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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zombie Aladdin" data-source="post: 145236" data-attributes="member: 4242"><p>I hear about these stories, by the way, of people, when they were children, receiving quarters from their parents or somesuch at a supermarket, drug store, convenience store, laundromat, etc. while the parents do what they're supposed to do, and I feel jealous. My parents always insisted I stay by their sides at all times when I was neither at home nor at school, and my dad rarely gave me money to spend on things as frivolous as games. My dad actually kept me on an extremely tight financial leash when I was in my single-digit years: He gave me roughly $1 every 6 months, so even a 25-cent game was a big deal, an amount I could not lose. (The idea was that he did not want me spending money, presumably as a means of restricting my actions.) If I was at an arcade, he provided me $1 if he provided me anything at all while accompanying me around, and once the dollar was consumed, I had to leave, so pinball was out of the question. If he was in a stingy mood, he just told me to just entertain myself watching the others play, if he allowed me into the arcade at all. (It's not that he thought these arcades were immoral or whatnot--he just never understood why people liked playing games so much.)</p></blockquote><p></p>

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