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« on: November 26, 2019, 01:14:42 PM »
I have a newborn twins story!
When I'd go visit family in Kansas in the summer we'd always go to this AMAZING antique store to look for ponies. One summer I found Nibbles, but there was no sign of Dibbles. Over Christmas that year we were again visiting family and my favorite uncle took all us kids up there to look around. I found Dibbles! She was in an antique crane game machine with a bunch of other random small trinkets. Favorite uncle asked the store owner if he could take out the pony for me, and the man insisted the entire thing had to be bought together, to the tune of like $1000! Uncle insisted that was ridiculous, plus what was someone in the market for a crane game going to do with a plastic horse besides throw it away? The owner was adamant, and finally my uncle said, "Fine. I hope a plastic horse is worth being banned from my restaurant." Uncle owned the most popular place in town (an institution since 1967!), so the owner fished out the pony and gave her to me for a buck.
In retrospect it wasn't cool for Uncle to threaten the guy over a pony, but I was like 12 and at the time it was awesome.
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