Friday, September 2, 2016

Super Fun Times

Ya know what's super fun?  I will tell you...

Your child hands you a toy and its remote that no longer work.  You assume the batteries are dead because every battery is always dead forever and ever.  You find the tiniest screwdriver in the house so you can unscrew the battery compartment cover on both the toy and the remote.  You throw away the batteries and replace them with fancy rechargeable ones because Mother Earth.  You screw both battery compartment covers back on, and try the toy.  Nothing.  So you unscrew both battery compartment covers again, and take the batteries out.  Maybe they weren't charged after their last use?  Yes, surely that is why we are having this malfunction.  So you charge all the batteries.  In the mean time, you don't want to lose the battery compartment covers or the unreasonably small screws that hold them in place, so you screw them back on while the toy and remote are still lacking portable power cells.  (Oh, and in case you were wondering?  The screws on these toys must be made of cesium.  These suckers strip at first touch of anything other than the soft flesh of tiny fingers that are supposedly trying to get them undone.)  The batteries charge.  You unscrew both battery compartment covers, put the batteries back in, you screw the remote battery compartment cover back on, and as you are screwing the toy's battery compartment cover back on?  That is when you see THE FUCKING ON/OFF SWITCH ON THE TOY.

And that moment right there is when you lose any shred of sanity you had bouncing around in your brain.

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