J had an UTTERLY VILE Bob the Builder cement mixer that played many happy BtB songs, and various games, and had the most annoying voice ever, and even carried on making loud noises when you turned it off, allegedly under the guise of 'Saying Bye Bye'.
After a while we attacked it in search of a volume control, only to find that it had two volume settings and we had it on 'quiet'. What's worse, the batteries never, ever ran out; they were still working when I got round to selling it on eBay the other month. Its photo has gone into the album that will one day become the Tat Collage. It's a quiet photo.
It was a present from my brother, and I think of it every time I have cause to buy something for his first-born (now three). We found a Thomas the tank engine toy that spewed balls around the living room, for example; and for Christmas he got a K'Nex set with hundreds of bits. Ah. Sweet revenge. Do you think he's old enough for plaster of paris yet?
And when M was little, we explained to her that AA batteries were particularly rare and uncommon and so we weren't able to replace them in the toys that ran out. She still believes it a little bit.
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Date: 2008-01-13 01:18 am (UTC)After a while we attacked it in search of a volume control, only to find that it had two volume settings and we had it on 'quiet'. What's worse, the batteries never, ever ran out; they were still working when I got round to selling it on eBay the other month. Its photo has gone into the album that will one day become the Tat Collage. It's a quiet photo.
It was a present from my brother, and I think of it every time I have cause to buy something for his first-born (now three). We found a Thomas the tank engine toy that spewed balls around the living room, for example; and for Christmas he got a K'Nex set with hundreds of bits. Ah. Sweet revenge. Do you think he's old enough for plaster of paris yet?
And when M was little, we explained to her that AA batteries were particularly rare and uncommon and so we weren't able to replace them in the toys that ran out. She still believes it a little bit.