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| Woman Auctions Father's Ghost on EBay | |
| 2004-12-05 | |
| EFL and nuggets. HOBART, Ind. - A woman's effort to assuage her 6-year-old son's fears of his grandfather's ghost by selling it on eBay has drawn more than 34 bids with a top offer of $78. WTF? Mary Anderson said she placed her father's ``ghost'' on the online auction site after her son, Collin, said he was afraid the ghost would return someday. Anderson said Collin has avoided going anywhere in the house alone since his grandfather died last year. In a description titled ``This isn't a joke,'' Anderson told Collin's story on eBay: ``I always thought it was just normal kid fears until a few months ago he told me why he was so scared. He told me 'Grandpa died here, and he was mean. His ghost is still around here!''' Lest the boy's fears scare off potential bidders, Anderson added, ``My dad was the sweetest most caring man you'd ever meet" Couldn't resist posting this - too wierd
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| Posted by:Frank G |
| #5 Beware what you tell your grandchildren. I told my 5 year old grandson that Cheerios were donut seeds and the next week he was outside planting the whole box. My daughter was mad at me for a month and made me tell him the truth. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-12-05 7:19:35 PM |
| #4 The grampaw made the grandkid tidy up his room. Bad, meanie grampaw! How insensitive! What if his ghosts returns and made the kid to tidy up the room again???!!! |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2004-12-05 5:08:25 PM |
| #3 You got that one right PD. Lay it on RB, not your yuts. Kids are born stupid and immediately regress for 18 years, all we can do is slow it down. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-05 4:33:13 PM |
| #2 Weird, indeed. Somewhere along the line, at some unremarkable moment, someone fed this poor kid some bullshit. Soaked up every drop. This is one of those examples of where it's irresponsible and dangerous (blowback is a bitch!) to feed inane ideas, your opinions, biases, fears, the usual half-baked BS we all carry around at times, etc. into the sponges that are our children. Give them the tools to think clearly and critically for themselves and then STFU, heh, is the best path. Poor kid. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-05 1:07:09 PM |
| #1 Now that's cuckoo. |
| Posted by: Korora 2004-12-05 11:58:42 AM |