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Jun. 18th, 2006 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azdesertroseSo yesterday I took my daughter and two of her friends to the mall for lunch and to shop for a birthday gift for a friend of theirs and to the cinema to see "The Lake House" (which was a cute little film, if you don't take it too seriously). One of the friends is a school mate; the other is a former school mate and church youth friend.
The girls were laughing because they bought Legos for the birthday gift, for a boy who is turning 14. They were just amused by the thought of a 14-year-old boy still liking to play with Legos.
I laughed. I know men in their 30s who could receive similar toys for their birthdays and would love it to death.
We had a discussion in the car after the movie, ranging from time paradoxes to Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett and into general geekiness. The school mate said something about being a geek and being damn proud of it. I laughed and said that the older you get, the less of a "problem" it is to be a little nerdy.
The girls were laughing because they bought Legos for the birthday gift, for a boy who is turning 14. They were just amused by the thought of a 14-year-old boy still liking to play with Legos.
I laughed. I know men in their 30s who could receive similar toys for their birthdays and would love it to death.
We had a discussion in the car after the movie, ranging from time paradoxes to Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett and into general geekiness. The school mate said something about being a geek and being damn proud of it. I laughed and said that the older you get, the less of a "problem" it is to be a little nerdy.
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Date: 2006-06-20 12:14 am (UTC)Toys are ALWAYS an approprite gift for men. Of any age.
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Date: 2006-06-20 03:59 am (UTC)That is too funny, and too true!
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Date: 2006-06-20 09:22 pm (UTC)I can build all the Thunderbirds and Enteprise from Lego
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Date: 2006-06-22 02:20 pm (UTC)You had to tell that story
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Date: 2006-06-24 12:29 pm (UTC)I'm not telling you!
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