Thirty Days of Spam...Day 27 - Another Srs Question
As if I do not already have enough people underfoot, my brother and his family are here for the L-O-N-G holiday weekend. As you can well imagine, I am ecstatic. Yippee. My nephew apparently wakes up at ass o'clock in the morning every morning regardless the time he went to bed the night before. And I only manged to make this discovery because he was getting up just as I was heading to bed. Clearly I need to discuss basic parenting with my brother and SIL because, truly, there is no reason whatsoever that anyone needs to wake up at 5 am including childbirth and a house-fire. No good can come of this.
Anyway in an effort to keep my 8 year old nephew from from finding and selling my best porn on Ebay AND JUST WHERE THE HELL ARE THIS CHILD'S PARENTS ANYWAY OMG, we decided it would be "fun" to draw a get well card for Grandma and watch a DVD of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Both of which are activities I can participate in with my eyes closed and snoring if I smother the noise with a pillow.
Clearly Kyle is, in fact, Mini-Me because he couldn't just shut up and enjoy the show. He had to ask questions. And about half-way through he asked a question which has actually sekritly bothered me for *decades* and which I couldn't answer. On the Island of Misfit Toys most of the toys have obvious reasons for their presence on the island. The train has square wheels, the bird swims instead of flies, the water pistol shoots grape jelly instead of water, and the jack-in-the-box is named "Charlie" instead of "Jack". But what is "wrong" with the doll? She looks fine to me. Split personality disorder, fear of tea parties, looks too much like Ginny Weasley, what?
So Kyle suggested I consult my imaginary friends here since you are all brilliant and have never failed me before. So, tell me: why is the doll on the Island of Misfit Toys?
Also, if the toys are on the island because "no little boy or girl loves them," why does Santa Claus pick them up and give them out as gifts? Won't they just get sent back to the island with all those holiday fruitcakes and ugly sweaters people keep re-gifting? Think about it so I don't have to. Like they don't feel bad enough already.
Anyway in an effort to keep my 8 year old nephew from from finding and selling my best porn on Ebay AND JUST WHERE THE HELL ARE THIS CHILD'S PARENTS ANYWAY OMG, we decided it would be "fun" to draw a get well card for Grandma and watch a DVD of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Both of which are activities I can participate in with my eyes closed and snoring if I smother the noise with a pillow.
Clearly Kyle is, in fact, Mini-Me because he couldn't just shut up and enjoy the show. He had to ask questions. And about half-way through he asked a question which has actually sekritly bothered me for *decades* and which I couldn't answer. On the Island of Misfit Toys most of the toys have obvious reasons for their presence on the island. The train has square wheels, the bird swims instead of flies, the water pistol shoots grape jelly instead of water, and the jack-in-the-box is named "Charlie" instead of "Jack". But what is "wrong" with the doll? She looks fine to me. Split personality disorder, fear of tea parties, looks too much like Ginny Weasley, what?
So Kyle suggested I consult my imaginary friends here since you are all brilliant and have never failed me before. So, tell me: why is the doll on the Island of Misfit Toys?
Also, if the toys are on the island because "no little boy or girl loves them," why does Santa Claus pick them up and give them out as gifts? Won't they just get sent back to the island with all those holiday fruitcakes and ugly sweaters people keep re-gifting? Think about it so I don't have to. Like they don't feel bad enough already.