A Barbie Stove that talks, in the playhouse out in the yard, turned on and just talks up a storm. But only at night. Mom said the batteries are going dead, and that's why it's doing that.
Only at night.
Bonnie finally got fed up with it and went to take the batteries out. The switch on back of the stove was turned "off".
Maybe it really was just the batteries going dead... only at night.
Mallory's kicking monkey.. you have to pinch a button on one of the legs, and it begins making monkey noises, and the legs kick from left to right. Mallory kept trying to get it to work and I watched as she shook and beat the monkey against the couch, but the thing was stubbornly silent until Sarah showed Mallory how to pinch the button.
The thing has gone off all morning.. lying there, alone, no one to play with it - Mallory's gone for the day with her mom.. I suppose the batteries are going dead in that too.
Joleybeans little car, the one that has the buttons on top that make the engine rev, and the tires squeal, and the music blare, well.. the batteries on that one must be going dead too because that thing reved and squealed and played music all damned night. How long, exactly does a battery take to die.. cuz he's still playing with it today, and it's still reving and making all kinds of noises, just fine. The dying batteries don't even seem to be just a little weak.
Last but not least, we have the McDonalds toy cash register/scanner, that makes what sounds like real register beeps and chings. Yep, the batteries on that bad boy are dying too. They are. They have to be. It's been chinging off and on without the babys anywhere near it for the past week.
I can go into an abandoned building at 3 in the morning. I can go ghost hunting in a cemetery on a jet black night, and get out of the car alone. I can handle most creepy things, and just be a tad ascared. These flippin' toys though, that go off by themselves like this, give me by far, the creepiest feeling on earth!
Posted by juel at July 31, 2004 12:14 PM