My parents gave me a 42″ plasma TV. Very nice considering I know it’s a little out of their reach, but in a new apartment with a wife and kid, I really appreciated it. However, the power cord was defective. Long story short, it caused a small fire last night during New Year’s Eve. It was the first New Year’s Eve I’ve been able to spend at home (and what a great time it was until this happened). As the two of us were in the kitchen, kid asleep, we smell something. We go into the living room and see a small blaze up the side of the wall behind the TV. My wife panics like all women do (just kidding to the female audience). I get the fire extinguisher, put out the blaze and call the fire department.
Tomorrow, I’ll be exchanging the TV. My wife will be yelling at Best Buy like they were the cause of Hurricane Katrina, and my parents already have apologized about 1000 times.
So, although I’ve gotten dumb things in the past, you know, socks as a kid instead of Transformers, I think this tops the list of the worst, and ironically most expensive, Christmas gift I’ve ever gotten.
What’s yours?
