Ask Lemmy

Easy! because it just actually occurred. I'm a misanthrope, but even misanthropes need friends.

When I was five or six, I met a guy in 1st grade Sunday School and we have been friends ever since.

A couple of weeks ago, I celebrated my 60th birthday, my wife took me to the Kentucky Derby Museum to start my birthday off with a tour of Churchill Downs. As I was perusing the gift store prior to our tour, I heard a voice behind me "what are you doing here!" I turned around to see my friend of 55 years. He and his wife had flown in to celebrate with me.

An extraordinary gift.

can't deceide amongst these;

• when I was around 3 years old, my mom gave me a strange hot pink plastic toy hair dryer that ran on 1 AA battery. It had a drawing of a strange medusa-like girl on it. I'm a dude. I have no idea, how or why did she got that for me as a present, but i fucking loved it. so much so it's tiny momentary switch that turned it on completely broke my thumb. it made me really happy. (probably because my parents worked a lot so I was put into a nursery, and seeing my mom coming there for grabbing me at the end of the day always made me happy. so I maybe connected the toy hair dryer with this)

• around 12 years old (it was around 2008-2009), a family friend gave me a Psion Series 3A palmtop computer (a retro handheld 16bit computer from the mid-to-end 90's) with few SSD cartridges (storage). previously it was used by the police force and on those cartridges I've found several police work related softwares written for the device. It was a special gift, I loved that machine. I learned a lot about programming on it with its strange programming language called OPL. Had a complete manual for it in my native language. It had not the best keys, but typed countless of lines of code on it.

A Nintendo 64!!!!!!!

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My best friend knows that I collect watches and that Alice in wonderland is one of my favorite fictional universes. She commissioned a silver pocket watch with the white rabbit on the front which also serves as an inside joke between us. It's the most thoughtful gift I've ever received and I love it.

Do inheritances count?

My dog, my best friend

Life.

“And the worst?” I hear you ask…

Also, life.

Glasses to correct colorblindness. Mine is mild. I didn't even want the glasses. Until about half a second after putting them on.

40th birthday twofer. Mom gave me a Kenner power droid still in its packaging that she'd saved since my childhood. One of my friends followed that with the rancor in its box.

A Nintendo Wii with Super Mario Galaxy, it was the first game console I ever owned.

A watch, when I was 15.

Chair.

A huge box of used Fisher Technik components. I was 10 at the time and these things kept my phantasy busy for years.

Currently a tie between RAM for my computer that had only around ~4mb worth to begin with or the switch I got from a pawn shop.

An Amy Lee poster when I was a kid was the greatest present I got for my birthday. I also got a new PlayStation that year, that was my second favorite.