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[โ€“] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

My sister gifted me the third book of a fantasy trilogy series once.
I never read or got the first two books.

Also, when I was little, my grandma (who hated me with passion) bought me a pink bike just to piss me off, because she thought a boy wouldn't ever like that color. I rode that bike until I was too tall to use it and every time she saw me enjoying that thing she was furious. :)

My grandma once gifted me volume 21 of a manga I didn't even own a single volume of. All she knew was that I like that japanese comic thing so she bought a random one at the book store.

[โ€“] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it was Ender's Game, you might be better off starting with book two...

For their sake i hope it wasn't, Ender's Game is possibly the greatest example of deservedly famous book 1 and equally deservedly forgotten rest of the series.

[โ€“] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why did she hate you with such passion ?

And why didnt she think about spray paint ?

[โ€“] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

She always called me "the bastard" because I had a different father than my sisters.
That was enough of a reason to hate me, I guess. ๐Ÿคท

It was definitely intentional of her to gift me a "girls" bike and she didn't expect me to actually like it.
She also pulled stunts like gifting me and my sisters money on Christmas, but I got 10โ‚ฌ and they got 50โ‚ฌ each. My mum always equally split the whole money afterwards.

What an asshole

Your mom did right

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The propensity for you and your grandma to both act out of spite for one another is impressively high. Its good to have proof you're related

[โ€“] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh, you're mistaken. I enjoyed that bike because it was a good bike. It just wasn't "boy-colored", but I didn't mind.

[โ€“] Zacryon@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gendered colours are stupid anyway.

Exactly, and I was way too young to actually care about colors anyway.

Especially when you consider the arbitriness of it. Pink used to be the color for baby boys.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but surely you knew how she'd react if you rode it in front of her

[โ€“] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dude, I was a child. I didn't even have the mental capacity to spite my own grandma. I saw a cool bike, didn't mind the color and rode it, that's it.

Psychoanalyzing people on the internet is stupid.

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

No! You will take the judgement I gave you to your grave!