Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.Smash Wogan writes, "we all love our Mums, but we all know that Mums can be cunts, throwing out our carefully hoarded crap that we know is going to be worth millions some day."
What priceless junk have you lost because someone just threw it out?
Zero points for "all my porn". Unless it was particularly good porn...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 16:32)
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I had a Pong game.One of those little ones that you plugged into the TV, before they invented real consoles, and more importantly, the ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64. (delete as applicable)
You know, one of these. It was either the Mentor Colour 6 or the Monarch CTX-4 Color, I forget which now- I seem to remember the unit being orange, but then I also remember it having big switches that made really satisfying "clunk" noises when you switched them.
Despite the game being massively behind the times (we were part way through the NES era when I had it) I loved that thing. It was what got me into games, setting me off on that rollercoaster of taking ages to be this good, of commanded armies and conquered worlds, and of jumping in which has made me the person I am today*. It's not just a posession or a cultural artefact, it's part of me.
Which is why it hurt so much when she gave it away to the Scouts to sell at some Bring & Buy.
We haven't spoken since.
* Yes, a socially inept manchild loser ha ha fuck off
(, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 14:17, Reply)
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