Name a totally useless possession and how you came to acquire it.
This one is tough. I'm finding myself going through my entire personal inventory in my head to find something I own that is completely useless.
Ah! After looking through every cupboard and closet and house, I've found it.
It's a little model car toy. An old, Cruella Deville style car. An "RZ Rod" from Ridemakerz. It's a pretty little car. It can be turned into a remote controlled car, if I were to order the RC chassis from the company. It's actually one of the limited edition versions of the "Rod", even though it's just got the stock sound chip, wheels and rims. It's got a nice orange and black paint job, and I'm pretty sure my old boss gave it to me as part of my "Christmas present" from the company (along with a cool paperweight that has one of the "pirate" rims and wheels in a square of polymer, also a useless object that I own).
I used to work for Ridemakerz, you see. Now that was a fun job! It's just like Build-A-Bear, but instead of building bears, you got to build Remote-control Cars! Oh, it was so much fun! I loved the people I was working with, and the kids who came in were (most of the time) lots of fun to help. It was a great high school job, and it was a damned shame when they decided to close the Appleton branch.
The car serves absolutely no use to me currently, but I'm sure a child will have fun with it someday. It's sitting in its original plastic coverings, with a cardboard base. It's hidden away in the bottom part of the cupboard that I built in my high school cabinetry class.
I hope that it has use one day. But until that day, it's just a piece of pretty plastic sitting in a box in a dark cupboard.
Ah! After looking through every cupboard and closet and house, I've found it.
It's a little model car toy. An old, Cruella Deville style car. An "RZ Rod" from Ridemakerz. It's a pretty little car. It can be turned into a remote controlled car, if I were to order the RC chassis from the company. It's actually one of the limited edition versions of the "Rod", even though it's just got the stock sound chip, wheels and rims. It's got a nice orange and black paint job, and I'm pretty sure my old boss gave it to me as part of my "Christmas present" from the company (along with a cool paperweight that has one of the "pirate" rims and wheels in a square of polymer, also a useless object that I own).
I used to work for Ridemakerz, you see. Now that was a fun job! It's just like Build-A-Bear, but instead of building bears, you got to build Remote-control Cars! Oh, it was so much fun! I loved the people I was working with, and the kids who came in were (most of the time) lots of fun to help. It was a great high school job, and it was a damned shame when they decided to close the Appleton branch.
The car serves absolutely no use to me currently, but I'm sure a child will have fun with it someday. It's sitting in its original plastic coverings, with a cardboard base. It's hidden away in the bottom part of the cupboard that I built in my high school cabinetry class.
I hope that it has use one day. But until that day, it's just a piece of pretty plastic sitting in a box in a dark cupboard.
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