Although the grammar and spelling are atrocious, good job mom!
You need to fix that link. I’m wondering what the hell you’re talking about, since “PS2” sounds like a public school in New York to me.
Which auction is it? The link takes you to a members (the mother’s?) ratings page.
Looks like it’s this one.
He opened the champagne with a corkscrew??
:smack:
Yes, thanks Shayna.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems rather odd that she mentioned anything about the incidents in the item’s description. Maybe the seller just wants to get it off their chest and tell someone, or maybe they’re trying to jack up the price by way of sympathy.
First of all, I would say that the kid obviously knew he was doing something wrong by destroying the bugle. I suppose that the price of the drinks could be added, too.
About the wine, though; on the one hand, he shouldn’t have been messing with things that didn’t belong to him. However, did he know how much that particular bottle of wine costed, or that they were saving it for a special occasion? Obviously not, as they sprung it on him after he drank it. I just don’t think that’s right.
Oh well, I guess that kid will now be playing with a ball and string, unlike all the other kids his age.
THat confused me too. Of course I’m not rich enough to have ever had Dom, but I imagine it opens just like every other champagne I’ve ever seen. Something is fishy.
Maybe it’s just that I’m not a parent, but I don’t see the particular value in telling a 13-year-old to especially stay away from that Dom Perignon because it’s really expensive. He shouldn’t be touching any booze, period.
I’ve seen a lot of these “long funny/dramatic story” eBay items before; at this point, it’s hard to tell who might be telling the truth and who’s trying to get attention.
I call “bogus”. A thirteen year old kid drinks a six-pack of beer and Mom is only worried because it cost six bucks? I don’t think so.
And maybe I’m being elitist and all sorts of politically incorrect things, but judging from the grammar, Mom doesn’t sound like she’s in the social class that keeps $120.00 bottles of anything in the house.
I think it’s more likely one of those increasingly frequent EBay auctions that are provided a Jerry Springerish backstory in order to draw the crowds.
Then maybe that’s what she should have told him. She didn’t say “didn’t I tell you not to drink alcoholic beverages”, She said “You drank one that was really expensive, and now you have to compensate me for it”.
Besides, don’t locks exist anymore? What’s next, telling a 13 year old “don’t look at the dirty magazines in the closet”? What, you think they’d really obey that when nobody else is around?
I didn’t think this was the only reason she was mad, but it would be the only part that applied to remuneration. I have to admit, this would be a lesson learned for the chump: start selling his toys to pay for his messes. If grounding doesn’t work, maybe this will.
Maybe.
Yes, it’s quite possible that this auction was a line of bullshit. On the other hand, I do get an “angry self-righteous” vibe from it which could be genuine. I also was wondering why the emphasis on monetary cost, but I suppose (as others have said) that it is the justification for this auction. Sure, the little imp shouldn’t have been drinking the booze, but selling his Playstation wasn’t just punishment for misdeeds, it was also to recover cost. Or perhaps that’s how the mom is explaining it to her kid.
Of course it’s right (if indeed the story is true). The kid had no business drinking the wine and now he must pay.
Something like this happened to me when I was a kid. My dad had a drawer of stamps that we could use to mail letters. Some of the stamps were “off limits,” as they were collectors stamps (meaning they were still valid stamps and sometimes recently released stamps, but they had more value to collectors). My dad collected stamps so he took them all very seriously.
Anyway, I needed to mail a letter and started to root through his stamp drawer. I couldn’t find any of the “okay” stamps to use, so I used some stamps that looked very ordinary (and were newer stamps—not old precious ones). I knew they were “off limits,” but they didn’t look very expensive and I didn’t think my dad would notice. Well, it turned out that they were more valuable to collectors than I realized. I had also ruined the “sheet” of stamps by taking a few of them off. So my dad made me pay to buy a new sheet of those stamps.
It was fair. I had no business taking the stamps when I knew that I wasn’t allowed. I hadn’t anticipated that they’d cost so much (I’m guessing $10 - $15 for stamps that probably cost $5 at the Post Office), but hey—them’s the breaks. I learned a lesson and never did that again.
What, so parents aren’t supposed to trust their kids anymore?
My dad drinks beer, kept it in the fridge (now keeps it in the garage) and I could have (still could) go get one anytime I wanted. I didn’t. Know why? My parents told me not to.
I wouldn’t be trusting my kid much after something like that had already happened, sure, but to automatically distrust them and keep everything potentially dangerous to them under lock and key seems pretty unreasonable to me.
Champagne bottles often use real cork (and I would be surprised to find anything else in a bottle of Dom!) and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn that a 13-year-old doesn’t know not to use a corkscrew to get it out, even though it’s shaped differently than a standard wine cork.
Why is this in the Pit?
As to the subject, I’m amazed that “Mom” isn’t selling the games, too. If I were doing something like this, I’d certainly throw in the kid’s games as well, because anyone buying the console would certainly want some games to play on it. Besides which, the games COULD be included to get a higher price. If Sonny Boy still has the games, he can borrow a PlayStation 2 or rent one, and play them.
I suspect it’s a story, though quite well told. And it worked, didn’t it? Now we’re all looking at that auction, and at her other auctions.
Count me with the bogus.
A bugle with a slide??
This is the kid selling it. He doesn’t even know what a bugle is.
Well, this is either bogus, which is what I think, or the lady is a bitch for airing her son’s dirty laundry out on the World Wide Web.
My mom would never disrespect me like that, one reason being because she knows my friends (god love 'em) would find that auction, print hundreds of copies of it, and then paste them all over town. I’d never live it down.
I’m still voting bullshit though.
At least some bugles do indeed have a slide. It’s used for draining spittle and tuning the instrument, not playing as in a trombone. I don’t have my Boy Scout bugle anymore because I broke the slide.
I have very little experience with champagne (and absolutely none with Dom Perignon).
However, all the champagne bottles I’ve seen have had corks held in place with wire, and have a metal cap on top of the cork. To open, you just untwist the little loop of wire and the cork pops out under the pressure of the carbonation. Seems to me, it’s practically impossible to uncork a bottle of champagne with a corkscrew: By the time the metal cap is off, the cork is gone.
Other problems I have with this story:
Where’s the games? If you were going to sell off your kid’s PS2 as punishment, why not go whole hog and sell the games, too?
At what part is a bugle soldered? I’ll grant that some bugles have slides (like Jeff pointed out), but where the hell would the solder joints be?