Interesting footnote to my birthday having gone by. The status quot has successfully been maintained: Another birthday has come and gone and I *still* have not gotten a pair of wireless headphones!
Before you ask, no. I will *not* give up on this! It is now a personal quest. Someday, someone, somewhere, for my birthday or for Christmas, is going to gift me with a pair of frikkin' wireless headphones that I can plug into my computer and listen to my music at work with. I've asked every year now for five years. I could have bought myself a pair a long time ago, I'm sure, and there have been quite a few deals in fact... but that would defeat the point of this vendetta. I'm going to intentionally be a stickler on this point. Someone is going to *gift* me with this.
It's an interesting commentary on human psychology, though, when you think about it. People do any number of things around these events, anything from dropping subtle hints to outright screaming what they want. What's odd is, the people who scream at the top of their lungs what they want are the people most unlikely to *get* it. Why? It is apparently considered "distasteful" or something by most people, to get someone something they've asked for. Odd, that.
What are your thoughts on this topic, public? Why do the people who say loud and clear what they want never get it, but the people who (intentionally or unintentionally) hint subtlely are always well taken care of?
(It's worth mentioning that this post is pretty tongue-in-cheek, so don't take it *too* seriously. ^_^)
28 August 2008
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The reason I didn't is the pair you wanted was sold out everywhere.
Plus, you have money from your ma. Why not use it to that end? She'd be really happy to know SHE inadvertently bought you exactly what you want for your birthday.
Oh, and the status isn't quot.
(It's quo.)
Spellchecked AND got in a Dr. Horrible reference. Hee!
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