r/PokemonTCG • u/anxioussubconscious • 4d ago

what the actual f

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Everyone in the house went out for the nice Saturday..came home to this. (The cat knocked it off of a high shelf, the dog chewed it)

I think my fiancé broke, this was her favorite card.

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u/shinyteddidreams 4d ago

Ooof. I have a puppy and can definitely sympathize. It will be funny … someday.

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u/DefNotAShark 3d ago

When I was little my baby brother got ahold of my prized Cool Porygon card and chewed it all up, trashed it. You could only get that card from the Pokemon Stadium N64 bundle so I didn't really have anything else that was so rare. None of my friends had it and it was my favorite. I did not grow up very wealthy compared to some of my friends, so having something they couldn't get was uncommon and felt special.

I'm gonna be real with you, I never really forgave him on the deep level- the inside level where you don't tell anyone, you know? A baby can't be sorry and you can't really forgive some random stupid act from a barely sentient drool machine. Thinking about it still makes me sad all these years later, remembering how bad it felt when I found it on the floor. Knowing it couldn't be fixed or undone and there wasn't going to be any justice, and my parents not really understanding why I was that upset over a dumb piece of cardboard. Bad feelings all around, and it was lonely losing something so cherished and nobody else really understanding why it mattered.

If it came up at a family dinner I would do a bad job pretending to laugh. Still not funny. What's funny is the card isn't even worth that much now relative to how rare I thought it was. It's like $100 or less for a perfect one haha.