Toys that make noise
I like quiet toys. I know it sound strange, because I'm obviously a gadget junkie and an electronics h00r, but I really do prefer quiet toys, especially when my kids play with them. Plush animals, for example. Board puzzles.
It's cosmic irony, then, that my friends and family constantly conspire against me to buy noisy, annoying toys for my children.
Possible the most egregious of these sins is the book that makes noise, which I am convinced was spawned by Satan himself. These look like normal books, except down the side there are buttons, and when pressed, these buttons activate some sort of sound effect, vocal sample or music -- usually pushed through the tinniest, most annoying speaker that the bookmaker could possibly find to use.
I have been known to rip these devices off the sides of books that my children have. I have been known to stomp noisy toys back into their constituent elements when they won't shut up.
I hate toys that make noise.
Comments
BAH! Humbug!
Posted by: doktorwise | September 26, 2003 02:07 PM
I guess I shouldn't tell you then, about a story my mama told me about something I did when I was younger; but I'll say it anyway. I tookout the pots and pans, and the Kellog's Corn Flakes (geez, even then I liked it...even though I ground it into the carpet) and, banging on them with some potspoon or cooking utelsil I shouted to all and sundry, "wake up! Wake up!"
;-)
Posted by: chocolate-covered treat | September 29, 2003 06:59 PM