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One Very Happy Little Boy
By Moriah on May 5th, 2009
The kids haven’t had bike helmets for a while since I kept forgetting to replace the old ones that got trashed. Finally I decided yesterday was the day and told Drew and Madeline that we’d go buy new ones when they woke up from their nap.
(Sidenote: I love having legitimate things to entice my children into being excited for naptime.)
We went to Wal-Mart and tried on all the black helmets (Drew’s color choice). Of course the only one that fit him had no packaging or bar code. I thought they’d do what they usually do in such cases and just pick a fair (and low!) price and call it a day.
That. Did. Not. Happen.
After the cashier had wrung up our order, another clerk finally took the helmet to go try to ascertain a price. I knew it was pointless because I had looked myself. I stood there for the extra 10 minutes, trying to maintain orderly children (which is hard enough for them without having to stand still and wait for something they don’t understand).
Still, no price. Another manager came and said he needed to suspend my order and go back to the “guy that puts all the bikes together” and see if there was a book from where he could look up a price.
I said no thanks, I’m not waiting a minute longer. Target will now get my business. I tried not to think about how crushed Drew was and told him he could ride his new bike in our backyard and not worry about the helmet and we would get one today. He was happy enough that I had bought him a bigger bike (it was high time).
So today while he was in school, I was able to get him a helmet at Target. And what do you know, they are several dollars cheaper than Wal-Mart (score one for me).
Andy took him and Madeline straight to the bike path after school and they rode and rode and rode. I took them tonight after dinner and they rode and rode and rode again.
Which means Drew’s pretty much living on Cloud 9.
8 Responses to “One Very Happy Little Boy”
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Grr…walmart.
I entice William with things like that to get him to peacefully take his nap! Ahhh, the things we resort to in order to get a little bit of peace and quiet every day!
Makes me hate Walmart even more…but the closest Target is 13 miles away…and I just can’t drive 13 miles when I need something!
I bet your kids are TIRED and sleeping well too!
Score another one for you!
We should have gotten a picture of Drew riding Ruthie’s princess bike with her princess helmet.
I choose Target over Wal-Mart any day. Can’t wait until the new one by my house is done!
Your life sound so much like mine!!!
I always get the only item without a tag, etc.
It would really be ugly if we went shopping together since we both have such a hard time.
I love your posts. So witty.
I loathe Wal-Mart! Glad you were able to find another helmet!
Great idea to give the kids something to look forward to after required naps. Keep the great parenting tips coming…I’m gonna need them really soon!
Oh Walmart, the necessary evil sometimes. Luckily when I went in last night to check out the dress selection there was NO LINE NO WAITING when I arrived at check out. I was amazed.
Oh and I started to text you and ask you the brand of false eyelashes your sisters use but didn’t want you to be sorry I had your number now. lol