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This is an earnest plea I wrote to my relatives regarding my Christmas wishes:
I had an epiphany today. The epiphany, the revelation, the sacred vision that was given to me: I need an iPhone. That's right. I can't deny it anymore, brush it off, pretend that it doesn't exist while I quietly mourn inside. It is now at the top of my otherwise HD-movie-laden wish list. I pass it along to you now, in the hopes that one of you, or all of you together, may be so gracious as to grant me the small, high-tech, groundbreaking, revolutionary object of my affection.
Sincerely, Ryan
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You should offer incentives... first spot(s) on the speed dial goes to the person/people listed on the "from:" spot on the gift tag... offer to call the person weekly/daily/more frequently than you do... etc..
If someone gets it for you don't forget the high monthly costs to keep it. Several of my friends forgot that part when they bought it.
Thanks for the suggestions. And I definitely have the monthly bill in mind.
I think anyone that obsessed would have taken all the details/side affects into consideration!
But then, if they get truly obsessed (this _is_ an apple product, after all), consideration may get tossed to the wayside in the wake of appleness. so they may still have had a valid reason for warning. not that anyone reaching that point would be deterred by it though.
this conversation is ruining the beauty of his letter.....
Read my post as well about this...I'm right there with you brother!
You have some serious scrooges reading your Christmas list. lol I say that once in awhile, everyone needs that one special gift that is neither essential, practical, or especially cost-efficient. As long as we don't make a regular habit of buying everything that suits our fancy, I think it's healthy to our overworked, underpaid psyches to experience those once-in~-a-blue-moon splurges. Otherwise, earthly life becomes one long road of going to work only to pay the bills, and a constant exercise in pretending, for the sake of our biblical teaching, to be satisfied walking, every single day, in the "safe" gray area of life. Jesus IS enough, but I don't think it's an either/or issue. I mean, come on, it's an iphone that you want, and it's Christmas. Is a good, hard-working Christian young man who has never done anything but make his friends and family proud not allowed to have a childlike dream of finding something extraordinary and shiney waiting for him under the tree on Christmas morn? Personally, Ryan, I hope you never lose the ability to dream of such things. As long as you're putting in an honest day's work for an honest day's pay, you're taking care of your family's needs, and honoring your tithing committments, it's o.k. to hope for a few extras.
By the way, I mean ZERO offense to those who offered the voice of reason. I just thought I would help Ryan out by offering support for the other side of the debate. :) How 'bout it, Father Michael? Won't you get your baby boy an iphone? LOL
Hear him calling
Hear him calling
Won't you get him a phone
And have it under the tree
When he comes home?
LOLOL
And did you get the shiny?
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