Chainsaw: A Love Story
February 16 2010 Jedi sometimes has bizarre preferences for toys. For instance, we were at a thrift store this past weekend. After taking the kids to the doctor. Where we were told, oh hey, yeah, they’re really kinda sick. So it totally makes sense that we schlepped them around to dirty thrift stores. Awesome idea.
Anyway, as with most stores, thrift or otherwise, the kids bee-line sraight for the toy section. There, they tend to dig and grab at anything they can get their fingers around and then refuse to let go. It’s the ultimate in impulse decisions, and that’s why our house is running out of space.
Buzz claimed yet another stuffed panda to add to his collection. Abby got a book. Jedi, though, found the gem amongst gems.
A toy chainsaw.
He wouldn’t put the thing down. Of course we bought it.
As we were standing in line for check-out, there was a nice woman behind us making small talk with Jedi. In place of hello, however, my son blurted out, “I have a CHAINSAW!”.
“Oh, neat”, she replied, politely but hesitantly.
“Yeah, it’s a CHAINSAW!”, he wouldn’t stop.
She probably thought he was crazy. She may very well be right. That was the most animated he had been in days, though, thanks to a double ear infection. Turns out, stopping by the thrift store was, actually, an awesome idea. Especially when we returned home and he screamed through one end of our house to the other, wielding this bright red plastic chainsaw above his head like a merry mask-adorning Texas madman.
9 Responses
on February 16 2010
Sorry about the ear infections but the chainsaw is crackng my shit up! You should buy him a hockey mask to go with it and let him loose on the neighborhood! Hope your kiddos are feeling better soon….did you catch it too?
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on February 16th, 2010
@Tina, We’ve ALL been battling it for almost 2 weeks now. SO done with being sick.
on February 16 2010
Who needs penicillin when you’ve got a red plastic chainsaw to make you feel better?? Maybe that’s the answer for warding off all those antibiotic-resistant microbes out there. =>
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on February 16th, 2010
@Stacia, Well, he’s got the antibiotics, too. So maybe a combination of the two will make him feel better.
on February 16 2010
Once of my favorite bits of parenthood is watching what really captures my kids. It’s almost never anything I can predict. I think a toy chainsaw sounds pretty cool.
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on February 17th, 2010
@Marilyn @ A Lot of Loves, A toy chainsaw is very cool, I agree. Just, you know, kinda weird.
on February 16 2010
It’s okay, my son has a sword.
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on February 17th, 2010
@Amber, My son has a sword, too. And about 5 different light sabers. And about 10 toy guns. He has a whole plastic arsenal.
on February 19 2010
I’m sitting here just giggling like crazy, picturing that entire exchange with the lady in the thrift store! How funny!
My nephew went through a phase where his favorite toy was a toy weed-wacker. He wielded that thing wherever he went…even went to sleep with it for a few nights. It’s just so amusing sometimes what toys or items children gloam onto. Usually it’s something you’d never have imagined!
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