How badly would CP injure me...

[Ghoulish Delight]

Were I to purchase a pair of these (http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/la/fan_forum/stadium_seats.jsp) for the livingroom?

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/la/images/fan_forum/y2005/blue_seats_big.jpg

Authentic Dodger stadium seats, only $250/pair! They're replacing all the seats this off-season, so these puppies are for sale. So...tempted...

[scaeagles]

Hell....cut out the middle arm rest and call it a "love seat". Tell her you only want to be close to her. Women fall for sappy stuff like that.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Oh man, I would buy these in a heartbeat if I could. How cool is that?

CP will understand and if not, how much damage could she actually do? Nothing a full body cast and a neck brace couldn't fix in oh, say a year or two.

Seems like you really should buy 4 though. What if you want to invite someone to the game? ;)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Hell....cut out the middle arm rest and call it a "love seat". Tell her you only want to be close to her. Women fall for sappy stuff like that.
I bet she'd get even more pissed when I start throwing peanut shells on the floor.

[scaeagles]

CP will understand and if not, how much damage could she actually do?

Yeah - she's pretty skinny, right? How much do you outweigh her by?

BE A MAN! BUY THE CHAIRS!

And MBC is right - buy two. That way, if you cut out all the middle arm rests, you can have somewhere to sleep.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Man up, Nancy.

[scaeagles]

Man up, Nancy.

From this moment forward GD stands for "Girly Dude".

[sleepyjeff]

Will they look good in your garage?





I ask because that's where all my really cool stuff ends up due to my wifey poo:)

[Ghoulish Delight]

You realize by "injure" I mean "not have sex with", right?

[Moonliner]

Are you freaking kidding me? A BLUE seat? What are you trailer trash?

I wouldn't let my mother-in-law sit in a blue seat. If CP let's you in the house with anything less than orange... :rolleyes:

[scaeagles]

You realize by "injure" I mean "not have sex with", right?

Ah. This does raise the stakes.

What is something frivilous she wants?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Are you freaking kidding me? A BLUE seat? What are you trailer trash?

I wouldn't let my mother-in-law sit in a blue seat. If CP let's you in the house with anything less than orange... :rolleyes:
Hey, don't mess with the Reserved Deck. Best views in the park.

[Not Afraid]

Personally, I think they'd be cool on your balcony. I saw a pair in an antique store yesterday and I seriously considered them for my backyard. They'd look so cool under the arbor. Be creative, man!

[Ghoulish Delight]

They would be cool there, but with 2 bikes, a BBQ, and 2 plant shelving dealies, there ain't much room out there anymore. I'd love them for my future dream game room, but I don't want to live with them for eons only to never have a use (especially with no garage to stash them in).

[Prudence]

And this is why I love having a garage so much.

Aren't relationships all about balance? I'm sure CP would be happy to let you purchase that....thing....

Provided, of course, that she simultaneously acquires something twive as expensive that she has been coveting.

[AllyOops!]

Will they look good in your garage?





I ask because that's where all my really cool stuff ends up due to my wifey poo:)


All of the coolest stuff always ends up in the garage! My garage, before I moved, had an Asteroids arcade game & a custom decorated & pinstriped 1950's fridge repainted sparkling pink!

Go for it, GD! The trick is to make her happy, too. Why not purchase CP something as cool as she is? :cool: Here's an idea- purchase the seats, but make sure CP has lots of brand-new fluffy Disneyland Shag pillows to place on them. See? Everybody wins! :D

Sometimes we purchase things we so don't need, but nonetheless are a part of history and make us happy. Take it from the girl who shelled out to buy an old blue and yellow Disneyland Tram Sign featuring Pinnochio. It's 8 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and YES, it sits in storage. :( I mean, aside from turning it into a bitchen' bar, what am I going to do with it? However, it's a piece of Disneyland and I get all excited when I think about how it sat at my favorite place on earth for years, getting sun beaten and rain battered. :)


You should talk to Flubber, GD. He owns two Padres stadium seats. I once saw them in all of their screaming orange glory- sitting in his garage! I just asked him this morning whatever happened to them. Like all cool stuff? They sit in storage. ;)

[Not Afraid]

$250 is NOTHING. But, I think that money exists to make my life happier. Yeah, I save, but I also buy things that catch my fancy, practical or not.

[Ghoulish Delight]

It's less the money than the fact that there's nowhere to put the thing.

[Not Afraid]

Yet.

[Ghoulish Delight]

...nor anywhere to store it until "yet" happens.

[SacTown Chronic]

Hell GD, you can store it at my house for as long as you want. As for CP, just throw something girthy her way and call it a day.

[Mousey Girl]

Hell GD, you can store it at my house for as long as you want. As for CP, just throw something girthy her way and call it a day.

:snap: :snap: :snap:

[Morrigoon]

Seriously, balcony seating. Just be sure to secure them to a nice wide piece of wood so you don't have to worry about them tipping over every time you sit down.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

My brother's wife let him purchase an original bench seat from the first incarnation of the University of Michigan stadium. Of course, it's wooden and pretty and holds their University of Michigan teddy bears in their maize-and-blue painted, fancy-football-photos-on-the-wall University of Michigan living room.

My family went to Michigan. Can you tell?

[CoasterMatt]

The coolest looking stuff ends up in the garage/basement/laundry room - where do you think my lava lounge is? :D

[Ghoulish Delight]

Hmmm...if I move that potted tree on the balcony...

[Not Afraid]

There you go! Think creatively! :evil:

[Cadaverous Pallor]

1. I am a Dodger fan myself.

2. I've always been very jealous of those guys you see on TV that own awesome junk. You know, props from the Wizard of Oz, ride vehicles from Disneyland, etc etc. I love me some historical crap.

3. We've been good. Really! We've got a nice chunk of change and we're adding to it for a down payment next year, hopefully. We've never carried a credit card balance. We never buy anything we can't afford. We've been cheap cheap cheap (except for APs, of course).

4. Damn, those seats are cool. Imagine a backyard, with a bbq, and the game on, and little tables on either side to put your drink down on...

5. Um, so, I get $250 to do whatever I want with? Like buy something totally pointless, totally unnecessary? Two hundred and fifty dollars???

6. Can we afford $500? We can? Even after Paris? Really?

7. Ok, so we're totally not buying Hanukkah gifts, right?

8. Just click it already so there's no going back!



As for injuring him (by "injure" I mean "not have sex with") something as reckless and spontaneous as this probably means he'll get the reverse of injury pretty soon...

:cheers:

[Ghoulish Delight]

My sister just made the most expensive phone call of her life...

Me: I'm about to make a really stupid purchase.
Her: What?
Me: Dodger Stadium seats.
Her: What, like season tickets?
Me: No, actual Dodger Stadium seats.
Her: So, like, your name engraved on a seat?
Me: No, actual Dodger Stadium seats.
Her: Huh?

10 minutes later, we both own Dodger Stadium seats. She actually bought 2 pair! Gotta figure out how we're going to pick 'em up (they'll be disassembled, so that should make transporting them easier), and then hope I have the tools to put them back together.

Craziest purchase I've ever made, I'm all giddy. But it's a piece of history for crying out loud!

[Kevy Baby]

Craziest purchase I've ever made, I'm all giddy. But it's a piece of history for crying out loud!Based on CPs post above, tonight should be pretty good!

Congrats on making the leap. Ya gotta do it once in a while.
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I got to thinking about the math. Considering that Dodger Stadium seats in excess of 50,000, that means about 25,000 pairs are being sold at $250 a pop.

25,000 x $250 = over $6 million!

[Tito's Kitten]

I wish I could buy them..... They just look so cool.....

Congrats on the purchase!!!!! Enjoy them.....

[CoasterMatt]

Congrats, to both of you...

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Congrats, that is so friggin awesome!!! :) So cool to own a piece of the stadium. And mad props to CP for understanding how cool this is! :)

[wendybeth]

Scaeagles, why do I have the feeling that you are living vicariously through GD, and by goading him you are living out a fantasy that your wife would never allow?

GD- if you really, really want these things, offer to let CP chuck out one item that is currently in your home that she despises. Oh, and buy her something really nice. You must also mention at least three times in mixed company what a great sport she is, because anyone who would allow those chairs into their domicile is either a frat boy bachelor, or someone who is very cool who also happens to be married to a former frat boy bachelor.;)

[Ghoulish Delight]

Okay, the stadium seat saga continues...

Like I said, I told my sister about my purchase, whose response was, "That's silly...or not! I'm buying a couple!"

Well, she told her friend about them, whose response was, "That's silly...hmm, but now that I think about it, my fiancee's a huge Dodger fan and I need to a wedding gift for him." So she decided to get one, after consulting a bunch of other friends to decide which ones to get (she eventually decided on the yellow box seats because those are his favorite seats to see a game in).

But it doesn't end there. Shortly after she purchased the seats, she and her fiancee were at a party. While in another room, she over hears a friend ask her husband if he's heard that the Dodgers are selling seats, so she of course listens carefully for his reacion to see if he will eventually enjoy his gift. He says, "Yeah...don't tell Liz, but I bought a pair of yellow box seats this morning!" She immediately yells, "What?!" He thinks he's completely boned, having spent $250 without telling her on something completely ridiculous. Meanwhile she can't decide whether to be mad about, annoyed that her awesome gift has been spoiled, or delighted that she was right that he'd love the seats as a gift!

I swear, these seats are going to be worth a lifetime of stories.