My Adventure of Being Bamboozled

The rugged chap with the charming personality has a mother.

She was like anyone’s mother. Sometimes they got along well. Sometimes they don’t. They were pretty close as mother and son go. Well, considering that they were only 4 in the family, 5 if you included his wife. (Note: You can be pretty sure the wife is smugly married to him as who wouldn’t be, when you’re married to a rugged and charming chap like he was, but thats another story all together.)

So one day his mother went on a trip to Japan. The rugged chap with the charming personality thought that was wonderful as she was going to place where it was a haven and a technological smörgåsbord of Information Technology thingamajigs. All at very cheap prices.

But the rugged chap with the charming personality didn’t want to burden his mother, being that not only he was rugged and charming, he was also very nice and understanding too.

‘Buy something nice, but make sure it was cheap because I don’t want to burden you,’ he had told his mother.

Fast forward a week later, when his mother returned from the trip, she called him, ‘Come and see me, and choose which Swatch you want.’

‘Oh, wow.. a Swatch,’ exclaimed the rugged chap with the charming personality. ‘I’m quite too old, albeit rugged and charming, to be running around with a Swatch, but then again, a free watch is still a free watch,’ he thought.

So, there he was all excited as his mother had bought him a nice Swatch along with other tidbits and snacks that those Japanese were famous for. No, the rugged chap with the charming personality is not going to post the pictures of the snacks as this is not THAT type of blog, mind you.

‘What did you buy,’ he asked.

‘Oh, I bought this this new Canon Cybershot camera,’ she replied.

‘Cool’, he and his brother replied. ‘Thats the newest model, it’s not even out in Malaysia yet’

‘It’s just RM900.’ his mother explained.

‘I wanted to buy you two either a PS3 or a PSP, those two are cheaper. You can get them at around RM200-RM300. But I didn’t know which model you wanted, because there were hundreds of them there, blue, black, white, red, so I decided to buy this camera for myself instead.’

Now, if you had opened the dictionary, and searched the word ‘dumbstruck’ at that very moment, you would probably find a picture of him and his brother under it. And I very much suspect that if you searched under either, ’shocked’, ‘amazed’ , ‘astonished’, ‘astounded’, ’startled’, ‘bamboozled’ or ‘jolted’, you would probably find them under there too.

After 10 minutes of being under that state, they both started to cry for another 10. A point to note that, it is OK for rugged and charming men to cry but in only two instances; Your football team either win or lose a cup final or your mother didn’t buy a PSP at dirt cheap price.

Yes, the rugged chap with the charming personality can now claim that his mother went to Japan and all he got was this lousy watch.

~ by 9 on May 26, 2008.