149 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby 26 Mar \ on: Where was the last time you felt unbridled joy buying something? meta
Last week when bitcoin dropped back to 61k I felt a lot of joy buying the dip.
Besides that probably when I bought my dad a snowblower for his driveway so he didn’t have to shovel anymore.
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112 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 26 Mar
Getting your dad that snowblower must have been the best feeling in the world.
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125 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby 26 Mar
Haha until he got pissed and said “I didn’t ask for that”. He changed his tune later and uses it all the time now. I get it. No one likes when time takes things away from them.
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99 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 26 Mar
After I posted my reply I imagined my father's reaction. What the f#$& did you do that for?
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126 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 26 Mar
Luckily my wife is more civil than your dad. See response above ☝️
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76 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 26 Mar
My next battle is to get him a pair of walking sticks (the ones that look like ski poles) for his daily walk. That’s going to be a tough sell.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei OP 26 Mar
This reminds me of the time when I bought Dyson, the world’s most expensive hairdryer, for my wife - and all she could do was mutter a shocked “Huh?”
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 26 Mar
Did she end up using after her initial response?
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