Posted on 12/04/2004 4:58:25 PM PST by steveo
HOBART, Ind. - A woman's effort to assuage her 6-year-old son's fears of his grandfather's ghost by selling it on eBay has drawn more than 34 bids with a top offer of $78.
Mary Anderson said she placed her father's "ghost" on the online auction site after her son, Collin, said he was afraid the ghost would return someday. Anderson said Collin has avoided going anywhere in the house alone since his grandfather died last year.
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If this woman was only interested in her son's emotional well being, then she would simply have a friend write to the kid and say that her father's ghost was now living with them. Instead, she's exploiting her son's fears, and turning the situation into an opportunity to make some money. Based on the bidding, there's a lot of gullible people out there.
Here's a link to Weird Al Yankovic's ebay song.
Friend of mine who sent me this once said, "I'm convinced you can sell anything on ebay".
http://www.erikasfriends.com/for_net/lj/song_for_you.htm
I would have told my kid that Grandpa was in heaven and the Bible tells us the gap between us and the spirit world cant be spanned (luke 16:26) and dropped it at that
If he persisted I would suggest he pray to Christ, so He could pass a message along
My son played with "Dick and Ditto". They lived outside in the tree.
Let the kid read some Hamlet:
I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!
If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
"Shipping costs: US $5.00 - US Postal Service Priority Mail® (within United States) "
What exactly is being shipped ?
Susie seemed to come and go at will, while Itsy was always with my daughter. He was the nice imaginary friend. Susie was a brat.
"Shipping costs: US $5.00 - US Postal Service Priority Mail® (within United States) "
What exactly is being shipped ?
$680
The well worn cane and a bunch o' crap.
No, she aint for sale.
Dick and Ditto were always together. Our son tells us now (he's 24) that they were bad! (btw, my son is STILL wierd!!)
Ghost & assuage ping.
What's the SH charage?
;)
The cane. And it's my guess that the bidder is going to "stiff" her.
Only in America... That's why the world hates us (US)
Your suggestion is much better than mine.
but if you are intending to buy this as a gift for a loved one at Christmas, HOW does one wrap it?
Kirkwood wrote:
If ebay lets her sell this, I know where I'm going to get rid of some ghosts from my past.
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