I'm in the middle of a fight with my wife right now....I'm going to go apologize :-)
Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SWCollect] Every collector's nightmare Well, actually I can think of some nightmares that come before this one, in order: 1. Fire 2. Flooding 3. Theft or accidental loss 4. Discovering your originals are fakes or counterfeit 5. Auction/trade gone horribly, horribly wrong .but I experienced #6 this weekend, and I thought I'd share it with you. I've been married for 7 years (I'm 30), but dated my wife for 4 years before that, so I'd like to think that I know her really well. I do, actually, which is why I could tell something was wrong this weekend. It turns out that she was feeling neglected, and we started fighting. The fight lasted, on and off, for about 3 hours, with me in the basement with all my computers and stuff on the couch and her in the bedroom. Now before I continue, I'd like to iterate that the fight was pretty much *my fault* and *I was indeed a massive jerk* and *fully deserved what I am about to describe to you*. My wife did NOT put me up to writing that; rather, I wanted to state it because I don't want any of you to feel differently about my wife: She is a very kind and loving wife and mother, and I owe much of my success in life and our wonderful children to her. I was solely responsible for the fight; I badgered her, I was a jerk, and I deserved the consequences. Now, with that out of the way, here's what happened: She didn't want the fight to end with us hating each other seperated by 2 floors, so she came down and tried to work things out. I had been stoked to a boil by that point and had no intention of working things out, at least at that time of the night. She tried to get me to listen, to work things out, to compromise -- but I didn't want anything to do with it. So to get me to react, to do *anything*, she walked over to one of my shelves, grabbed a box, and ripped it completely asunder. So what did she grab? Not one of the 95%-of-my-collection near-meaningless titles, but instead she had the incredible luck of grabbing Countdown (Access, 1990), NOT the Slash release. It's no Suspended mask or Starcross saucer, but I spent 6 months checking ebay listings to find a non-Slash original of this, and paid a little bit more what I thought it was worth because I wanted to a complete Access "adventure" series (Martian Memorandum, Mean Streets, Countdown, and Amazon). It had nostalgic worth, time-investment worth, and financial worth to me. Well, that pretty much ended the fight. I stopped being a complete jerk and we made up. The moral of the story is: Your family is always more important than your collection -- which should be common sense anyway :-) Anyone got a Countdown they'd be willing to sell or trade? ;-) -- http://www.MobyGames.com/ The world's most comprehensive gaming database project. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
