Meet Boris, my Nemesis.
Meet Boris. I hate him.
Night before last I may or may not have stayed up a little bit late having finished
off a bottle of wine all to myself.
I lay in bed (I may or may not have had one foot on the floor) and just as I was about to drift off I hear this SNOOORRRRRE and tssssssssssssssss
Its very distinctive and I knew exactly what it was.
It was BORIS. Pissed off cos nobody was playing with him.
I’m sure you all have a Boris – a toy that tries to cajole your child into playing with him after he has been left without interaction for 5 minutes – a toy who cannot amuse himself if you will.
Anyway, Boris tries to play possum by snoring when he has been left alone and as I knew he hadn’t been played with for at least five hours I guessed his batteries were running out.
So I stumble past the hubby into the toy room, muttering something about a fucking dinosaur. After kicking around a few things I manage to locate and turn Boris off.
Back to bed.
20 minutes later and me fast asleep I hear SNOOORRRRRE – tssssssssssssssss
FUCK!!
I stomp BACK to the toy room, past a now giggling husband, highly amused by my dishevelled appearance and my increasingly psychotic rants about Boris the fucking dinosaur….
I grab a random screwdriver off the shelf and after a few drunken attempts with a flathead screwdriver (hubby still watching and laughing) I manage to pry open Boris’ stomach and remove (throw at wall) his batteries.
Back to bed.
You wouldnt fecking believe it. 20 minutes later and me comatose I hear
SNOOORRRRRE – tssssssssssssssss
FUCK!!!!!!!!
I cannot fecking believe it!
I get up and grab every bloody Dinosaur Train Dino we own and turn all the bastards off – I don’t know HOW they are doing it but ONE of them is telepathically making Boris snore!
Little Bastards.
Back to Bed.
Bliss…
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…for about 5 minutes when I hear Master J screaming from the boys room. I drag my sorry arse into the boys room, grab bubba and break one of my cardinal rules. I let him spend the whole night in bed with us.
In the morning I told him it was because of Boris the fecking Dinosaur.
I think Boris is now Master J’s new idol – even if he will never have batteries again.
As I read this, I made a mental note to not let a Boris ever enter my home. Gift or otherwise! I once accidentally bought my nephew a robot that whizzed in circles, made awful whirring noises and sometimes chanted “Kill kill kill” in an electronic voice. I felt so guilty when I realised how truly awful it was! I even told my sister in law I understood if it didn’t last long in rotation!
We’re gonna riiiiiidddddeeeeee the dinosaur train!!
Dinosaur train! Dinosaur train! We gonna riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide the dinosaur train!
LOL – sorry you’ve been traumatised but I must confess I had the best time turning on every single one on the shelves in Kmart making them talk to each other.
Aah poor Boris…oops I mean poor you 🙂 Very funny. Thanks for linking up for Flash Blog Friday again!
I love this! Hilarious!
OMG I’ve escaped hell by the skin of my teeth. I nearly bought that thing at the Target toy sale last week! Luckily the boardgames aisle got my attention. Phew!
LMFAO! I had a similar experience one night with the damn Cookie Monster toy i ‘thought’ was cute! Up until it woke me up about a million times one night. It actually sounds rather creepy when running low on batteries – crying ‘coooooookkiiieeeess’ in the middle of the dark of night… LOL!
Oh dear, one of these (and I’m pretty sure another to come) have just been given to my son for his 3rd birthday. At least now I am fully prepared. Thanks for the warning!