Another reason (we were at a con, there was a weapon stall, that sword was there).
When youngest was that age he didn't have anything to buy either, he just wanted to buy stuff.
Have you had the almost violent pushback of how that could never ever possibly happen because "they just wouldn't?"
Absolutely and across so many areas. Then when it happens, they move the goalposts of their words again.
Have to avoid being wrong at any and all cost? XD