Proud dads...
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- Nairn2
Got home last week to see a small kids scooter-thing in the kitchen. I was a bit miffed, as I'd wanted to buy one for my daughter, but as I look to my partner, I see her face tells me that she's not happy about this either. Turns out she'd been chatting with a friend a few days prior, saying something like "We're looking forward to getting [NAIRNSPAWN] a scooter", which set off entirely the wrong bulb in the friend's head, so she turned up a couple of days later with one in hand. She'd depackaged it and put it together, and brought it to a socially-distanced meet-up in the park, and I entirely appreciate how she thought that this was a lovely thing to do. But now I can't choose a scooter for my daughter.
I'd been looking forward to for months - she's just about at that right stage to have one.
Bunch of fucker.
It's not a bad scooter, but it's not great either, and certainly not what I'd've chosen for her (it's pink, for a start).
I thought I'd managed to accientally break it the other night, when re-setting the height, but it turns out I hadn't. I can't forgive purposefully breaking something just to buy another - that's... not Gaia-friendly, man.
What to do?
- "Just buy another" is the obvious answer - but then what about friend's feelings? Personally, I just want to say to her "thanks, but you REALLY shouldn't've"Nairn
- Replace with the one you like and make something up. It's not a puppy, it's a scooter.ben_
- But partner, who's childhood friend it is, doesn't want to hurt feelings yadda yadda, whilst her own feelings are hurt.
Humans are such pussies.Nairn - Donate the pink one to charity and tell your friend your daughter has better taste than they gave her credit for.ben_
- hahaha @ last noteNairn
- Ah no hurt feelings, got it. If their feelings are hurt over a fucking scooter, well...ben_
- ffs stop being so precious - she's not going to hate you because her scooter came from someone other than papa.hans_glib
- when she grows out of /breaks it you can get her the gold plated one you want.hans_glib
- Aye, for sure - that's why i'd like to, in my own polite but blunt Northern way just explain things, and then we can have 6 months of 2 scooters beforeNairn
- We've had some success with donating all the bright pink and flashing toys to local charities... friends and family can't seem to help themselves and we've runben_
- ...the pink one goes to a charity shop.
I just don't get why someone would do that. It's like the modern equivalent of a first bike, especially in London.Nairn - out of excuses that make them feel good. We're spending money on having her in a Montessori school, so they just have to understand, I guess.ben_
- @hans - not sure why my daughter would hate me for this. you seem to miss the point that I wanted to choose this myself, with my partner. It was A Thing for us.Nairn
- Presumably that's what my partner told her friend, and which then got misconstrued.Nairn
- i don't get why someone would do that either, maybe she thinks you're too poor? *trollfacehans_glib
- worry, not, we had multiple scooters at the same time (still have for youngest). They don't last long, especially the pinks ones :)fadein11
- Just be honest and explain you're thankful, but had a different one in mind for your kid.aliastime
- have a cool one, and the 'Disney Princess' one for indoor use lolfadein11
- But let's cut to the chase... scooters should be banned. Skateboard, Bike, Unicycle, Land Skis, Wiggle Turtles? yep.ben_
- wtf's a Wiggle Turtle?!Nairn
- https://www.youtube.…ben_
- ride or die, bitch.ben_
- https://www.youtube.… - sorry, with soundtrack intact.ben_
- !
I saw a kid on a variant of this with an electric motor in the back of it. A wee ~7 year old, tearing up the local park. Envy doesn't describe what i felt.Nairn - This type of thing drives me CRAZY. My in laws are always buying us stuff, but it's stuff I want to buy, and it's never what I would have chosen exactly. :(monospaced
- Learning to set boundaries with others is a valuable life skill.noRGB
- Sometimes it isn’t worth the trouble.monospaced
- A little late to this, but have two scooters. Friends will need one to ride. We have 3 and they all get used.lemmy_k
- It's been 2 months, what did you do?lemmy_k
- So far, nothing. Getting the most use out of it 'til I can pop to a very local skate/etc store post lockdown with kid in tow so we can choose together.Nairn
- tbf, it DOES have wheels that light up when they spin, which kid loves, so .. yeah. Oh well. It's fine enough for now, even if i loathe it.Nairn
- Yeah, light up wheels are the bees knees for little kids. Kids happy and that's what matters.lemmy_k