gimme-gimme world

[Mag Master 04]

this was an article in july edition of APG written by Dave Norman on young kids having expensive markers that were just given to them and how they dont respsct that item b/c they dont know what it feels like to have a marker that you put sweat, tears and YOUR OWN money into. i read this article and realized that this was very very true, i was at my local field and i watched a kid get shot off the break b/c he wasnt paying attention to the game, and no sooner did he get shot, the mask was thrown, the marker was on the ground(angel ir3 fly, halo B, shocktech drop, pmi 45/45 fibre tank w/ no cover very very nice marker) and the kid didnt even shead a tear b/c his marker was messed up to the max...cracked halo, deep scrtch on tank, scratched up everything else b/c he threw it on cement. at the end of the game i seen him by the chrono with a 2k3 oricle E class, and i had to ask him if he was mad, he responded that he wasnt b/c his b day was coming up and his parents would buy him a new one. i am the person to usually not get mad at little things like that but i remembered that article written in APG and i realized how true it was. i fall into the catogory that earns everything he has, i payed for every part on my mag and its got alot of $ invested. and it pissed me off to see that little kid just shrug it off like nothing happened. i know i would cry for ever if anything ever happened to my marker. and the respect that i have for my mag is outragious, i love my mag.

just a little piece of mind for the little 12 yr old that has 4 angels and everything else under the sun that they ever could want. you give us a bad reputation little kids

PROPS TO DAVE NORMAN FOR THIS VERY WELL WRITTEN ARTICLE!
you hit it right on the nose, keep it up!

[WARPED1]

Spoiled brats, no need for them in our game.

[chizle97]

I am also a working paintballer. But the generalizations of the people you refer to are somewhat sterotypical. I know many of the se types of people whos parents bought them everything. yes your correct saying that you cant fully apreciate something unless you sweat for it, but most of these people do apreciate what they have. Its like any other walk of life, not just paintball. Besides you should become good friends with him and mabey his parents will buy you stuff!

[Grasshopper]

Wow, what a spoiled kid. I've known alot of spoiled people, but non of them would throw over $1000 onto the ground like that.

[HoboJudge]

I really didn't work for my mag, I just didn't spend my lunch money, and pretty soon, I had enough for a used mag. I considered it an indirect purchase by my parents for me. I respect it a lot though, because it would take me a long time to save up for one again. Sometimes I get angry when I see kids do this, but I eventually realize that its not my money lost(although sometimes I'm still jealous).

BTW, I just looked at your profile, and Happy birthday.

[nt2004]

i see this all the time. At CPX i saw a kid holding a brand new Black Magic cocker. The kid behind himasked him how long he had been playing and he replied "This is my first day." Then i saw his dad say "we'll need some more guns" for the other 2 kids in their little group. He left and i thought he went to rent some guns but he came back with a brand new shocker and a 68/4500! These kids had never even played before and they had better gear than i had and i've been playing for 3 years. I spend months earning enough money to upgrade my mag(i had to buy it used to afford it) and i hate seeing these rich kids with guns they have no clue how to use. At the same place i saw a group of about 17 kids, all with nice jerseys and gear and each one had a Freak kit They all had top of the line markers (I think one had a Viking). Turns out in game all of them were some of the worst players i've seen. what a waste

[Mag Master 04]

hobo, thanks for the happy b day(even though i dont like your method of getting yur marker where it is now...

nt2004, thats what im talking about

and thanks for every 1 else for agreeing with me

[Mag Master 04]

chizle97

i dont wanan be friends with a kid like that, even though hes rich

[BajaBoy]

wow.. around me i never see this, All and i mean all of my friends work to buy there paint and guns. I think if anything im the most spoiled being that my dad bought me my emag, and i only payed for half of it. My dad knows that i love the sport and that its really the onlything i do in my life outside of school and hanging out with my friends.

also just a little story, i have a little 6th grade niebor(sp), and me being in 11th. He saw us all playing paintball and he really wanted to get into it. Also he rides, and well his dad bought him a 400ex. That really has nothing to do with it, but he has been saven up every dollar he has for a wile now and him being 12? is going to buy i think an emag? or e-cocker.. I give this kid so much credit for saveing all that money.. and him buying a nice gun all on his own

[Torbo]

I occasionally (sp?) see people, mostly younger kids, like 13 with $1000+ setups playing rec woodsball. All they do is whine. It happens to me. Ill take them out, then they will go cry to their parents, who come complain to me. "oh dont be so mean to my kid. You are bigger and older" It pisses me off maybe more than anything else, ever. Anyone else get that?

[LittlePaintballBoy]

im 11, i worked for my guns, and i think everyone else should too. and when i mean i payed for my guns i mean my past guns. i started with a be,that got stolen, insurance replaced it with a spyder, saved some extra cash, bought the parts i needed (my dad loaned me some of his extras stock valve, body rail) then i sold my spyder to my cousin and bought the parts i needed to buy a mag. i was at a tourney yesterday and after the tourney we played some rec with our left over paint. there was this kid with a proteus, wgp sto, dye 2k3 jersey and dye pack, he looked like the tourney players i had been playing with earlier. his parents bought him everything and he wasnt good at all.

and that kid that threw the ir3 fly, everything is better when you buy it yourself. i would never throw my gun, even into grass.

[Lopy-slopy]

that kid is stupid. That is an amazing gun and he has no remorse smashing it. He also has no common scence or he would have known that throwing a tank that is full of gas at a very high preddure at a cement floor could end up very bad. I get lots of things, like i'm going to camp this year, and because I'm in my last year as a camper I'm going on this 2 week trip and all this other stuff so it's going to end up costing alot of money, like 3 grand for the month, but I am very thankfull that my parents do this for me and I know it's alot of money. Kid's like that EXPECT their parents to buy that kind of stuff for them and probably don't even thank them. They have no concept of how much money a grand is.

[Blennidae]

I think the example given in the frst post is an extreme case of bad parenting.

Its more than just spoiled kids. They are a byproduct of the parents. If your folks are rich, but make you earn whatever money you get to buy what you want, you learn the value of a dollar.

Unfortunately in some cultures everything is about status. If the kids are decked out, then the family must be doing well. In the parents eyes, they are trying to "keep up with the Joneses". The kids get used to getting anything they want because of it.

You can see this every year at Christmas. Remember tickle me elmo (or for us old timers Cabbage Patch kids). No one in their right mind would pay huge amounts for some stuffed toy. I think it becomes a pride point for the parents to tell their friends "I got my kid the insert hot toy here".

[SlipknotX556]

Originally posted by Blennidae
Remember tickle me elmo

Yes I do. People in Toys R US and ebay would pay hundreds of dollars for that thing. When Toys R US had them in stock, like 1 week before christmas, I was their searching for a gift for my little brother, people were jumping on each other to grab one of the few tickle me elmos left. I was laughing so hard, my little brother wanted one, but we couldnt find one anywhere, then our neighbor saw one in a store, picked it up for us.

[LittlePaintballBoy]

Originally posted by SlipknotX556



Yes I do. People in Toys R US and ebay would pay hundreds of dollars for that thing. When Toys R US had them in stock, like 1 week before christmas, I was their searching for a gift for my little brother, people were jumping on each other to grab one of the few tickle me elmos left. I was laughing so hard, my little brother wanted one, but we couldnt find one anywhere, then our neighbor saw one in a store, picked it up for us.

they were jumping on eachother? kind of like in that one crismas movie with arnold schwarrzenegger, and everyone wants that superhero toy.