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21-12-06, 09:17 PM

It was a push bike when I was about 10 or 11.

Christmas day came and we all opened our prezzies as normal. We were not very well off but knowing no different, the prezzies that we received were as far as we were concerned fantastic. Normally each one of us had something "big". It was almost definitely 2nd hand and a bit worse for wear, but for us it was the best. This particular year everyone opened their big prezzie but I didn't seem to have one. I shrugged it off and enjoyed the rest of the day. It was later in the afternoon that my mother asked me to look out the back to see if was snowing. I opened the curtains and there was my "new" bike. I was beyond myself with joy.

I took it straight outside and went for a ride. I had only got half way down the road when my pedal suddenly hit the floor. The frame had broken with metal fatigue. I was mortified. Not because the bike was broken but the fact that I would have to go home and tell my parents that I had just broken the best gift that they had ever given me.

I blubbed like a baby, but my mum shrugged it off and consoled me. I knew that there was no way that I would be getting a replacement.

School started again, and on my return from my first day back there in the front room was a BRAND NEW RALLY GRIFTER. I just could not believe my eyes. I was exactly the same as the one that all of my friends had. With the gear shift lever in in front of the seat and everything.

THAT was the best present I have ever had. Not because it was the "in thing" and cool. But because I knew that my mother must have sacrificed something very serious to have got it for me.

21-12-06, 09:23 PM

That was the chopper, the Grifter had a twistgrip gearchange on the handlebars :P :P

I don't know if I could narrow it down to one "best" pressie as my parents really busted themselves to make sure I had a great christmas every year. All taken for granted at the time too

Pete

northwind · 21-12-06, 09:35 PM

Lego... Every year since I was old enough we'd get some sort of lego, and then spend ages building it, then take it to bits and build something else, then build it again and probably blow it up, then get out all the old lego and so on... Every new bit added to all the rest. The all time best was the castle I got one year. Lego Knights were the best lego, no doubt about it. Pirates were good, but knights were better.

Ah, hang on, I always wondered why it is I'm always tweaking things, taking them to bits and putting them back together, and upgrading and modifying... Bloody lego!

21-12-06, 09:46 PM

Did you ever get Tecnic Lego?
Savage stuff altogether.

northwind · 21-12-06, 09:51 PM

Technic was good, but not as easy to mess with. My brother had the pneumatic kit, would have been great if we'd had any idea what to do with it

21-12-06, 11:27 PM

I got a frisbee one crimbo, brand new it was to. Apart from that it was always second hand stuff from the market. My brother got a 10 speed racer one year, but that was only because my step dad got it in the back of the transit while the owner stepped into the woods for a leak.

22-12-06, 01:29 AM

Razor, was your Old man called Del Boy, and your uncle called Rodney, and did you motor about the place in a Robin Reliant by any chance?

22-12-06, 02:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by philipMac

Razor, was your Old man called Del Boy, and your uncle called Rodney, and did you motor about the place in a Robin Reliant by any chance?

No it was a hand painted oxide red transit.

22-12-06, 06:56 AM

i recon it was this

22-12-06, 12:45 PM

Mark's story is lovely. As you say, it's the memories rather than the presents themselves that are so precious.

My favourite is getting a bucket of smarties and a sit on digger with a crane you could move. The memory of tipping the bucket of smarties over the floor and scooping them up and dropping them using the digger is one of the best of my life.

21-12-06, 09:35 PM	#23
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Lego... Every year since I was old enough we'd get some sort of lego, and then spend ages building it, then take it to bits and build something else, then build it again and probably blow it up, then get out all the old lego and so on... Every new bit added to all the rest. The all time best was the castle I got one year. Lego Knights were the best lego, no doubt about it. Pirates were good, but knights were better. Ah, hang on, I always wondered why it is I'm always tweaking things, taking them to bits and putting them back together, and upgrading and modifying... Bloody lego! __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

21-12-06, 09:51 PM	#25
northwind Moderator Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: In the garage where I belong Posts: 17,083	Technic was good, but not as easy to mess with. My brother had the pneumatic kit, would have been great if we'd had any idea what to do with it __________________ "We are the angry mob, we read the papers every day We like what we like, we hate what we hate But we're oh so easily swayed"

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21-12-06, 09:17 PM	#21
Stig Guest Posts: n/a	It was a push bike when I was about 10 or 11. Christmas day came and we all opened our prezzies as normal. We were not very well off but knowing no different, the prezzies that we received were as far as we were concerned fantastic. Normally each one of us had something "big". It was almost definitely 2nd hand and a bit worse for wear, but for us it was the best. This particular year everyone opened their big prezzie but I didn't seem to have one. I shrugged it off and enjoyed the rest of the day. It was later in the afternoon that my mother asked me to look out the back to see if was snowing. I opened the curtains and there was my "new" bike. I was beyond myself with joy. I took it straight outside and went for a ride. I had only got half way down the road when my pedal suddenly hit the floor. The frame had broken with metal fatigue. I was mortified. Not because the bike was broken but the fact that I would have to go home and tell my parents that I had just broken the best gift that they had ever given me. I blubbed like a baby, but my mum shrugged it off and consoled me. I knew that there was no way that I would be getting a replacement. School started again, and on my return from my first day back there in the front room was a BRAND NEW RALLY GRIFTER. I just could not believe my eyes. I was exactly the same as the one that all of my friends had. With the gear shift lever in in front of the seat and everything. THAT was the best present I have ever had. Not because it was the "in thing" and cool. But because I knew that my mother must have sacrificed something very serious to have got it for me.

21-12-06, 09:23 PM	#22
netsurfer Guest Posts: n/a	That was the chopper, the Grifter had a twistgrip gearchange on the handlebars :P :P I don't know if I could narrow it down to one "best" pressie as my parents really busted themselves to make sure I had a great christmas every year. All taken for granted at the time too Pete

21-12-06, 09:46 PM	#24
philipMac Guest Posts: n/a	Did you ever get Tecnic Lego? Savage stuff altogether.

21-12-06, 11:27 PM	#26
Razor Guest Posts: n/a	I got a frisbee one crimbo, brand new it was to. Apart from that it was always second hand stuff from the market. My brother got a 10 speed racer one year, but that was only because my step dad got it in the back of the transit while the owner stepped into the woods for a leak.

22-12-06, 01:29 AM	#27
philipMac Guest Posts: n/a	Razor, was your Old man called Del Boy, and your uncle called Rodney, and did you motor about the place in a Robin Reliant by any chance?

22-12-06, 06:56 AM	#29
Warren Guest Posts: n/a	i recon it was this

22-12-06, 12:45 PM	#30
Ceri JC Guest Posts: n/a	Mark's story is lovely. As you say, it's the memories rather than the presents themselves that are so precious. My favourite is getting a bucket of smarties and a sit on digger with a crane you could move. The memory of tipping the bucket of smarties over the floor and scooping them up and dropping them using the digger is one of the best of my life.