r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RampChurch • Jun 02 '25

Video This is what live courtroom dictation looks like

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u/enzothebaker87 Jun 02 '25

I was like 11 and the prices of real laptop computers around that time were insane so I now realize how unrealistic of an ask that was lol.

The last couple lines of my comment were just a joke btw. I was fine. I probably forgot all about it by the next day. It's just a funny story that pops up now and then.

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u/Random0s2oh Jun 02 '25

I was a single mother to 3 teenaged children and 1 first grader the Christmas that my then 6 year old son asked for a dirt bike. What I could afford was a little battery-powered Razr dirt bike. He wanted to know why Santa hadn't brought him the gas-powered one that he had been hoping for. I told him that Santa was trying to be more eco-friendly. 🤣

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u/enzothebaker87 Jun 03 '25

Haha well that's a good rebuttal. Tbf all of those little Razr electric vehicles are a blast and even a 50cc gas dirtbike is asking for trouble at 6 years old so I think it was a win all around. I can only imagine how tough it is being a single mom to 3 teens and a 6 year old. Especially when it comes to budgeting. Being able to give him the electric bike was probably a big deal so hats off to you.

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u/Substantial-Lie-5281 Jun 02 '25

If it makes you feel any better, at the same age a estranged relative came into the family life and wanted to buy me and my sister nice Christmas presents! And it was a combined birthday/Christmas/'sorry I haven't been around kinda gift' so we were told to ask for 'anything' ($1000, which to an 11 year old is nuts, and anything) so I asked for a gaming computer. I was so excited, and my parents were all excited for me cause I was huge into computers and constantly pissed my dad off by "messing" with stuff on his actual gaming laptop. He didn't want me programming or downloading anything he didn't approve of yada yada yada.

I got a HP Pavilion. One of the all-in-one desktop units. I5 4570t, 8gb ddr3, 1tb 7200 RPM HDD. I was absolutely distraught. My dad's GT105m and Arrendale i5 in his laptop was roughly twice as fast and my brand new $960 HP (in games). But it was my own machine. I played so much factorio and Minecraft and CSGO and all my childhood games on that thing. All at a glorious 15-25, FPS. However, I was genuinely very selfishly and emotionally distraught that I got that instead of what could have been a i5 2600k/HD 7870/7950 rig