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[ SECRET POST #3896 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3896 ⌋

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[Me Before You (film/novel)]

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[Star Trek TOS]

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[Persona 5]

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[Andy Brennan and Lucy Moran from Twin Peaks]

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[David Bowie, "The Man Who Fell to Earth"]

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[Broadchurch]

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Probably my phone.

My 1966 Mustang. Two wrecks and an engine fire. I also smoked in it. I was young and stupid and really should not have had a car that nice.

I overcooked a gorgeous piece of salmon once, cost a pretty penny and I just wrecked it. I will NEVER take a phone call when cooking salmon again, haha!

My laptop. Wasn't a super high-end flashy one or anything but I saved up my wages for a good while to buy it. Then had a drunken argument with my partner and was so pissed off I insisted on sleeping on the floor in the spare room. Which didn't have a working light so I didn't realise until morning that at some point I'd knocked a whole glass of milk onto it. Made the following morning even more miserable than it would've been.

This really fancy calculator my dad had when I was a kid. I was playing around with it and I dropped it.

Although when I was still a kid I believed for years that I had ruined our old car because I turned the radio on and drained the battery. Finally my dad told me that was not why we got rid of the car.

The calculator was on me though.

Edited 2017-09-03 22:29 (UTC)

Expensive as in priceless, with a happy ending:

When I was 12, my mother's good friend Rose (born in 1915) loaned me the clothing that her mother had worn when she immigrated from Italy to America at the turn of the century, so I could wear it for Halloween. I wore it to school and then out for trick-or-treating, and then because I was lazy, after I took it off that night I just draped it over my desk instead of hanging it up. Right on top of an uncapped marker. The blouse now had a very large ink stain on the back, about the size of my palm. I freaked out, my mother freaked out, we took it to a few dry cleaners but nobody wanted to risk cleaning such an old garment. Eventually we had to fess up to Rose -- I don't remember her reaction (maybe my mom told her for me?), but I just remember having to rake her leaves to make up to her. She never mentioned it again and always stayed friendly with me. I felt terrible about this for years -- it was one of those memories that would hit me out of nowhere and make me flinch bodily like I had just walked into a spiderweb.

The funny thing is that when Rose died about 10 years later and we were gathered with her family at a home memorial service telling stories about her, my mom brought up the ink stain on the blouse and how nice Rose had been about it, and her daughter and granddaughter said, "What do you mean? There's no stain on that blouse." I said it was on the back, so maybe they hadn't seen it, but they insisted that they had just recently seen the blouse when they were going through Rose's possessions and there was no stain anywhere on the blouse. Rose was a really handy woman and had probably worked some magic to remove the stain, and just never told me or my mom. Hearing that the blouse wasn't ruined after all was like receiving absolution!

My car. :/ Granted it was 14 years old, but it still had a lot of life in it if I hadn't totaled it.

My teeth, if that counts? I got drunk, tripped, and smashed out one of the front ones. It cost $5500 to get it replaced with an implant. Haven't drank much since, though.

Ouuuuchhh! Poor you - that sucks AND it's expensive.

Left my phone on the edge of the sink while handwashing clothes last year. And this year, I was lungeing across the room to answer the phone with "this is (location), we're out of eclipse glasses, sorry" and knocked my grandfather's binoculars that I was turning into an eclipse projector off a book cart. Only fractured one lens, so the projector still worked, and that grandpa is long dead and was also an asshole (he used the binoculars to spy on his neighbors, including, apparently, when they were changing.

Probably my E-Reader. Didn't realize how fragile those screens were.

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