Best and worst Christmas present...

Best was probably a bmx bike.

Worst had to be when I was around 9 or 10 and really into baseball cards... my aunt gave me a present that I was 100% sure was some baseball cards, which I would examine regularly under the tree the entire week before Xmas, imagining all sorts of wade boggs, rickey henderson, etc. cards inside the box. When I finally got to open it, they were baseball cards indeed, except it was a set of "negro league heroes" from some brand I never heard of. And they didn't have photos either, just shitty artist renderings with a neon green border.

Best I've received was my Sega Saturn. I was pretty chuffed about that.

I actually purchased the worst. I bought my little sister a small lightbulb because she was always being a spoilt little cunt.

  On 12/2/2009 at 5:45 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

Worst had to be when I was around 9 or 10 and really into baseball cards... my aunt gave me a present that I was 100% sure was some baseball cards, which I would examine regularly under the tree the entire week before Xmas, imagining all sorts of wade boggs, rickey henderson, etc. cards inside the box. When I finally got to open it, they were baseball cards indeed, except it was a set of "negro league heroes" from some brand I never heard of. And they didn't have photos either, just shitty artist renderings with a neon green border.

this had me in stitches.

"what the heck, aunt laurie? black people cards?

  On 12/2/2009 at 3:30 PM, keltoi said:

  On 12/2/2009 at 3:27 PM, LUDD said:

  On 11/28/2009 at 2:24 AM, Dirty Protest said:

ZX Spectrum in '82

 

 

same

 

this

yup.

Best present as a kid: My Pet Monster (I was 5, wanted one soooo bad)

Worst present as a kid: My Pet Monster (That thing scared the bejesus out of me every time I tried to goto sleep!)

  On 12/2/2009 at 5:45 PM, Bob Dobalina said:

When I finally got to open it, they were baseball cards indeed, except it was a set of "negro league heroes" from some brand I never heard of. And they didn't have photos either, just shitty artist renderings with a neon green border.

Ha!

Is it cos they was black?

  On 12/2/2009 at 6:42 PM, Drahken said:

Best present as a kid: My Pet Monster (I was 5, wanted one soooo bad)

 

Worst present as a kid: My Pet Monster (That thing scared the bejesus out of me every time I tried to goto sleep!)

 

i wanted one of those really badly too. nice to read that i was likely blessed for having been deprived of this.

  On 12/2/2009 at 7:07 PM, Adjective said:

  On 12/2/2009 at 6:42 PM, Drahken said:

Best present as a kid: My Pet Monster (I was 5, wanted one soooo bad)

 

Worst present as a kid: My Pet Monster (That thing scared the bejesus out of me every time I tried to goto sleep!)

 

i wanted one of those really badly too. nice to read that i was likely blessed for having been deprived of this.

That chain is useless! He could still throttle you to death!

Best: Defo my Game Boy in christmas 1990. Second place is the blue Were Bear, I remember shitting myself listening to the scary story tape that came with it.

Worst: Trigonometry set from Michael Movassaghi in year 7. I still don't feel bad that I laughed in his face. He didn't have a TV.

  On 12/2/2009 at 6:42 PM, Drahken said:

Best present as a kid: My Pet Monster (I was 5, wanted one soooo bad)

 

Worst present as a kid: My Pet Monster (That thing scared the bejesus out of me every time I tried to goto sleep!)

 

I got one of those for christmas! mine was the football version. I used to scare the crap out of my cousin with it.

For the Christmas when I was 14 or 15, my mother gave me a Betty Crocker Cookbook. I think I cried a little bit about it.