You gotta laugh.
I was into Red/Blue that day it came out.
I had to try to get everything so fast.
I was six, and I heard that if I had gotten every Pokemon, I coud design my own iside the game with my face.
I woke up a litle early on a school day, seven.
I turned on the TV, and it was on channel13 (my father watched TV late at night)
I watched the last half of it and didn't like it.
(This episode was the one where Ash had beaten Erika and was on the cliff sighing to himself.)
I thought it was something like DBZ, and my mom didn't want me to watch that at my age, so I didn't watch it for a while.
A little later in the year, I had gotten to the Elite four in Red.
That day, I saw another episode in the morning.
I watched the whole thing this time, and I saw a Gloom and Pikachu inside it.
I was thinking to myself 'copycats!' (so naive).
It wasn't too long when I realized that it was Pokemon.
It soon became my favorite show in the world (I expecially liked the Pokerap).
I watched it every morning before school, even on the day of my surgery.
I never found out about the cards until I was eight.
Fossil had just came out.
My mother had a friend since she was in Kindergarten.
Her kids collected Pokemon and had masses of them.
They were selfish at that time, and didn't give me any.
I got interested, but not into it.
This was way back when McDonalds gave away the inspector Gadget toys.
I had double of every toy, and didn't need the extras.
My grandmother works in a hospital appointment center, so she can get connections.
Once a boy came in with his mother (I forgot what she had, and her son's name).
While she was in another room, the boy stayed with my grandmother.
My grandmother asked him if he really wanted something, like a toy, and she told him about me and the McDonalds toys.
He said he would give me a booster pack (Jungle) for the belt, the body, and a hat.
We made a deal without ever seeing each other.
I remember that day like it was yesterday.
I was watching The Three Stooges at my grandmother's (that episode was the riveter one).
I finally got the pack.
I got a holo Vileploom, an Oddish, a Pikachu, Nidoran (m), a Pokeball, and a whole bunch of other cards.
I was so happy, i wanted to make my little collection grow.
It did, into a thousand dollars worth.
I was the master mind in my neighborhood of seling trading, and buying.
Until, my friend got a Charizard.
I eventually got one, and Pokemon went out of style.
The first Neo came out, and my friend sold all of his cards for a good price.
I, on the other hand, waieted till the last minute and sold my lone Charizard for seventy-five cents.
I had stopped collecting because I was so dissapointed.
Until, that is, Dragon EX came out.
And to this day, I still have the blessed Vileploom.