Christmas 2011 Pic's
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Art Oliveri
Roundtable Host 2009
and to you and your family
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Ok, got a Christmas cheapskate story.
I'm a cheapskate. It's just who I am. Fayth got a lot of stuff for Christmas. I'm not stingy, I'm just frugal.
So we are Christmas shopping for some miscellaneous odds and ends at a Catholic Charities store. I spot a decent looking girls Trek bike with a $20 tag on it. Now I used to be a mountain/road biker. In the 90s there was a period of time when I rode an average of 20 miles per day for more than a year. I've always liked the quality of Trek bikes and have owned probably 8-12 of them.
So I bought this girls bike and thought that maybe I could clean it up, tune it up and it would make a nice little bonus Christmas present to replace her aging single gear bike.
One thing it needed was a seat. I started looking up seats and found this:
WARNING, IF YOU OWN THIS BIKE PLEASE STOP USING IT IMMEDIATELY AND BRING IT IN TO YOUR LOCAL TREK DEALER FOR REPLACEMENT.
So I called them and verified that it was indeed recalled. I informed them that I was NOT the original owner and they said it didn't matter.
So last week I dropped off the BLUE bike I got at Catholic Charities and picked up this brand new $319 PINK bike that Fayth got for Christmas morning as a complete surprise.
Merry Christmas to my pocketbook!!!!! $20 bucks!!!!
I'm a cheapskate. It's just who I am. Fayth got a lot of stuff for Christmas. I'm not stingy, I'm just frugal.
So we are Christmas shopping for some miscellaneous odds and ends at a Catholic Charities store. I spot a decent looking girls Trek bike with a $20 tag on it. Now I used to be a mountain/road biker. In the 90s there was a period of time when I rode an average of 20 miles per day for more than a year. I've always liked the quality of Trek bikes and have owned probably 8-12 of them.
So I bought this girls bike and thought that maybe I could clean it up, tune it up and it would make a nice little bonus Christmas present to replace her aging single gear bike.
One thing it needed was a seat. I started looking up seats and found this:
WARNING, IF YOU OWN THIS BIKE PLEASE STOP USING IT IMMEDIATELY AND BRING IT IN TO YOUR LOCAL TREK DEALER FOR REPLACEMENT.
So I called them and verified that it was indeed recalled. I informed them that I was NOT the original owner and they said it didn't matter.
So last week I dropped off the BLUE bike I got at Catholic Charities and picked up this brand new $319 PINK bike that Fayth got for Christmas morning as a complete surprise.
Merry Christmas to my pocketbook!!!!! $20 bucks!!!!
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Chris got me this. I have a wierd family. And I love it!
Doug Rucker
Roundtable Host 2009
Ok, got a Christmas cheapskate story.
I'm a cheapskate. It's just who I am. Fayth got a lot of stuff for Christmas. I'm not stingy, I'm just frugal.
So we are Christmas shopping for some miscellaneous odds and ends at a Catholic Charities store. I spot a decent looking girls Trek bike with a $20 tag on it. Now I used to be a mountain/road biker. In the 90s there was a period of time when I rode an average of 20 miles per day for more than a year. I've always liked the quality of Trek bikes and have owned probably 8-12 of them.
So I bought this girls bike and thought that maybe I could clean it up, tune it up and it would make a nice little bonus Christmas present to replace her aging single gear bike.
One thing it needed was a seat. I started looking up seats and found this:
WARNING, IF YOU OWN THIS BIKE PLEASE STOP USING IT IMMEDIATELY AND BRING IT IN TO YOUR LOCAL TREK DEALER FOR REPLACEMENT.
So I called them and verified that it was indeed recalled. I informed them that I was NOT the original owner and they said it didn't matter.
So last week I dropped off the BLUE bike I got at Catholic Charities and picked up this brand new $319 PINK bike that Fayth got for Christmas morning as a complete surprise.
Merry Christmas to my pocketbook!!!!! $20 bucks!!!!
Thats is great Tony...can;t beat that.
BlueBliss
New member
Understatement of the century!
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Kyle you're not supposed to agree with me. You're supposed to say some thing PC like "Every family is weird in their own way." 
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Doug Rucker
Roundtable Host 2009
I was going to say every family is blessed in there own way and who are we to question the blessing. You are a blessed man Tony.
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Thanks Doug, I am sure you will be blessed for saying that!
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Doug Rucker
Roundtable Host 2009
Thanks Doug, I am sure you will be blessed for saying that!
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that was actually my whole point,,,lol
Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
Doug, Looks like you had a happy pink Christmas too. I hope they don't go from pink to black like a lot of the girls do. I'm not looking forward to seeing Fayth going out with black makeup and black fingernails. Let's encourage them to STAY WITH PINK!
And I can't let Fayth see that bike with all that fancy stuff on it. She'll want to move in with you!
And I can't let Fayth see that bike with all that fancy stuff on it. She'll want to move in with you!
Doug Rucker
Roundtable Host 2009
Doug, Looks like you had a happy pink Christmas too. I hope they don't go from pink to black like a lot of the girls do. I'm not looking forward to seeing Fayth going out with black makeup and black fingernails. Let's encourage them to STAY WITH PINK!
And I can't let Fayth see that bike with all that fancy stuff on it. She'll want to move in with you!
Funny thing is she asked if we could take the razor back and get a blue one, said she felt she had to much Pink Stuff. Love kids...and how there minds work.