The mind of a teenage boy

Below is the resident teenager’s Christmas wish list from 2015. In the heading, he noted that it was “mostly sub twenty” — meaning less than $20 per item.

A sharpening stone of some sort for pocket knives, oil requiring or no doesn’t matter.
A watch with a sturdy long-lasting band (not plastic/rubber) that is water resistant to the point I could swim with it on.
Fifty plus feet of para-cord.
If you can find cheap waterproof or really water resistant winter gloves with a longer wrist to go under my sleeve that would be really good too.
The usual cash, some sugary poison, preferably some kind of chocolate—I’ll take any, about 95% dark and under, Swedish fish, Nutella, Eggnog, or something like bit’o honey (Caramel/Cream bite size candies) No sour, fizzy, root beer flavored, ect. [sic]
Beef jerky, also preferably no weird flavors, such as teriyaki or mesquite.
Random items that you think I might like appreciate.
And, if you really want to invest, by any means feel free to get me something really nice, a good bike, a backyard pool, some nice outdoor stuff, a horse and somewhere to keep it, a trip to some exotic place, a working lightsaber, scuba gear, a hang gliding trip, etcetera. Use your imagination, besides, look on the bright side, if you do this, the next few [years of getting me] birthday and Christmas presents might get called off for you, or I might get spoiled and demand more.

DSCN7126 My memory is as out-of-focus as this picture.

My memory is as fuzzy and out-of-focus as this picture of the Christmas tree.

You’d probably like to know what we ended up getting him for Christmas. I’m curious myself! On Christmas Day, I was one month out of surgery for my trimalleolar fracture and on some pretty strong pain medicine. I do know that we are not the proud owners of a horse and stable. 🙂

I was curious enough to look up previous orders on my Amazon account (the only way that any Christmas shopping got done). He received, in part, some new running gear. The fact I still have Amazon Prime is proof that those were some pretty strong pain meds; I forgot to turn off our free 30-day trial and ended up paying $99 for the entire year. Never mind that I was too busy to shop the special Prime Day sale on July 12th.

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What sort of gifts have you (or your kids or someone else you know) wished for that would fit in category #8 above?

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The generous and affluent “Aunt” C (a friend of the family) took my oldest daughter on a trip to Croatia as a high-school graduation present. Aunt C picked the destination, but was very happy to have along two “nieces” and her nephew, all recent high school grads.

For his 21st birthday, my son asked for a rain coat. I didn’t have a broken trimalleolar, or any other reasonable excuse, but was not able to find him a raincoat.

I didn’t know that people liked beef jerky enough to ask for it as a present. Chocolate is always on my list, though.

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