A Story About a Cheap Toy I Received on Christmas

When I was a kid, my mom got scammed in a pyramid scheme and we ended up with hundreds of millions in debt. Because of that, my mom started working at a factory. I knew we were going through a tough time, so I didn't ask for any toys for Christmas. But on Christmas day, my mom came home with a toy gift, wrapped in a silver plastic bag. Excited, I opened the box, and it was a McDonald's Happy Meal transformer robot set. Even as a child, I knew it was a cheap toy you got with a kids' meal, so I was really disappointed. But I pretended to be happy so my mom wouldn't be sad. I didn't want to play with it, but I'd pretend to play with it when my mom came home from work. But looking back later, She wanted to buy me a toy, but toys from department stores were too expensive. So, my mom went to McDonald's every lunchtime from her factory, ordered the kids' meal, and ate that for lunch. She collected the 5 robots from the kids' meals, assembled them into a transformer robot set, and wrapped it up as a gift for me. I realized what she must have been thinking when she decided to give me this gift...