Attracted to shiny things
David is now taken with the idea of starting a collection.
He got this mainly from the new idiotic segue bits that PBS has decided to BLATANTLY copy from either Nickelodeon or Noggin. Not having cable, I have no idea which kid's channel it is, but when I go to the neighbor's house I routinely see it. (I also notice a tremendous amount of TV ON whenever I'm at the neighbor's house, but that's a discussion for another day. And I'm unusually anti-TV, too. For anyone looking to make my day, I'm still lusting after a TV-B-gone.)
Anyway, the segue segments come on between shows to try and capture your interest from one show to the next (heaven forbid you should, say, turn the set OFF or anything.) and they chatter about pointless, inane and brain-cell killing topics ad nauseum...kinda like The View for kids.
One of these topics was on starting a collection. David started his own collection shortly thereafter...of dead batteries. He's got five of them carefully stored on a shelf. We discussed this a bit and apparently he finds them aesthetically appealing...particularly the green one. Uh...OK.
A short time later he found some quarters and got to looking at them. He soon discovered that not all quarters have the same pictures on the back, and he begged and pleaded to keep the ''music one.'' (Tennessee) A few hours later he discovered different state quarter and then asked if it were possible to collect money. ''Sure,'' I told him. ''Lots of people collect coins. Your grandpa used to have a coin collection.'' So he's on a mission to collect all 50 state quarters. Unfortunately, he LOST his Tennessee quarter and we haven't found another yet.
His grandpa would be all over this in a heartbeat. I can just see him carefully storing up quarters for David's next visit, and I can also see David jumping up and down with excitement at his grandfather’s extravagance, too.
He got this mainly from the new idiotic segue bits that PBS has decided to BLATANTLY copy from either Nickelodeon or Noggin. Not having cable, I have no idea which kid's channel it is, but when I go to the neighbor's house I routinely see it. (I also notice a tremendous amount of TV ON whenever I'm at the neighbor's house, but that's a discussion for another day. And I'm unusually anti-TV, too. For anyone looking to make my day, I'm still lusting after a TV-B-gone.)
Anyway, the segue segments come on between shows to try and capture your interest from one show to the next (heaven forbid you should, say, turn the set OFF or anything.) and they chatter about pointless, inane and brain-cell killing topics ad nauseum...kinda like The View for kids.
One of these topics was on starting a collection. David started his own collection shortly thereafter...of dead batteries. He's got five of them carefully stored on a shelf. We discussed this a bit and apparently he finds them aesthetically appealing...particularly the green one. Uh...OK.
A short time later he found some quarters and got to looking at them. He soon discovered that not all quarters have the same pictures on the back, and he begged and pleaded to keep the ''music one.'' (Tennessee) A few hours later he discovered different state quarter and then asked if it were possible to collect money. ''Sure,'' I told him. ''Lots of people collect coins. Your grandpa used to have a coin collection.'' So he's on a mission to collect all 50 state quarters. Unfortunately, he LOST his Tennessee quarter and we haven't found another yet.
His grandpa would be all over this in a heartbeat. I can just see him carefully storing up quarters for David's next visit, and I can also see David jumping up and down with excitement at his grandfather’s extravagance, too.
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