What Claire Got For Christmas, part 1...

[moonlettuce]

So, to fully tell this story I've got to go back a couple of years to the Thursday before Connotations 2006. temaris, lost_house and I were doing the last minute buying stuff for the con thing and we ended up in Ann Summers. (Do outside of the UK and Ireland have Ann Summers? If not, it's basically a sex shop for hen parties and people who want to think they're being kinky.)

Whenst in Ann Summers we noticed a display case among the vibrators. Turned out that the people who do the Rampant Rabbit had released a special edition. A special edition with a pink fluffy tail and diamanté around the base. For £200. (Hence being in the locked case.)

We were all O_o

o_O

O_O

£200. For a vibrator. (Honey, for that price it had better also make breakfast in bed and mow the lawn...)

The woman in the shop was all "Ooh, I see you admiring; would you like to see how powerful it is?" and we were all "Actually, we were thinking how much of a bitch that tail would be to clean considering where you'd be sticking that thing..."

Needless to say, we left without any of us purchasing said vibrator, but with a tin of knob biscuits for the con.

Fast forward a while and change locations to my work. One of the women I work with used to be an Ann Summers rep in her spare time. (She'd go around to people's homes and host Ann Summers party where people got drunk, played penis ring toss and bought vastly overpriced knickers.)

Any way we'd been chatting and I'd mentioned this vibrator to her, in the "I wonder if any actually got sold..." kind of way. "Oh," says she, "I've got one in my party stock..." Not the Rampant Rabbit version, but still one with a pink fluffy tail and diamanté around the base - although this one sold for less hefty £70 price tag and, yes, some people had purchased them. (I'm still wondering about the cleaning issue at this point, but hey, let's just get on with the rest of the story...)

I thought nothing else of it, until Friday, when she walks up to me in work, hands me a pink box and says "Merry Christmas!" with a grin.

She quit being a rep for Ann Summers a little while ago and is in the process of getting rid of all of the stock she had in. And she remembered the conversation and thought of me. Yes, you all know where this is heading ::grin::

I present to you my Christmas present:



It's got it's own stand. Dude! I've been given a display vibrator for Christmas. Seriously, I'm thinking on the mantle in the front room. After all, it'd be a heck of a talking point...

Comments

[leyenn.livejournal.com]

Only you. Only you.

*shakes head and grins*

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

::grin:: Hey, little girl, wanna feel my tail ;)

[threnodyjones.livejournal.com]

Oh no - something like this would happen to her friend (and mine) Christina, too. This is obviously Chris's long distance influence.

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

::grin:: Yeah, it is a very Chris thing, isn't it ;)

[threnodyjones.livejournal.com]

You two are peas in a pod some days, I swear. Separated only by an ocean...

[trobadora]

This? is awesome. :D

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

After I got over the wtf? moment I couldn't stop laughing. And people kept coming up to me in work all day and asking to see it ::g::

[libitina]

If it were watertight, you could try machine washing. And it really should have more of a flare/base combination because it would clearly work best as a butt plug.

But, hey, you not only got a useless sex toy, but also you got a story.

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

Thing is, it's not useless. It's actually works, it just doesn't have batteries in at the moment ::g:: I have no idea if the stand is because people actually do have little sex toy displays in their bedrooms / living rooms. Maybe I should start a trend ;)

[libitina]

I think you should start the trend. And then once you like the stand, you can start making your own for other sex toys. And it goes on until you get pictures of your decorating skills in the local news.

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

lol! That house is very O_O, but I totally loved it when she was all "Good taste has no place here! lol!"

[libitina]

Exactly! That could be you - only with sex toys. *g*

[kageygirl.livejournal.com]

WOW, that is a lot of fuzzy pink tail. (So to speak. *g*)

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

The tail is actually bizarrely tactile and great fun to stroke. There was one point I didn't realise I was stroking the tail rather suggestively until one of the guys I worked with just looked at me and grinned.

[morganmuffle]

Wow... that's quite some present *g*

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

It is ::g:: It really, really is ;)

[catwalksalone]

Perhaps the stand is for hygiene reasons? You know, if you're so tired out afterwards you can't be bothered to clean it up so you pop it on the stand and, Bob's your bewildered transgendered auntie, no staining the bedside table.

Also? Toooooo piiiiiiiiiiink.

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

lol! Well, that's one reason for it ::g::

[wesleysgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh MY. LOL!!!

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

::grin:: It's all, "So, what did you get from work, Claire?" "Well..."

[zortified.livejournal.com]

That's very... um.

Yes.

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

Fear my vibrator and its display stand of DOOM!

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Dude, I didn't know you could get squirrels in that colour!

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

It's all in the dye job ;)

[aithine]

LOL

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

I know! ::g::

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

It looks like a novelty keychain. Or something.

*eyes it*

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

::g:: Well, it's something all right ;)

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

That is too funny :;grinning here:; It's very cute that tail but so impractical as you say.

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

I know! I mean cleaning it would be a nightmare. And also? It sheds...

[lavvyan.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

::grin::

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

Bwahahaha!

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

That seems to be the common reaction ;)

[starlaces.livejournal.com]

omg *tries to be surprised* *fails*

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

::snerk::

[planetkiller.livejournal.com]

*dies*

Suddenly, I feel better about receiving tequila for Christmas.

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

lol!