Christmas is almost here. What was your best Christmas experience ever and what would you like now.

[steved5600]

Best Christmas was as a kid. I"m old so bare with me. My dad and granddad built a table on Christmas eve and Put a full train set on it with all kinds of scene stuff and it was there on Christmas Day. They had to have been up all night. Must have been some prefab involved. Never found out how the did it and kept it secret.

I want Santa to bring me a VW APV and a New Video card and Call of Duty Black ops II. Just got bit by the gaming bug again. LOL Hard to believe. I remember Pong and spending money at the arcade.

 

[RoseB]

Hey steve when I get my new xbox you better play some COD zombies with me!!! Ah best christmas. It would've been 3 years ago both of my kids having a blast and it was my son's first christmas. Plus I got to eat all of his candy since he was a baby and all lol.

 

[steved5600]

Right now I'm making due with COD MW 3. Man I can sure tell it has been a while. Trying to remember how to use my Nostromo pad.

 

[zapped]

My dad moved the family out to Oklahoma City when I was kid because there wasn't any work building houses in Virginia at the time.

There wasnt much going on in Oklahoma City either so as a result we were living across from the Cherokee Indian Reservation in a very poor neighborhood and didn't have any money at all for Christmas.My uncle was a truck driver and he got on the cb radio and asked local truckers for help.

Santa Claus showed up at our house on Christmas Eve in an Eighteen Wheeler with presents and food and even a tree. My Mom was so grateful that she was crying and even my Dad had tears in his eyes.

Thanks for the thread, Im smiling from ear to ear now and glad I had a chance to share.

 

[RoseB]

See you get into gaming an need to find a PV that you can vape without having to put down the controller. Infact that is what I want for Christmas, because all it takes is one puff.....then some turd kills you in multi player or a stampede of zombies takes you down.

 

[steved5600]

My dad moved the family out to Oklahoma City when I was kid because there wasnt any work building houses in Virginia at the time.

There was much going on in Oklahoma City either so as a result we were living across from the Cherokee Indian Reservation in a very poor neighborhood and didnt have any money at all for Christmas.My uncle was a truck driver and he got on the cb radio and asked local truckers for help.

Santa Claus showed up at our house on Christmas Eve in an Eighteen Wheeler with present and food and even a tree. My Mom was so grateful that she was crying and even my Dad had tears in his eyes.

Thanks for the thread, Im smiling from ear to ear now and glad I had a chance to share.

That sounds great. That is a good one. My mom and dad did not have a lot of money in those days never figured out how they could do that stuff. I think they saved up for like 9 months of the year. Those memories are hard to beat. You got me all misty thinking about that. Sometimes it's not so much what and how much but that they managed to do it. Thanks for sharing.

 

[HoinkDouglas]

i was coming in to say a provari mini with a christmas tree colored LED... but as a kid it was definitely getting the firehouse from ghostbusters that you could pour the slime down the top onto everything

 

[steved5600]

See you get into gaming an need to find a PV that you can vape without having to put down the controller. Infact that is what I want for Christmas, because all it takes is one puff.....then some turd kills you in multi player or a stampede of zombies takes you down.

I'm thinking about a goose nech microphone stand with a remote button for a PV . LOL It's been since COD II since I've played. I forgot how quick that stuff happens. My cat hates it when i get in to that mode. She paws at me to get my attention and I mess up. LOL

 

[zapped]

Now? I dont want much....maybe Emma Stone or Olivia Wilde holding a glass of 100 year old Cognac in one hand and a brand new gold plated Provari with a sold out Zap attached in the other and not much of anything else in between

 

[steved5600]

Oh I almost forgot. I want a Red Rider BB gun. LOL

 

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Just dont shoot Emma cause shes nekkid...lol!

 

[Rocketpunk]

Picture it: Fort Myers Beach, Florida, 1988.

Sears catalog. I'm 9 years old. I find this: http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum...o_of_the_day_84397_ghostbustersprotonpack.jpg

A lump forms in my throat. A butterfly dances in my stomach. I run to my mother. "THIS! I WANT THIS!"

"Well, we'll see..." she said.

Christmas day. I've ripped open every single present given to me. Thundercats, He-Man, Insectoids, M.U.S.C.L.E Men, Transformers, M.A.S.K., Star Wars, G.I. Joe, but... no Proton Pack.

Things are winding down. I like my toys but my grandmother notices I have a long face. "Billy boy, what's the matter?"

"Nothing."

"Something's the matter, what is it?"

"I just... I guess I really wanted a Proton Pack." I honestly teared up.

And then the magic of Christmas happened. My grandmother pulled "A Christmas Story" on me and said, "Hey, wait a minute. What's that? Behind the couch?"

"What?! What's behind the couch?!"

"I think, yeah, I think Santa dropped something!" (I stopped believing in Santa by then, but my heart was in my throat at this point.)

She reaches behind the couch, pulls out a huge box, and hands it to me. I take it like a starving junky and rip the wrapping paper apart. And what do I see... but the GHOSTBUSTERS LOGO!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!

I rip and I rip and I rip AND THERE IT IS!

THE GHOSTBUSTERS PROTON PACK PLAY-KIT!!!!!

I think I did backflips. Well, ok, I didn't do backflips, but oh my goodness, that was an AWESOME Christmas. I played with that thing until the velco straps frayed to pieces.

I got this guy, too! Onionhead! Aka Slimer! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_op33T41CDtU/ShME6ZtKctI/AAAAAAAABr4/wr1eUeJRtT4/s320/OriginalSlimer2a.jpg

 

[RoseB]

LOL males! No shooting any naked movie star's eyes out. Sheesh that gives me an idea..that dude that played Thor he can just stand around holding my pv for me! Oh that would be nice and maybe he could fill the tank and do the dishes

 

[zapped]

lol.....would you settle for Wolverine?

 

[RoseB]

Rocketpunk great story aren't grandma's the best?

 

[RoseB]

lol.....would you settle for Wolverine?

Nope maybe pladimir Putin hmmmm he is such a bad man

 

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Lol is alright...Thats actually me at the Richmond Zombie Walk for the American Heart Association and thats my Provari in my right hand with my Phiniac tank.

I didnt even see the kid beside me dressed at Batman until after the photo.

 

[HoinkDouglas]

i wore the proton pack to school everyday that year. i think i ended up eating the foam tube that came out of the gun. but i didnt cross the streams

 

[Marvin & Sennie]

Best Christmas was when I was in 2nd grade and I got my 1st camera.... that was the only thing good that year... you don't even want to know what I wish for Christmas this year so I will just say... all my kids home for Christmas would be pretty much the most Amazing thing... sigh

 

[Marvin & Sennie]

GREAT STORY!!! My grandparents always got us underwear except the same year I got my 1st camera my grandma got us a subscription to National Geographic.

Picture it: Fort Myers Beach, Florida, 1988.

Sears catalog. I'm 9 years old. I find this: http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum...o_of_the_day_84397_ghostbustersprotonpack.jpg

A lump forms in my throat. A butterfly dances in my stomach. I run to my mother. "THIS! I WANT THIS!"

"Well, we'll see..." she said.

Christmas day. I've ripped open every single present given to me. Thundercats, He-Man, Insectoids, M.U.S.C.L.E Men, Transformers, M.A.S.K., Star Wars, G.I. Joe, but... no Proton Pack.

Things are winding down. I like my toys but my grandmother notices I have a long face. "Billy boy, what's the matter?"

"Nothing."

"Something's the matter, what is it?"

"I just... I guess I really wanted a Proton Pack." I honestly teared up.

And then the magic of Christmas happened. My grandmother pulled "A Christmas Story" on me and said, "Hey, wait a minute. What's that? Behind the couch?"

"What?! What's behind the couch?!"

"I think, yeah, I think Santa dropped something!" (I stopped believing in Santa by then, but my heart was in my throat at this point.)

She reaches behind the couch, pulls out a huge box, and hands it to me. I take it like a starving junky and rip the wrapping paper apart. And what do I see... but the GHOSTBUSTERS LOGO!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!

I rip and I rip and I rip AND THERE IT IS!

THE GHOSTBUSTERS PROTON PACK PLAY-KIT!!!!!

I think I did backflips. Well, ok, I didn't do backflips, but oh my goodness, that was an AWESOME Christmas. I played with that thing until the velco straps frayed to pieces.

I got this guy, too! Onionhead! Aka Slimer! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_op33T41CDtU/ShME6ZtKctI/AAAAAAAABr4/wr1eUeJRtT4/s320/OriginalSlimer2a.jpg