Do you guys have these toys, too? The kind that spontaneously start making noise or flash their lights or otherwise turn on out of the blue, when nobody is within ten feet of them? And make you feel, for a moment, like you're in some mediocre horror movie? Except, the haunted toys aren't so much creepy as they are, well, annoying?
We've got this roller push-toy thing that, when you push it, shouts out "A! B! Ceeeeee!" in this androgynous, nasal voice and then plays the alphabet song. That is, it's supposed to. But it got left out in the yard a couple of times over the summer and got wet. (Also, um, I got it from the curb of a neighbor's house on garbage day.) So, now it only works intermittently, and primarily when no one is touching it. Alastair and I will be sitting there in the living room after the kids are in bed, reading aloud to each other from Dickens or discussing macro-economics, or, you know, watching 30 Rock, and suddenly this little voice will sound out from the toy boxes: "A!" (Actually, it's more like "A?") and we both jump.
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