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What was Nerf thinking?
What was Blog-Stedman thinking?
He brought this arsenal home prior to Ryan’s birthday.
I bought 3!
One for each boy!
Thank God my boys are well-armed against each other…
It is at times like these it is very obvious that I am a girl. I look at these things and have an appreciation for how cool they are, but it would never enter my mind to bring them into my home.
I just don’t get it.
Neither did the clerk at Wal-Mart. When Blog-Stedman was checking out with this necessities, the woman at the check-out desk took one look at them,
felt they were all nerf-y,
turned each over carefully,
admired the Nerf workmanship,
and then declared, “Someone is STILL goin’ to end up hurt.”
Yep.
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They always get hurt- it’s attitude! My boys are in their late teens and besides the fact that they know me by my first name at the local ER, I still have visions of them really hurting eachother. We have every play gun, sword, lego weapon … you name it. What was I thinking? Oh well, the good news is that they are really good, well adjusted boys.
What a funny clerk.
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Wow, my boys would flip their lid over those. Somehow mine have acquired a few WOODEN swords, which I frequently have to confiscate. DANGER, Will Robinson!
That last line made me giggle. How true! Bless your heart for having three boys!!
Just wait… my 9-year old and all his friends are into Air Soft Guns, which are like BB Guns except with plastic pellets. This is only the beginning!
I am so appreciating the Nerf Two-Handed Battle-Axe. I’m considering the ad campaign. “For when a Nerf Hatchet just won’t get the job done….”
I think the Nerf would fail before my boys really got hurt. Oh, I’d hear a couple “He whacked me in the face!. Did not! Did too! He hit me in the face first!” before the sword broke in half. But more damage would be done to the sword than the kid. I think they are sort of cool actually.
Really, what was he thinking.
God Bless America, they have an axe too!!
My husband spied the swords at the store and almost wet himself. “I am getting these for me and the boy!”
*sigh* I can’t win. I just asked that he doesn’t hit him in the face because those glasses were expensive…
Is that a battle-axe???? Oh. My. Word. I am laughing so hard! Whatever happened to the simple Nerf dart gun?
My children are dying to own lightsabers (I guess to go along with Miss E.’s desire to have a Star Wars Party). I keep holding them off by saying “Mommy’s nerves can’t handle weapons in the house.”
I’m fighting the urge to shout “you’ll put your eye out!”
Which would be just odd, because Oldest is still at school and Youngest is napping, but still, it’s a strong urge.
When can we come over to play
Wally World checkers are so wise, aren’t they?
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ok – LOVE that!
I kinda like them. I want one!!!
But to give one to my sons… even though they are young. Nope not gonna happen. Or if it would go outside where I can’t hear your death screams.
I love that clerk though!
Swords, lightsabers, sticks… it doesn’t matter whether you buy them or they find them, boys love this stuff. Me, I hate it.
I couldn’t agree more with the Wal-mart clerk. We also have an arsenal of weapons, which my husband has purchased for our two boys. Everything always starts off fine, but within about 15 minutes someone is screaming, which is why all lightsabers and swords are now on the tippy-top shelf of my eldest son’s closet. Hopefully out of sight & out of mind.
LOLO. my husband is the instigator of most of the toy weapons ’round here, not to mention the superhero cartoons, war documentaries, etc. but yesterday even he had to agree that it had become too much when our six yo said “I wish this (nerf) gun was real so I could shoot someone and kill them” and then thought it funny when I expressed that such an idea made me sad because it would mean somebody dying. Aaagh, is this how someone’s child becomes a cold-blooded maniac?
I can see lamps being knocked over all over my house.