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Message started by kimchris1 on 12/25/12 at 08:06:39

Title: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by kimchris1 on 12/25/12 at 08:06:39

Talking to my sister the other night on the phone.
Her and my Mom live in Ca.
Anyways, she brought up the subject, on most
memorable Christmas presents when we were kids.
She said hers was the one when we got our new
bicycles. OMG it reminded me of how surprised and
how much we loved and enjoyed our new bikes.
We talked of how our Dad took us into town and let
us ride the few blocks back to our house on our new
bikes.
Then she asked me what my most memorable present was..
Well tell her when we got our twin beds..
We had shared a double bed and bedroom most of our lives.
We were 12 and 11 when we got our new beds.
Our brother had taken us to friends house and parents called
when it was time to come home.
We were told to "go clean your room".
That surprised us as we had cleaned our room that morning.
So we go in there and "surprise"..
New twin beds, bedspreads and Mom had even made and hung
up new curtains..
Life just couldn't get any better.. ;)
So if you have the time, how about sharing some of yours with
me.. Cup of cheer to all, xoxoxo :) kim

Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by arteacher on 12/25/12 at 09:12:45

First full sized bike. My parents hid it in the attic, but my mom forgot and sent me up there for something. I walked right past it twice and never saw it, which my parents did not believe. ;D

Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by WD on 12/25/12 at 10:11:02

Can't remember if I was 7 or 9 (I'm 40 now), but my Grandpa gave me his old truck. Still have it too, a 1949 Dodge 1/2 ton perpetual project... ;D

Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by Serowbot on 12/25/12 at 22:39:31

Christmas 1969,... my dad was on tour in Vietnam... he sent his Air-force buddy money to get me a bike...

My friends all had lawnmower type mini-bikes, but I just had my pedal bike...

It was beautiful... 60cc 2-stroke Yamaha Mini-trail... much like the little Honda 50, but with a 4-spd and a clutch... and a good bit faster...
Never expected it,.. we weren't rich, not even middle class...
Fortunately,... it fit through the front door... because, I was so excited, I slept next to it that night, on the floor... the gas/oil smell mixing in my nostrils as I slept...
:)...
Problem was,.. no dad to teach me to ride... and I had no idea what a clutch was...
I spent the first 2 weeks, revving it to high heaven, and slamming it into 1st... ride an abrupt wheelie for a bit... then go...
... I got the shifting figured out pretty quick... in an hour or so...
The nuance of clutching to take off, was a slower process of trial and error ...
Luckily,... the gas station attendant knew it was 2-stroke, and explained the oil/gas mix to me... (in those days, they had a squirt pump next to the gas pump... 1 squirt equalled 20/1 mix per gallon)...
Then,.. I broke my right arm in 2 places that January... (not from ridin'... from playin' soccer),... I was down for 2 months...
First day the cast was off... back on the bike...

Long story short... by the time dad came home,.. I was able to give him a power slidin', wheelie poppin', doughnut digging, stunt show...

That was my best present ever...

My dad died a young man, when I was barely out of high school,.. but I did get to buy him a bike,...a little Honda 360,... his first since he was a young man in the 1950's...

Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by ToesNose on 12/26/12 at 04:56:16

Hmmm I think the trend holds for me too, first bike :D It was an Evil Knievel bike!!! We didn't have money to burn and I didn't even ask for a bike more or less a more expensive one then say a base Huffy. So the joy brought to my young eyes on X-mass morning was more then I deserved :) I eventually bought one of those motorcycle noise making grips with my allowance too LOL.

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Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by Paraquat on 12/26/12 at 06:13:32

Christmas when I turned 21 was a good one.
I got an AK47.
They were only ~$260 at the time. All my friends got fancy clothes or mall gift cards or whatever kids got back then and I got an AK47. Technically a WASR10 but cosmetically they are the same thing.

It's the gift that keeps on giving! I still have it in near perfect shape with the original cleaning rod, brush, and tool kit. Only put about 10,000 rounds through it. I shot the Hell out of it every summer until I started working OT. I haven't stopped working OT since.

--Steve

Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by Pine on 12/26/12 at 07:21:33

5269637548697563060 wrote:

I'll be.. I never even knew they made those!!! ( i watched Evil fail over ther Snake river from my roof top)

I dont think I can think of "best ever" gift. In 1975 we moved (back ) from Idaho to Mississippi. It was a very sore trial ( for all of us), I had no friends, we went from a 2000' house to a miserable apartment. My aunt gave me 4 books. Up to that time a was good reader, but never really read a book for fun. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit. From Christmas day to going back to school, I read them all. I dont think I even slept. They became a yearly trek for me, when the world was cold and wet, and outside fun was no more, I would spend days and nights reading them.

Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by ToesNose on 12/27/12 at 21:08:11

How old were you Pine? The first time I tried reading Tolkien I was 9 and it was just too much for me (way over my pea brain), wound up coming back to it at 12 years old LOL.

Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by Pine on 12/28/12 at 06:34:39

4A717B6D50716D7B1E0 wrote:

How old were you Pine? The first time I tried reading Tolkien I was 9 and it was just too much for me (way over my pea brain), wound up coming back to it at 12 years old LOL.

In 1975 I was in 6th grade, so ~12ish. I got the books for Christmas, and birthday is February, so late 12.

Title: Re: Memorable Christmas gifts
Post by houstonbofh on 12/28/12 at 09:36:33

My most memorable Christmas gift was one I gave. It was for Aida. It was a ring. Actually THE ring. ;D She kinda suspected something. My entire family was there and entirely too well dressed. :)