lolgaxe wrote:
We needed a new coffeemaker after ours stopped making coffee and started pretending to be a paperweight, and my wife got a little annoyed with my choice. She told me to go out and pick one up, and I did, so I'm not sure why she got angry. I mean, sure it was like $3,000 and attached to a fridge, but it still makes coffee. I think she just overreacted.
Reminds me of a Navy friend of mine who got permission to order a couple walkie-talkies so he and a co-worker could communicate while doing some repair work on the base. Apparently, he miss-wrote the number on the order, because they received two *giant* crates. When they opened them, they discovered each contained a jeep. The paperwork for the order stated "Walkie-Talkie, with attached Jeep" (well, or whatever "walkie-talkie" translates into military speak). Sure enough, each jeep had a cradle with a walkie-talkie in it.
As to my Christmas, while not on the same scale as friends dying, I made the mistake of putting the Hobbit films on my list. And proceeded to get 5 copies of the last one. And two different people managed to get me the exact same pullover sweater. How does that happen? Still. I got the new Avengers and Ant Man films, and some gift certificates, and stuff I exchanged the duplicates for (and for some dorkish inexplicable reason some of which translated into new led vanity lightbulbs. Yes, I'm auld!). So all in all, not a bad deal in the end.
And on an unrelated bulb topic. When the heck did they make changing out headlights in a car so freaking difficult? Passenger side bulb went out, and I figured I'd buy a pair and replace them at once (so they'll be equally bright). The passenger side was pretty easy (and I did it first cause I'm not totally dumb here). The driver side? Well, you either need to remove the front fender or remove the entire air filter assembly to get to it. Both of which require tools that I apparently don't own anymore (haven't worked on my own cars in like a decade or two). Not end of world or anything, but an annoyance in the midst of all the other time consuming holiday stuff going on.
Oh. I won a bottle of Crown Apple in the traditional Christmas Eve gift exchange/steal/whatever game. Freaking ridiculously yummy. Didn't think it'd go well with plain old Coke, but it did. Very very well.