Evil Becomes Me
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Evil becomes me…
Pei Yee has given birth to a healthy baby boy!!! Congratulations to her and the proud father :D!!!
And we indulged in what usually follows a happy occasion such as this… and cracked our heads to get the proud parents (and baby) a gift (also an excuse to check out cute happy colourful joyful (some preponderous) baby things! – like seriously…. a baby Porshe??!?!?!).
After many concussed sleepless nights, we decided on a baby monitor… one of those walkie talkie lookie likie thingies… only cause it’s for baby and mommy, it’s not in chrome or black.. but in bright green with a pastel orange handle… with happy lemon yellow buttons that summon soothing music… such a happy gift!!!!
So it came to be that Rosie and I volunteered to get the pressie.
The weight and trust of a whole bunch of us contributing to the gift on the shoulders of the both of us…. both librans… oh boy….*looks heavenwards, saying a little prayer*
Praying they’d have just ONE kind of them baby monitor thingies so it’ll be a point, pay and package procedure DIDN’T work…. Horror of horrors… they stocked TWO kinds of baby monitors….
Time stood still….
Rosie and I looked at each other… each holding Baby Monitor #1 and Baby Monitor # 2 in our hands, then wordlessly looked down, flipped the boxes over, and started reading….
Of course, we did the informed consumer thing and played “spot the difference”.
Both had similar functions…. They even used the same wording…. Lucky us! This part… not so tricky…
The tricky part came later….
Both came in DIFFERENT COLOURS!!!!!!!!!!
Oh man….
2 librans + 2 colours = 2 long to decide!!!!!!!!
So some 20 minutes or flipping from one colour to another later, and (of course) 2 phone calls to our respective life lines later, we FINALLY decided!!!
We were going with the green set…
And being smart consumers, we decided to test the product before making the purchase….
The product label said “100m distance (something something)….”. The length of the store was maybe 60 feet…. As in …. We could hear each other talking normally, each standing at one end of the store…. BUT….. try it out we must…
So I grabbed 1 half of the baby walkie talkie set and walked to the back of the store, Rosie stayed at the front of the store with the other….
Our watches synchronised, we plugged them in and WERE IN BUSINESS!!!!!
It’s amazing how talking into a happily coloured walkie talkie set can set one off into a giggly fit just like that…. so there we were, 2 thirty-somethings, in our proper office attire (Rosie with a jacket too), giggling into our green, yellow and orange walkie talkie sets…
Then, after 2 minutes of giggly nonsense, I realised that I was holding the Mommy part of the walkie talkie set and she, the Baby’s.
So in the straightest voice I could muster I said :-
Booker : “Rosie, I think to test this thing
out properly, one of us has to cry”.
Rosie : *giggles*
Booker : “And since you’re holding the Baby walkie talkie
piece, I have no choice but to let you cry…”
Rosie : “Hah!???!? Laugh can or not????”
Booker : “No Rosie, we’re getting this so they can hear
the baby crying… you HAVE to cry”
Rosie : “HAAAAAAH!!??!??!?!”
[reluctantly] “Oka……." *light bulb moment*
“JOYCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Booker : *Damn! I was so close!!!*
I generally try to live my life being kind and compassionate… but sometimes… sometimes… evil becomes me. *:D*
