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What's the worst present you've ever received? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My mother told family I was into geology which I wasn't, so for my ninth bitrhday I got books about rocks and the hugest fucking hammer.

The hammer felt a little bit cool until I tried it and it was completely useless on the granit which is the only rock in the region, the only thing happening was leaving marks on the stone and shoot mini splinters in the eyes. Totally unuseful for anything else.

Like this but bigger (in my memory, i was only 9), and also cheaper (black head, cheap wood handle):

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Seems like someone took "the children yearn for the mines" a bit too seriously