- Joined
- May 25, 2013
The amount of lego Chris has asked for has gotten to a truly ridiculous level. He seems to want pretty much every lego set he looks at. Which is fine, I suppose, but then he asks for it, from everybody.
I have been on a kick for a while of trying to find the normal sentiment behind Chris' pronouncements that gets twisted way out of proportion. Suppose that shortly after the fire, he had said "My mother and I lost a lot in the fire, we would appreciate help with some necessities. BTW, if you are interested in giving me a more frivolous gift, there is a lego set I would really love." I wouldn't have bought him the lego set, but it would have seemed like a reasonable enough message.
Instead he asks for tens of thousands of dollars of legos. To me, it is not the fact that he asked for legos that is ridiculous, it is the sheer quantity that blows my mind.
The other thing that occurs to me is that suppose I was someone like Anna, and I wanted to do something nice for Chris. If he asked for one lego set, maybe I would buy it for him. If he asks for hundreds, I wouldn't buy him one. Firstly because it would kind of piss me off that he asked for so many. Secondly, I would know that if I bought him a set, his reaction would be "You only gave me 1% of what I asked for , WTF?".
He had a bit of a golden goose. People felt bad for him after the fire and helped him out a little. All of us (including myself who actually donated) were sure that he would fuck it up somehow. Who had demanding tens of thousands of dollars of lego in the pool?
You ever hear/read that old book, "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie..."? Kind of like that, except in Chris' case, it's "If You Give A Manbaby A Damn..."
I've been trying to pull back from this recently and look at this more objectively. At best, all I can assume is perhaps this is a coping mechanism, like "window shopping" at Amazon and seeing all the cool stuff you can get, maybe build yourself a wish list, etc.
However, Chris being Chris, he has to put on a whole three-ring circus about it. Instead of just saying "maybe some Legos," he's being a selfish, entitled asshole about this like he's the only person who's even had a house fire before. And f not that, it's like he wasn't built with a stop valve. He's like that 4-year-old running around the grocery store, picking up candy and Lucky Charms and putting them in the basket, expecting his parents to just buy them. Difference here is that Chris is 32-years-old and he's running around Lego La-La Land and expecting people to just open up their wallets because... he managed to melt his old legos?
All I do know is this: Chris is a deluded fool. Sure as shit, he's going to / already has gotten caught up in his little buy-me-toys parade. He's already lost any point he had to making it (if there was any at all), and he's going to be verbally pissed when people don't buy him all the things. Fuck, if some half-cocked benefactor decided by buy the Chandlers $12,000 worth of groceries, toiletries, and actual essential items, but not a single toy? Chris would be as indignant as fuck.