Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - Raving Bonkers Revisited

Yesterday I submitted a business proposal that I had worked on for 3 hours on Sunday. I was asked to put the proposal together prior to an interview, which is a new one on me, however I suppose I have to play the game in order to get a job. If I do get this position it will mean relocating to Baltimore, Maryland, which is somewhere I have never been. The only thing I know about Baltimore is that Edgar Allen Poe was from there, which is kind of scarey!

After e-mailing the proposal I submitted more applications and called my headhunter.

 Elina and I then decided to head out and buy a tricycle for our boy's birthday present, which is on the 10th. So off we set in the Jeep for a visit to Toys R Us, for the relatively simple task of buying the 10" Radio flyer tricycle which we had decided would be best suited to him, since it also has a handle so that we can push the trike to and from the park.

We visited the store, to find it was was messy, no-one to help  and disorganized only to find this store did not have the tricycle we wanted. We got chatting with another customer who directed us to another Toys R Us located about 4 - 5 miles away, Elina  thanked her for the directions and we headed out to the next location.

I get kind of irritable when they don't have what I want at a store however we decided to proceed to the next one as advised, which meant putting James back in his car seat and his stroller in the back of the Jeep, after doing so Elina closed the rear door of the Jeep on my head which further infuriated me. Off we went and when we got close to where I thought the store was I conferred with Elina as to the directions the lady in store number 1 had given us, each of us presumed the other was listening to the directions, when in fact neither of us had, however I followed my instincts to where I thought the store was, while continuing to bicker with Elina who thought it was in the opposite direction.

 After finding it and after another trek around the second store, which was equally untidy and devoid of employees we discovered this store did not have the trike either. I did however manage to pick up the newly re-released  classic Raving Bonkers ( Rock em Sock em Robots) for James, which coincidently I never had when I was a kid . We then came back to the parking lot trike-less to discover our Jeep covered in fresh pigeon shit.

When I got home I went on-line and ordered the trike in mere minutes with the added  bonus' of free shipping and no sales tax, I then proceeded to take out the afternoon's frustrations on my two year old with numerous pugilistic robot victories.

All I have to say about shopping for a 2 year olds birthday tricycle is....................... BOLLOCKS!!!!!!!