It’s finally the other side of Christmas and normally this means we can all draw a deep breath and expel a huge sigh of relief that it’s all over…. or at least we could if we’d exercised some level of sound judgment during the present purchasing process. For it seems I have committed one of the cardinal sins of gift giving, and have given someone in my own household a Noisy Gift.
We’ve all done it in the past – handed over to Someone Else’s Child a gift with such annoyingly noisy attributes as to warrant the destruction of a longterm friendship or perhaps even so terrible as to cause one’s own relatives to disown you! But never… never .. should one purchase a Noisy Gift for someone who resides in close proximity to yourself. What on earth was I thinking? If indeed I was actually, you know… thinking per se. For I have bought THE Noisy Gift from hell into my home. Well no I can’t back that it… it weren’t actually ‘from Hell’ as it were… it came from Think Geek to be precise, but it may as well have come from Hell. 😐
I had wracked my brain for something to buy for Mr K this year, and normally I end up buying him something that he and Angel can do together, and this year I was thinking on a similar track when I purchased this for them:
Yes that’s right, I bought them what I knew they would think was the coolest toy ever a little remote control Mario Kart complete with Nintendo like controller!!! But I obviously didn’t think this through so well, because it also comes (and here’s the unfortunate bit) complete with sound effects from the game!!! Yay! 😐 Sound effects that spew out of the thing at uncontrollable volume from itty bitty little low quality speakers.
Shit.
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