Musing of the Day
Every once in a while I get a wild hair growin' and decide to post something stupid. So here I go.
Here's the scenario. My oldest son (Wonderpup I) who hasn't taken a regular nap since before he turned two (he's not quite three) wakes up much too early and so falls asleep on the couch in the middle of the day. My not-quite-9-month-old (Wonderpup II) wakes up from his morning nap and is ready to play. So, as we are quietly playing with various toys in a room near the sleeping Wonderpup, my little son crawls over and pulls up on a toy that's like a little piano with other music making toys on it. I reach over before my little one touches one of the keys to turn it off so as not to wake up my sleeping son and the toy says, "Bye bye!". AHHHHHH!! BYE BYE?!?! My older son stirs, wakes up from his nap and that's that. No more sleep, no more napping, grouchy and cranky for the rest of the day.
Okay, so who thought making the toy say, "Bye bye" when you turned it off was a great idea??? I want his name (it must have been a man, by the way!) I want his head! I want to strangle him!! Well...I at least want to write him a nasty letter. I want to tell him that when you turn off a toy, that means you don't want it to make any more noise. What an idea! What a concept! Isn't that common sense? Ah well...
Bye bye.
Here's the scenario. My oldest son (Wonderpup I) who hasn't taken a regular nap since before he turned two (he's not quite three) wakes up much too early and so falls asleep on the couch in the middle of the day. My not-quite-9-month-old (Wonderpup II) wakes up from his morning nap and is ready to play. So, as we are quietly playing with various toys in a room near the sleeping Wonderpup, my little son crawls over and pulls up on a toy that's like a little piano with other music making toys on it. I reach over before my little one touches one of the keys to turn it off so as not to wake up my sleeping son and the toy says, "Bye bye!". AHHHHHH!! BYE BYE?!?! My older son stirs, wakes up from his nap and that's that. No more sleep, no more napping, grouchy and cranky for the rest of the day.
Okay, so who thought making the toy say, "Bye bye" when you turned it off was a great idea??? I want his name (it must have been a man, by the way!) I want his head! I want to strangle him!! Well...I at least want to write him a nasty letter. I want to tell him that when you turn off a toy, that means you don't want it to make any more noise. What an idea! What a concept! Isn't that common sense? Ah well...
Bye bye.
posted by Scotty | 12:36 PM | Permalink
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2 Comments:
Scotty, I feel your pain. We used to post a sign at the doorbell saying, "Knock. Don't ring bell. Baby sleeping!" at nap time. We shimmed all the floor boards in the baby room to prevent squeaks.
My advice is to remove the batteries and say the toy is "broken."
My least favorite toy was the tamaguchi, which could not be turned off. That stupid "dog" would die while kids were in school.
An amusing musing indeed. I remember those days. My pups are now 18 and 23 and what a difference those years make.
Toys with noise for boys. . . Certainly one of the great evils in the world.
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