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22 August 2007

"LOT OF POKEMON CARDS THAT MY KIDS TRIED TO SNEAK BY ME"

post by: bunnyfire at: 08:30 | 16 comments

That's very, very funny.

posted by mike9322 22 August | 09:06

haha! Thanks for that. I tried to visit her blog, but google seems to be freaking out on blogspot today - this is the third blogspot blog I've unsuccessfully tried to visit.

posted by taz 22 August | 09:17

oh, well. I might as well put the url here, in case I remember to check back later: mom2my6pack.blogspot.com.

posted by taz 22 August | 09:19

Yeah, blogger's down. Grrrr.

posted by mygothlaundry 22 August | 09:25

definitely a case where the writing bumped the amount the cards are going for, I don't know jack about pokemon playing cards but she's made some money off her writing on this go.

posted by edgeways 22 August | 09:26

OH that's hilarious, bunnyfire. Thanks.

posted by gaspode 22 August | 09:36

Her blog's back up.

She's hilarious.

posted by bunnyfire 22 August | 10:29

I'm having kids vicariously through this woman.

Thankfully that means never actually having to change a diaper.

posted by desjardins 22 August | 11:25

It's a good thing she's got a sense of humor. But then again, vagina: it's not a clown car

posted by plinth 22 August | 12:42

Kids. They're a great comfort to you in your old age, and they help you reach it twice as quickly.

posted by essexjan 22 August | 12:52

Who gets the unsavory task of calling Dave Barry and telling him he's been replaced?

Seriously - I hope she can spin this into something "real" - she's funny as hell.

posted by Triode 22 August | 13:31

I remember those families from when I was a cashier. "two-carters" is what we called them. Said that and every other casher would know we were dealing with someone who took half an hour to tell you paper or plastic because they were too busy with "no you can't have thatput that down what do you want let go of your sister don't put that in thecart when your father gets home please let mommy pay and we can go wait until we get home take your sister to the bathroom" type stuff.

Around then I decided having kids was most likely not for me.

posted by kellydamnit 22 August | 17:44

Does anyone read the posts down here?

I don't have the time to go get the link but if you go to her blog and read the very first post, she sold an ordinary freaking baseball for something like $1,200. What. The. Hell. Someone paid her over a thousand dollars for an ordinary baseball because he/she thought her story was funny. 0_o

Her writing is kind of cute in small doses, but I'm not finding it as uproarious as so many of the eBay commenters have made it out to be; I was expecting a lot more. Still, she seems to have a lot of fans, and a lot of extra bank.

posted by iconomy 22 August | 23:44

i don't see the big deal either except that she has found an audience that is apparently starved for someone "just like them" to "speak for them".
i'm really glad i'm not one of them but good for her.
i don't think i'll ever find that for me but that's why i write, for me.

posted by ethylene 23 August | 00:49

I bailed halfway through. Does she ever get to the cards?

posted by bmarkey 23 August | 01:26

Gotta go to my first link for the card rant.

And I think this is something that you have to have kids of your own to truly appreciate.

(She'd hate me. I had three, close in age, and they NEVER treated me like this in the store.)

posted by bunnyfire 23 August | 08:33

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