Damn you for having a conscience and for being raised to have proper manners!!

In this thread I asked about a MAD magazine CD-Rom and where I might acquire one. From the responses given it seemed that my best hope would be E-bay.

However, last Tuesday I was helping my dad set up for the library book sale when I spied the familiar image of America’s Favorite Idiot, Alfred E. Neuman, smiling up at me idiotically.

There it was!!! The Fabled 7-CD-Rom set that I had asked about on the SDMB!!! Mine for the taking!!!

I asked my dad if I could take it and he said sure, that he’d put in a few dollars for me later.

Then, on Thursday, he said, “How much do you really want that MAD CD-Rom?

When a parent says that, you know that the battle has already been lost, as they will appeal to your better nature and sense of morality.

Well,” I said, "I asked about it on the SDMB and they said I would have to get it on E-bay, why?"

“Because there is a guy who joined the library association specifically because he had come to the book sale and seen the MAD CD-Rom and was going to buy it.”

So, did I give in? Did I let my better nature take something away from me yet again?

You better fucking believe it!!! :smack: :smack: :smack: :wally

Sometimes I well and truly hate myself for having been raised with a well and true sense of right and wrong and manners and proper etiquette.

Think of it as a challenge. The first one you found was too easy. It’s like the one that got away when fishing. You’re on mission now! Have fun with it.

I wouldn’t know. I doused my personal Jiminy Cricket with Raid and set him on fire years ago.

Well, think of it this way - Mad magazine is a bunch of selling-out bastards, and who wants their stuff anyway? Although I’m with you all the way on “the world is not set up for nice people anymore, if it ever was.”

Your dad sucks.

Bwaaaaaaahahaha!!! Sig line!