The Peanut Chronicles

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Good, bad and ugly

Today Nut and I took a grad adventure together. Today, Nut and I went into Metropolis on the subway. It was quite the event, seeing as Nut hadn’t been on the subway since I was pregnant with him. But I digress…

Nut and I went to metropolis because I felt like walking him around a big city for a while and not saying in the burbs like we usually do on Saturdays. While walking around the downtown area we stumbled across a little shop called “Giggle.” This boutique is a small national chain of baby stuff. They sort through all of what is available these days for babies and chose “the best for your child”. So if I don’t shop here am I not getting the best for my child? They take the guessing out of everything.

Of course I had to push the SUV in to the store. Duh!

Immediately I am greeted by Paul, a friendly young lad who showed me around the store and more importantly… to the parent’s lounge that you can use for feeding and diapers. By the way he was looking at my chest I could tell he either thought I needed to feed Nut or that I was just hot. (Hey buddy, my eyes are about a foot north of there.)

Nut slept through the whole spree I went on. What was HILAROUS was the stuffed animals they had. They had the “uglies”. Oh yes, you read that right… the uglies. These are little ugly stuffed animals that have names and stories to go with them. My god, they were funny. I bought Nut one of them. Her name is “Tray” (yeah, according to the story it’s a girl. Who knew?) Tray had three eyes and three brains. She looks like a cross between Maggie Simpson and an Ameba. I love her. So does Nut.

But here is what was funny about the Uglies. All the names were simple things like Tray, Blob, etc… except one. There was one that was called “minimum wage.”

Nope, not kidding.

Minimum wage has a beautiful little apron on him too. Now, is it just me or are the people at Giggle trying to make a political statement here? Because, let’s face it folks, minimum wage in this country is exactly what the doll is: it’s ugly.

I would have bought Nut that one but I decided he is too young to push my political views on him. Yes, I bought him Tray instead.

Today Nut it 3 months old, that’s how I justify the spoiling.