Ms. Pac-Man is my favorite arcade game. Whenever Dusty and I go to the movies at the AMC and have time I make Dusty play Ms. Pac-Man with me. Around my birthday in September Dusty said he had an October gift for me. Needless to say I asked about it almost everyday until the end of October and in the end Dusty said the gift was not ready. He said he was making me something. Well, if any of you know Dusty very well you’ll know that woodworking and craftmanship is not his forta. Ladies, I don’t want you to think that he can’t do things around the house because he’s great at hanging pictures and putting together shelves for me but let’s just say he’s not renovating our place or anything anytime soon. So, when he said he was making me something I was absolutely intreged by what it could be. Finally at the end of November I came home to find my “October Present”.

It was an arcade machine. He made this arcade machine. He bought a black empyt arcade box, bought all of the buttons and coin despenser, joy sticks, and tv inside. He drilled the holes for everything and got a friend to paint the outside of the box so it would look like Ms. Pac-Man. He bought the sign for the top of the machine and put a light inside so it would light up. Inside is a computer that holds not only the Ms. Pac-Man game but hundreds of other arcade games as well as nintendo, game boy, and other video games.

Thinking back on the gift, I’m not sure if the gift was really for me or for him and his friends. It was a great gift though and took a lot of creative thinking on his part.