Anyway, I have a couple of rules...
- 1. if it comes to me wrong-side-out, it gets washed, dried, folded, and returned that way
- 2. if I find money -- it's mine
- 3. I don't check pockets
Well, Zander has a habit of taking his favorite (best) Poke*Mon cards to school to play with his friends. Unfortuantely, he left several of his highest point cards in his pants pocket one day, and I washed them. Needless to say, they didn't fare very well (better than the two phones I have washed, but that is a note for another day).
Upon me informing him of this, he was crushed --- while he stopped short of crying, he did say something to the effect of "Dad, other than watching TV, my PokeMon cards are the only things I really love to do." Now (notwithstanding the social commentary about TV), that kind of broke my heart. I bought him a couple new packs of cards, but -- like Forrest says, it's like a box of chocolates -- I can't simply replace the lost cards. You buy the pack, and get what you get.
Now... back to the story... Zander and his buddies actually play the Pokemon game (which I like, cuz it is better than some creepy 30-year old dude collecting these cards and living in his mom's basement). Each card has a point value -- the lowest being 10, the highest any of Zander and his friends had ever seen was 180. But there was a rumor of a 200 point card! VERY RARE...
So with a little help from Ebay, I began the task of redemption...
Step 1: Find the card, and order it :
Wait a week... and get it...
Next, run to your local Target to buy a new pack of PokeMon cards, an Xacto-knife, and super glue...
Begin the careful operation of extracting the pack of cards from the exterior blister pack (why the hell are these things packed twice???) -- then opening the pack of cards. Note, these are so tightly packed, I had to remove a card from the pack to replace it with Wailord (the 200 pointer):
And finally glue everything back together...
Looks like new again...
And finally give it to him (he eventually figured out the ruse... but it took a bit of time)
