At 11:54 PM Sunday 12/4/2005, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 01:16 PM Sunday 12/4/2005, Gary Nunn wrote:
What
are these people thinking when they bring young children to shop for others
and then are mean and nasty to the kids because they naturally want toys
that they see?
Maybe they could not find a baby sitter (perhaps 'cuz everyone else
they could call also wanted to be at Wal-Mart at 0500) and so had
to bring the kids with them.
Hm. My kids' daddy doesn't WANT to be at Wal-Mart on that day.
(Neither do I, come to think of it.) So if I really want to be at
Wal-Mart the minute it opens, gee, I can leave the kids at home with him.
Are some of these parents divorced?
Or possibly never married in the first place.
(Also, who gets a kid up that early anyway? You don't want to
ENCOURAGE them to be up at 4AM!)
Naturally, my daughter wants one of the special edition Nintendo DS games,
but there was NO WAY that I was going to join the feeding frenzy and act
like an idiot. My son's mom (my daughter and son have different moms) , who
makes sure her kids always have the latest and greatest, paid almost twice
the price by buying the game and cartridge separately. She paid over $100
for the game cartridge on eBay. The game itself was a limited edition color
and the cartridge was only available in the "Special Limited Edition"
bundle, and was being sold on eBay by people who bought the game, but didn't
want the cartridge. Saying that I am astounded would be an understatement.
Several years ago when "Tickle Me Elmo" was the hot,
impossible-to-find item, I responded by getting one of the little
5-inch-or-so-high Elmos, tying a noose around its neck, and hanging
it from the post my mailbox is attached to with a sign that said
"TICKLE THIS!" pinned to its chest as part of my holiday
decorations . . . (I suppose it may still be in a bag somewhere
with other decorations where I put them after taking them down.)
Heh. I sold a used one for $5 a couple of months ago. (Elmo gets
annoying after awhile.
About .001 seconds, if it makes noise and you are over a certain age . . .
They've managed to break the "Hokey Pokey Elmo". Unfortunately,
what broke wasn't the part that controls the singing.)
I dated a girl who wanted me to pick anything I wanted for "our
song." For some reason, she seemed disappointed when I chose the
"hokey Pokey" . . .
(Haven't figured out a way to do anything similar with an Xbox . .
. at least not for a financial outlay comparable to that of the
miniature Elmo . . .)
If you had the use of one for an afternoon, to take measurements,
you could probably make a decent mock-up out of cardboard, masking
tape and paint, couldn't you?
Assuming I had nothing else to do . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
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