Remember when the best part of Christmas morning for the rugrats was playing with the box their gift came in?
You know you've passed the point of no return when you hear the following:
T: Hey, Buddy! I brought you a present!
Jack: What is it???
T: (in the patient, sing-song voice parents use to let kids know when to be enthusiastic)
It's a pennant! It's a special baseball flag! It says "Washington Nationals"!
Jack: Wow! A pennant!
*pause*
Jack: (in the sing-song voice kids use to let parents know they're humoring them)
... and did you bring me something else? Something to play with????
And thus the child experiences the first of many parental disappointments.
We are so being shipped off to a nursing home some day.
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