Sunday afternoon I went to my neighborhood Borders to pick up a book for a toddler I know. I was passing a display on my way to the stairs when a Beatles Trivial Pursuit game caught my eye. Beatles! I would be so lousy at that, even though I used to be great at Trivial Pursuit.
But I digress. Next to that board game was another one:
I took the top one off the stack and turned over the box to read more about it. Just then, I was reminded of my days in retail when a twenty-something man walked by and barely stopped long enough to say, “That could be fun, right?” before he snatched the next one off the stack and headed down the stairs.
Ah, those last few days of frantic holiday shopping, frequently by desperate and clueless males. I’ve had a lot of fun imagining the facial expressions of his possible recipients when they open their gift.
I can only speak for some of the guys…
The one on the top left is saying, “Damn, he’s hot!” The one on the top right (in drag) is saying, “OOOOHHHHH!! I must get one of thoes, Dah-ling!” The bottom guy on the right is dissapointed because he wanted “life-size.” (He’s a size queen.” And the top guy on the right is, well, let’s just say his lofty moral high ground is a little lower behind closed doors.
ROFLMAO =)->-<
Re: I can only speak for some of the guys…
I can speak for the woman on the lower left. She wanted a ring.
Re: I can only speak for some of the guys…
OoOo… does that mean the girl on bottom centre actually got the ring? 0;)
(I am ssssooooo looking forward to the mad rush of the holiday shopping madness count down, having done all of mine already. But, alas, I must get a whole set of new tires before I can venture out in all this snow. The roads should be passable, but the residential road my parents live along is always the last to clear up. I’m parked going up hill.)
Re: I can only speak for some of the guys…
No. They ALL got the Twilight: New Moon game. The girl on the bottom left got the game and wanted a ring. The girl in the middle got the game and was thrilled. Note the girl on the left is probably of an age to be Twenty-Something’s girlfriend. A girlfriend who wanted to be a fiancée. The girl in the middle is probably his niece.
I was envisioning, from top left, Twenty-Something’s roommate (a bouncer), his sister (who’s afraid of vampires), his sister-in-law (who wanted an iPod), his nephew (who wanted something that makes noise and shoots things), his grandma (who is not on Twilight’s Team Edward OR Team Jacob, she’s on Team Matlock), his trainer at the gym (who was hoping for the collected works of Maria Callas), his nerdy cousin (who wanted something that makes noise and could be uploaded to the computer he built himself), and his father (who would have been happy with another tie or a bottle of Old Spice).
Only the ‘tween niece will be happy with the game. Or maybe me, because the books have made me regress.
Be safe out there on those roads.
Re: I can only speak for some of the guys…
Sorry.
Re: I can only speak for some of the guys…
You have nothing to be sorry for! Unless someone gave you this game and you didn’t want it and you ended up making one of those faces. Then it’s the person who gifted you who’d really be sorry!
Becky, I’m laughing because I was this close to getting that very game for my 11-year-old niece, who loves the books. I got her the soundtrack instead. Children are not very good at concealing disappointment. That takes years and years of practice! I wondered if she would have enough friends who were into the series to play that game with. A few years ago I bought a friend the “Lord of the Rings” TP game (she specifically asked for it, though I tried to talk her out of it!) and I don’t anyone has ever played it with her.
I was at Target yesterday and a couple were shopping with their teenage son, and mom pointed out the game, “Battleship,” and asked the son if he remembered it. “Yeah,” he said, and then, under his breath, “I remember not having it.”
“A few years ago I bought a friend the “Lord of the Rings” TP game (she specifically asked for it, though I tried to talk her out of it!) and I don’t anyone has ever played it with her.”
Well, play it with her already.
I would think there’d be enough obsessed ‘tweens to play the game with her. You don’t know how tempted I was to buy it for us, just because I was hoping for some witty Team Jacob/Team Edward spats at The Compound.
She’ll love the soundtrack, I’ll bet.
Hahahaha…I may have made some of these faces in the past.
Me, too!
Ah, those last few days of frantic holiday shopping, frequently by desperate and clueless males.
I am totally offended by this totally accurate observation! 😀
Yes, and you should be. I mean, you should be out shopping instead of waiting until Thursday like a large percentage of your gender. 😉
Even though it’s a little early in the season for him, my husband may be out shopping for me right now.
I saw a Beatles Monopoly game just the other day and thought of you.
I cut out the hassle. I get myself stuff and tell Tom to wrap it and put it under the tree for me.
Ubergeekdom is never pretty. On the other hand – one more rich writer to add to the, uh, four others out there. Whoo-hoo!!!!!
ROFL. Are the five: Meyer, Rowling, Brown, Evanovich, and King? Bless them for keeping publishing afloat!