# Personal objects with emotional weight... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-objects-with-emotional-weight/14818 "2000-03-16T04:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-objects-with-emotional-weight/14818/21 "2000-03-17T14:11:00Z")
My '94 Yamaha Seca II that my dad gave me as a birthday present. I’d like to have an R-6, but I can’t get rid of the Seca II. A photo of my dad when he was a Lieutenant J.G. in the Navy. People say that’s what I’ll look like when I’m older. Ha! I _am_ older than he was when the pic was taken! A whole raft of stuff that belonged to dad. It’s amazing how much sentimental value one places on things when the person is no longer here. ## _The Little Prince_ by Antoine de St. Exupéry that I bought myself, because I can relate. “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-objects-with-emotional-weight/14818/22 "2000-03-17T14:22:00Z")
what do I have… a minature plastic statue of Darth MAul that my Ex gave me after we broke up, (we’re still really good friends) my Hr. Happy mug (another ex-present…) My Sacramento Ladies phone number on a post-it note… and a 22g jar of Nescafe Cap Colombie to relax me before I go home. * * * well, at least one person wants to meet me… [http://fathom.org/polldata/pollcheck.adp?poll=dope-page5&question=62](http://fathom.org/polldata/pollcheck.adp?poll=dope-page5&question=62) Cheers!! ---
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-objects-with-emotional-weight/14818/23 "2000-03-17T14:38:00Z")
> [@](#): > > The pictures I have in front of me of the sweetest, most adorable woman on the earth. I have pics of her too…and you…and everyone else at the Monterey bash…but it’s all a simple matter of getting some scissors… > [@](#): > > -A little wood carved statue of Don Quixote my dad gave me when I was a kid. On the bottom it says, “With love, Dad, April 25, 1979.” It’s always been a source of inspiration whenever I am feeling “different”. Sounds cool ;). Gee i was only over a month old at that time… Anyway for me it would be: - A bible printed in 1849 that we have. Though i’m not very Catholic anymore but I still find it a cool link to my past (we have some of our relatives names written down in the middle section of the book). It’s probably the oldest thing in the house. - I really cherish all the little trinkets i have bought on trips to San Francisco, but If I had to chose one it would be a carving of a dragon that I got when I went to San Francisco in High School in 1997 (i saw Phantom up there that day too). It’s memorable because it was the first time I had been up there to actually visit and enjoy the city. - My first tattoo (not quite an object but…). It has significance to me because it is my first, and it was at a time when I started to really realize who I am (the kind, caring, charming young man you all know and love (well, some of you)). * * * I myself am an incorrigible conlang slut. I love oral lex. ---
**Author:** ![inertia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@inertia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inertia)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-objects-with-emotional-weight/14818/24 "2000-03-17T15:19:00Z")
A) a video tape of the supposedly fictional up the butt Bob episode B) An alien warp drive (installed in my '67 Beetle) 1. A book: Feltching for Dummies. Seriously though, the three most important physical objects I can reasonable call mine are: 1. My brother. Not really _mine_ but he’s house trained and he comes when I call him. B) That’s it. I don’t put a lot of emphasis on anything else that I can think of right now. 1. I’m just putting something here so the casual observer won’t realize that I don’t own anything. * * * Voted most likely to ramble on inanely - I hope I’ve not taken someone else’s title ‘cause as far as I know I just made that up and I wouldn’t want to make anyone mad at me or anything like that and all ya’ know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-objects-with-emotional-weight/14818.md?page=1)