ImHereToCivilize

After the entire circus was over, my parents drove me home, and I promptly passed out and napped for like 3 hours. My mom walked into my room and woke me up by playing with my hair, and told me there was a truck outside for me. What happened next was the most epic UPS delivery in the history of children.

I would be flat out lying if I said anything but the loot being the best part. As far as worst, I would say that suddenly being the target for all my classmates to attempt to get something out of me. I had a good group of friends at that age, but all at once, I became the center of attention within my grade at my school. All my classmates wanted me to get them something specific, it was like the scene in the movie The Beach where everyone comes up to leo and gives them their list of what they want when he goes to the mainland. I remember saying ok a lot, but fully thinking to myself "none of this is happening." I took care of my buddies with a few choice items, of course.

I imagine it was akin to what winning the lottery as an adult must feel like, except much more muted. I became acutely aware of who my real friends were, and who just had their hand out. It was a shitty thing to realize as a kid, but that wisdom has carried with me since then.

dafuq

Haha no worries. I've had people say nearly the same thing to my face upon hearing the story if it ever comes up. And my friends LOVE to bring it up, especially if we're drunk and around people we just met. Not always terrible to hear one of my buddies lead me up with a cute girl at the bar (at least if she's our age or very close) with "did you used to watch Nickelodeon when you were a kid?" It's just the gift that keeps on giving.

Tell him no hard feelings.

Yes. My family and I were shocked to discover how much they slant the whole event to give the kid the advantage. As many surely know, Toys'R'Us is a pretty large store. What they ended up doing, was literally rearranging the shelves/sections so that I could go down the isles containing the things I wanted while covering as little ground as possible. This meant completely transforming the barbie isle into the action figure/transformer isle and the like. The final set up was a row of isles that I could basically rush through, make a u turn a the end, and head right down the next one. To make this happen, I was able to scout out the layout of the store with the emcee of the event (Mike O'Malley, host of "Guts"), who ended up giving me lots of tips and tricks of how take the most advantage of the situation.