Remember this?! I don't really know why I chose this for today's Flashback Friday....I guess it was because I was thinking about my mom, and how she just bought my niece and nephew the xbox 360 w/ kinect.
I was in 4th grade when I got this. I remember I wanted one. BAD. I was a pretty good kid, did what I was told, etc. etc. Growing up with a single parent and another sibling, it would be pretty ridiculous of me to ask for something like a NINTENDO. I also can't remember if I actually asked for it, or if she just knew how bad I wanted it. One day, when my mom came home from work she had a big plastic bag for me to open. In it was the Nintendo system like the one shown above with Super Mario Bros plus Duck Hunt and a gun...(mine was orange). HOLY COW! Unfortunately, that was the very first time that I had to bring home a quiz for my mom to sign for me to bring back to school to my teacher BECAUSE I GOT AN F!!!! Ah man! Really?? Really... I remember it clearly....It was a 10 word vocabulary quiz that I BOMBED....and here I am with that nugget of information, and I had already seen the green green grass of super mario bros in my future!!! It was terrible. I cried and cried and cried...my mom thought my reaction was a little weird, but I was carrying the guilt of my quiz and didn't want the Nintendo to go away! Ha! It's amazing how certain events seem so earth shattering at the time. I guess I need to remind myself of that story every now and then- she signed the quiz and I was playing with it that night!!!
