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Kid's Videogame Nothing but "Redneck S---"

Posted by JeanneSager

Disclaimer: This post is not racist and has no gripe against men with mullets (because who doesn't want a party in the back) or farmer's tans.

Now that that's done. How would you like it if your kid spent his hard-earned (from Gram) Christmas money at the store, and all he ended up with was redneck you-know-what?

That's what happened to a Consumerist reader, whose son went to Wal-Mart and bought what he thought was the new Electronic Arts game, Madden 09.

Only instead of a disc he could slip into his shiny white XBox, inside there was a CDR with the words "Redneck S--t" (see, the disclaimer stands). The letter writer says he called the store, and they're supposed to make good on the screw-up.

My question - what would you do? Grab the thing and run horrified away from your kid? Do you use this as a teaching moment (stealing's wrong m'kay) or simply get indignant and let 'em see you really pissed?

Source/Image: Consumerist

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Comments

 

Sam said:

"My question - what would you do? Grab the thing and run horrified away from your kid? Do you use this as a teaching moment (stealing's wrong m'kay) or simply get indignant and let 'em see you really pissed?"

You are really a bad blogger. The kid did not steal the video game, he bought it, and there was a different disk inside. What would you do? Return it, like a normal human being. What is there here that makes this into something that needs to be a "teaching moment"? Why would someone need to run away horrified? Why would someone need to get indignant? There was a screw up, it's not anyone's fault who bought the game; you just return it.

January 27, 2009 10:44 PM
 

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) said:

Unless it's a really good CD, then you say "sorry kid" and rock out ...

January 28, 2009 10:53 AM
 

JeanneSager said:

Sam: The kid didn't steal, but the person who put the Redneck CD in there clearly did!

January 28, 2009 11:41 AM
 

Trace said:

Sam can too read. haha. ;)

I think I have like 200 of the Redneck Shit disks at my house. Seems like all of us with mullets make 'em.

This is a Classic, Ms. Sager! A Classic!

January 29, 2009 12:19 PM

About JeanneSager

Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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