TVs. I hung up, suggested we might wind up getting him a new TV for Christmas to my mom, and we went on. I should have known better.
We returned home to find he'd bought the largest damn LCD TV Wal-Mart had. This thing is massive. My mom claims she's thinking of moving boarders into the box it came in, which apparently fit in the back of his Escape, so clearly there's a hammerspace pocket in there I didn't know about before. I haven't even asked how much it cost. I'm kind of scared to. The time between his noticing a problem with the old TV and buying a new, even bigger one cannot have been more than three hours.
Maybe we'll get him a lawnmower for Christmas.
On Saturday, my mom and I went to a Renaissance Faire. While we were there we got a phone call from my dad, saying he'd noticed lines in the picture on his big screen TV, and since it was a projection TV he was pretty sure it couldn't be fixed, so since he was going into town anyway he thought he'd look at TVs. I hung up, suggested we might wind up getting him a new TV for Christmas to my mom, and we went on. I should have known better.
We returned home to find he'd bought the largest damn LCD TV Wal-Mart had. This thing is massive. My mom claims she's thinking of moving boarders into the box it came in, which apparently fit in the back of his Escape, so clearly there's a hammerspace pocket in there I didn't know about before. I haven't even asked how much it cost. I'm kind of scared to. The time between his noticing a problem with the old TV and buying a new, even bigger one cannot have been more than three hours.
Maybe we'll get him a lawnmower for Christmas.
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Date: 2009-10-27 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-27 12:45 pm (UTC)Lawnmowers make awesome Xmas presents.