Subject: I had a mildly traumatic experience with those pins. {= P
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Posted on: 2018-10-22 18:30:00 UTC

Allow me to share a fairly off-topic but tangentially connected story.

I was a kid. I'd just learned about Figment the Dragon, and thought he was pretty cool. I'd somehow gotten a particular pin that, I think, was just his head. It wasn't the one I wanted; I wanted a full-body one. (Unless it was the other way around; I forget.) I just liked the other one better. The adults around me discouraged me from exchanging the one I had because it was rare and more valuable. I did not care about this at all; I just wanted the one I liked better. Finally, at the last possible opportunity, I found someone who was willing and probably happy to trade with me and finally got the thing I wanted. I was not taken advantage of; the person I traded with very kindly made sure to explain things, I knew exactly what I was doing, and I did not care about the monetary value. Nonetheless, everyone was very upset that I'd done it. All the enjoyment was sucked right out of it. {= /

For the record, my family was mostly very supportive of me. This incident sticks out in my memory precisely because of how weird it was. It's not like anybody was a serious collector of Disney pins or anything, either.

Moral of the story: They're just bits of metal and lacquer. They're for fun. Chill out, people.

~Neshomeh

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