• Chozo
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    71 day ago

    My parents used to get so mad at me for poaching the batteries from all the remotes.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      1023 hours ago

      My mom got so frustrated at how often I needed batteries for my walkman, my Gameboy, my other toys, and my little stereo I won at the library, that she replaced all of our batteries with a bunch of rechargeables she bought in bulk. All my friends were so jealous

      • @[email protected]
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        511 hours ago

        See…was the other way round for me. My mum had a crippling Tetris addiction when I was 7. So much so that I’d get home from school and every battery in the house would be dead. That year for Christmas all I asked for was batteries.
        To be clear, it was my Gameboy and my copy of Tetris…