Hey! :mad:
Speak for yourself!
Oh, you were. Well, you’re still wrong.
I will cherish that image.
My dad still has a bunch of VHS tapes. He doesn’t want to spend the money on DVDs. He’s picked up a bunch of players at yard sales, and when one breaks he just throws it away and grabs the next one off the stack.
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If your folks are over 55, they’re easily confused
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Sometimes we use fake confusion to manipulate the young and weak.
I, for one, have got that ‘fake confusion’ thing honed to perfection…
Huh???
How embarrassing. I DO own a complete collection of Lil’ Abner. 1934-1962, at least, because Kitchen Sink Press went out of business at that point and the annual volumes stopped appearing.
Many people LIKE Lil’ Abner. Put THAT in your Fosdick and suck it.
OK. Different strokes I guess.
Your mom is a snip.
Man you ain’t kidding. This is sweet as balls. 31 inches? Holy dick.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Star-Wars-Episode-VII-31-Kylo-Ren-Figure/44298637
And you dweebs without a VHS player can’t be in the Cool Club with Idle, PSXer and me.
If you want to have some fun and have some spare cash, OP, file some legal paper to get yourself named as you parents’ conservator. Clearly they’re no longer capable of managing their own affairs, let alone yours.
I think all of the righteous indignation by the 55+ crowd is absolutely adorable.
Once you hit 55, there’s nothing else adorable left.
I have a stack of players linked to my TV:
- a computer (for online programmes)
- a DVD player (all regions, naturally)
- a video player (for my video tapes)
Why yes, I am over 60. 
Thank you. Now run along and make us a sammich, dearie. Adults are talking.
In the context of what happened you’re being insanely childish. Books in a garage sale normally go for very little money. If the entire box had sold what are we talking $5-$10-$20-$50 and that’s (realistically) what you’re throwing “This is the hill I will die on!” tantrum over?
I get that some people are borderline obsessive with their book hoard and that’s fine in your space. However, given the circumstances of giving a box of books out to a garage sale then crying and stamping your feet when your instructions weren’t precisely followed for these salable, disposable books is overwrought nonsense. Yes it would have been perfect if they called you to get the remainder, but really is this furious drama the direction you want to go? Is it the direction a reasonable adult would go if a box of books he was willing to get rid of were gotten rid of, just without the few dollars of payment? We’re talking a relative pittance here.
Get a grip you’re making reasonable people think you’re a giant out of control baby. I can only imagine what your parents think of you at this point.
Heck, my father still sets his VCRs up to tape programs so he can watch them without commercials or when they conflict. He still has a few working VCRs. I asked him if he will get the DVR after they all break: “Probably not.”
This is pretty good, I’d call it about an 8/10. I can’t seriously believe you think that Idle Thoughts is really acting like a “giant out of control baby” though, especially this far into the thread, which costs you the two points. But you’re getting me to reply to it with a, “Do you really believe it’s ALL about the books and not also partially about the complete disrespect about how** Idle Thoughts** lives their life? And they shouldn’t get upset about that?” which earns you six points. The other two points are for book collector dissing in general.
Disrespect? You have neat freak parents and YOU give them a box of (having now read the thread) low grade disposable books to sell and throw a huge hissy because you did not get your worthless junk back from a garage sale effort? At some point you have to own your decisions. If I give something to people, whose behavior I know well, to get rid of for relative pennies at a garage sale and it’s not completely disposed of and they donate it rather than calling me to pick up the remainder, that circumstance is annoying and predictable.
It’s worth any eye roll and a “Jesus Christ!”. It’s not worth a hysterical fit from an adult man who should have (at this point) known better.
A lot of people have had this reaction, but I don’t get it. If someone else, out of the kindness of their heart, allows you to sell some of their property, then it’s the height of inconsideration to repay their kindness by casually tossing the rest of their property out.
And it’s not anyone else’s place to decide for someone whether their property is valuable or not. It’s their property and you need to respect their decisions about it.
IMO it was a jerk move by IT’s parents, and he (she?) is right to be upset about it.
That said, you have to consider the fact that you want to have a constructive relationship with your parents, and not make too much of it. Like anyone else dealing with the transgressions of other people who they want and need to remain close to.
All that said, this …
… is pretty darned funny. 
So, you equate coming on here and ranting a little to throwing a huge hissy fit? Because I can assure you, I didn’t really make much of my annoyance known in real life, when I found out, beyond a simple “What? You got rid of them? I had told you I really wanted to keep them…argh.”
You seem to have pictured me falling onto the floor and beating my fists against the carpet over this. I was over it, even with my secret irritation that caused me to rant on here about it, about two hours after it happened and am only replying to this topic now just to tell you you’re mistaken. But if you really want to continue to picture me having a tantrum, feel free.