Imagine the pain in this 15-year-old's eyes. Poor Courtney Akers.
(Credit: KHOU Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET )
We try never to state the obvious here, because, well, if something's obvious then it surely needs no words.
However, before this weekend begins and you begin to think about the holiday season, it's worth just mentioning one perhaps obvious thing.
When you buy a gadget, it's best to open the box at the store, just to check the gadget is actually in there.
I only mention this because of an ill-starred tale that come from the Lone Star State.
As Houston's KHOU tells it, Bobbi Linden went to Wal-Mart in Sealy, Texas, and bought her daughter an iPad for her 15th birthday.
Or at least she thought she did.
For, in fact, she bought her a pile of yellow notepads in an iPad box.
This was not some clever suggestion for her daughter to follow a legal career. "I thought they were joking. And they weren't," explained daughter Courtney Akers to KHOU.
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