Tuesday, February 18, 2003


Gumby loves you too

Oliviapuff, you have a fellow situational pun-pal.

For about 2 months now in the Wal-Mart, there's been this keychain Jigglypuff sitting lonely by itself in a sparsely-stocked prize machine thingy. Y'know, the kind where you put in a buck and maneouvre a grabber towards it and 99% of the time you don't catch a damn thing?

Yeah, that thing.

Experience of watching others lose lotsa dough in those things, I stayed as far away from them as possible and to my recollection, I've never myself tried one. If I have, I honestly don't remember it, but I'm certain I lost.

Anyway, when they restocked this thing about a month ago, the Jigglypuff was still there, but shrink-wrapped to some yellow brick thing or something. I checked on it every time we returned to the W-M and I kept wondering if I should try the machine to get my 3rd Jigglypuff but the opportunity never arised. Until tonight.

I was in the Wal-Mart tonight and started getting some nerve shakes and near-blackouts and hard to breathe etc...the kind of thing where if we were in the grocery store, I'd normally just walk right out and into the van. Well, Mom didn't want me to goto the van in the Wal-Mart (which isn't enlightened to my problems) so she said to go sit in the benches out front. I asked if I could try for the Jigglypuff, and after establishing that I had some cash, she said yes.

So I get out there and VERY carefully surveyed the Jigglypuff vs the grabber. There was NO way that grabber was gonna get to it as jammed up to the glass wall- slanted in *just* the wrong way. So rather than sit down and let my nerves overtake me like last night (you don't wanna know- trust me), I decided to keep looking in the machine to see what else was in there just for kicks. I saw a rubber Jar Jar Binks who was supposed to be half-immersed in water (rubber water?). As much as I like Jar Jar, this wasn't a Good Catch in my opinion. After looking a few more times (my eyes were going), I saw something green and slender: a Gumby holding a valentine's heart!

Too funny for words! :-) What's funnier, is that about the same time that I noticed the Jigglypuff at the Wal-Mart, there was some sticker or window thingy for a Gumby at the local FYE. :-D

So after putting in $2 and on my last (4th) try, the Gumby was mine!


Cupid!

Gumby celebrates Valentine's Day


I figured the Gumby was a leftover from the holiday craze :-(, but I'm glad it was there. So Oliviapuff, meet Cupid Gumby! Everyone else, meet the new arrival!!! :-D

And if you'd like the break-down of the 4 tries, here it is: #1 it went somewhere else, #2 it went somewhere else, #3 it knocked Gumby over so I could grab it, #4 I got Gumby! I was trying so hard not to let it grab something I didn't want and since I don't remember operating one of these things for myself, it took me a buck to figure out how to operate the dang thing! Good thing my instincts to "cancel grab" worked...
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