Times your parents pulled it out the bag and bought it right

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In a similar vein to to the bought it wrong thread but turning it around and doing it right!!

I have a couple:

Asked for a master system for Christmas knowing that money wasn’t exactly flowing at that point and the mega drive had only just been released ... got up one morning, headed downstairs ready for school and dad stops me and tells me I’m not going to school today, we’re going out - just me and him

This rarely happened, so got get sorted in normal clothes and we head out, we arrive at Toys R Us at Gateshead - im proper perplexed at this point - we go in and he heads straight for the gaming aisle and gets the last mega drive with sonic pack (rather than the altered beast pack thankfully) - I was shocked and overjoyed!

Second one, I wanted an RC car for Christmas and asked for a generic small car for some reason when secretly lusting for a larger Ferrari (after visiting Maranello in the summer and falling in love with the Testarossa) and come Christmas morning there was a 1/8 Nikko Ferrari Testarossa - still have it to this day

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CardinalFang said:

Not exactly bought, but they allowed someone to give me an absolutely brilliant gift...

Sometime around 1972/3, my Aunt's neighbour gave up driving & asked her if she knew anyone who would like his car - an Austin A35 (the ones in the new classic race series). She suggested me, asked my folks & they agreed: they'd trailer it to our house (about 60 miles away) & I could learn some basic mechanics & keep it in good nick until I was ready to drive. I was TWELVE & HAD A CAR! It was amazing - none of my school friends believed a single word of it, as I spent most of the summer sitting in it pretending to be Roger Clark. "you'll see when my dad brings it home" I insisted.

Unfortunately...the neighbours house was burgled & the miscreants rammed the car making their getaway, writing it off. My mates insist I made the whole thing up.

Awful end to it!

I got a car for my 15th - Suzuki SK410 and none of my friends believed me either, it was due to be brought back from Scotland where I had been learning to use it on my parents caravan site and the transfer box locked in neutral - I was called a liar ... however 3weeks later it was trailered home to their shock and awe!

I later took an angle grinder to the roof and carved it into a convertible when I was bored one afternoon and thought it would look cooler as a ragtop - I was right but my dad hit the roof that I just chopped it off without talking to him about it!

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travel is dangerous said:

the guitar, [snip] it enabled all of my most fun times there.

Great gift but you did university all wrong my friend