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January 18, 2009 by Texasholly
Filed under family, feature, fun, stories
We recently visited the Chick-fil-A at 2499 & 3040. OK, to be honest, it is a second home for us.
The kid’s meal at Chick-fil-A usually has educational books or toys. Most likely it is something the boys play with for a few moments and then discard. The books go into our bookshelf to be read later. The toys usually find their way into the trash or donation bin.
This week Chick-fil-A’s bonus in the child’s meal is this insect model:
Reid was thrilled. He wanted to put it together at the restaurant, but because I am such a wise mommy I encouraged waiting until we got home so I could help with less distraction.
I started on the instructions. Following each fairly vague direction to the best of my ability.
My mommy assembly resume is impressive:
1. Ikea furniture.
2. Transformers (into and out of the action figure/motor vehicle).
3. Legos.
4. Magnet sets.
5. Tinker Toys.
I could go on. Let’s just say, I can put things together.
Approximately an HOUR later I had produced this:
Not bad! It resembles a dragonfly.
Reid took one look at it and started to complain…
“It is missing a wing.”
“You didn’t put it together right.”
“This is upside down.”
Details!
Details!
Details!
I thought I had adequately hidden this:
Oops. Extra wing. Really, who needs more than one?
Let’s review what I accomplished in the last hour.
I took this…
…and turned it into this:
About that time blog-Stedman came in from work. He took one look at my dragonfly and stated:
“It is missing a wing.”
“You didn’t put it together right.”
“This is upside down.”
Details!
Details!
Details!
I handed him the disfigured dragonfly and the instructions and told him to go fix it.
About 30 minutes later he returned with this:
Overachiever.
Note to Chick-fil-A: Your child’s toy took two people with a combined 13 years of higher education 1 1/2 hours to assemble.
Right before bed tonight, Reid was holding his dragonfly close to his heart and said, “I can’t wait until we go back to Chick-fil-A and get the bumble bee…”
When Holly isn’t assembling complicated kid’s meal toys, she can be found entertaining her boys at her Flower Mound home or on the internet entertaining herself at June Cleaver Nirvana.
moondogtreasures on Sun, 18th Jan 2009 8:12 am
This is hilarious! We got one of those packets the other day too. My son traded his for ice cream! Good trade!
nicole on Mon, 19th Jan 2009 7:07 pm
Kids Meal toys are the bane of my existence. Because of this, we try to only get food at places with dollar menus. Cheaper and less crap to clean up later.