Shame on The Universe   Poetry and Thoughts on the Universe

Getting rid of some bigger items today. Also, I don’t know if it was just me, but does every young guy buy tons of swords and knives? Because I had way too many of those. I think I’ve gotten rid of most of them now though.

The top item is the Nerf Mega Centurion. Nerf decided to big guns with big darts, and I bought it to check it out. It is pretty huge, and reminds me a sniper rifle from Mass Effect. If I were a cosplayer I might keep it and paint it up. But I’ll donate it, and some little kid can feel like a bad ass.

The shorter sword is a $60 cheap pirate’s cutlass. I got it from the mall because I was trying to learn to fence and thought it looked cool. I lied to my mom and said it was a gift from my friends so that she wouldn’t be mad. You know, because that’s what teenagers do. My brother reluctantly took it off of my hands.

It’s a pretty similar story for the sword below it. But it wasn’t the sword that I originally wanted. When I was trying to buy the one I actually wanted, the lady wouldn’t sell it to me. I still to this day have no idea why. I had my card out, and was basically begging for her to sell it. She finally told me to come back in a few days if I still wanted it. Instead, I went to the shop in the mall 2 doors down, bought the one above, and slowly walked back past her store to show that she lost an eager sale. I’d like to think she was trying to save me from wasting my money, but that lady was weird and her shop closed down a few months later. My brother took this one off my hands as well.

The knife on the left was a small knife necklace. The idea behind it is to always have a concealed weapon on your person. I totally didn’t buy it because I watched an episode of Deadliest Warrior, and one of the “experts” suggested it. If I were some rough and tumble knife fighter roaming the world right what has been put wrong, it’d be useful. But I’m not, therefore it isn’t. It got donated.

The last two things are both Fitbit Charge HRs. The band on this model kept peeling, and you cannot replace it when it does. They work fine, and it is just a cosmetic issue. I’m not sure why I kept them around though, as I got a smartwatch once the warranty wore out. I think I hoped I’d come up with something cool to do with them. But I have no idea what that would’ve been. Someone in my family probably wants a Fitbit. Otherwise, they can go to the trash.

444 items to go.

– Shaman