(apparently) easy to part with

A toy such as this can be fun for quite a while - especially when you aim it at your brother or sister. I doubt that we lost all the discs that get placed inside this crab before being shot out by releasing a spring, but they certainly were misplaced, and without them, the limited fun this offers is even more severely limited.


Toys that today come with children's meals are more electronically complex than anything I knew as a kid. I don't remember what this one did, but it was something rather impressive - for a couple of weeks. Nobody objected to it being moved to the discard pile.


We don't collect keychains in our family, which means, I guess, that we're lucky that there's at least one thing that we don't collect. This was a cute, even pleasant, shelf item for a while - probably received as a birthday present. I don't think anybody remembers who gave it to whom, and of course it doesn't matter, though frankly I expected Hila to decide that she wanted to keep it. I can't say that I mind that she didn't.



This was probably purchased for a plane trip - otherwise I'd probably have refused to buy it, though I have been known to give in to continual pressure from my children. And of course it doesn't really matter that the parents were right and that this stayed functional only about as long as it maintained my boys' interest (though probably less) which wasn't very long. Sometimes you have to agree to buy certain objects, even when you know better. And though we've now parted with this particular toy, there's little reason to assume that some sort of lesson has been learned, and that we won't be pressured to purchase something similar in the not too distant future.