When you need help to save a relationship, you can trust the Internet to come to the rescue.
This was especially so in the case of a Singaporean man who wanted to surprise his wife, who is a fan of the popular location-based augmented reality game Pokemon Go.
In an ad post on online marketplace Carousell on Oct 12, the seller only known as ‘featherlit’, wrote how he wanted to buy cuddly plushies of the Pokemon called Snorlax as a surprise for his wife, who had gushed about how “cute and dumb” it looked.
Without her knowledge, he bought three of the plushies hastily online without caring much about the price. When they arrived, he received two rude shocks:
First, they turned out to be life-sized instead of the “mini ones” that he expected to fit snugly on their computer table or wall shelves. Each of the Snorelax plushies he received turned out to be 1.5m tall.
Second, his wife flew into a rage as there was no more living space in their apartment after they had to plonk the giant Snorelax plushies in their living confines.
He said he was forced to put them up for sale after his wife threatened “to move back to her mom’s home”.
His rib-tickling post was accompanied with photos showing the soft toys taking up a big chunk of their living space in an apartment presumably in Punggol, as it was named as his location.
Sounding like a man in great despair, he implored: “Please please…guys…buy them away before she divorces me…I will be glad to transport it to your place.”
His desperate sales pitch generated laughs among netizens who also ‘sympathised’ with his problem.
Said one netizen Ah Bui: “In order to salvage your (sic) marriage and your (sic) willingness to let go at an (sic) unacceptable price, I sacrifice myself and my room for u. Bro.”
Said another, thriftshopthrill: “If nobody is buying from you and your wife is one foot out of the door, I am willing to give up half my room space for one of these.”
Without revealing how much he had paid for each, he only let on that the plushies “cost an arm and leg”. And his asking price for each Snorlax? $250.
The happy conclusion: All three plushies were snapped up, said the man in an update to the post.
He wrote: “Hey guys, snorlax has been sold…thanks everyone!”
chenj@sph.com.sg
Read also: Stampede as players rush to catch Snorlax
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