The Mad Bull's Blog

June 09, 2005

Its the Thought that Counts...

On the way home from work, I had the great idea to stop at Grand Harbour and pick up a DVD for MBJr. I found out that Blockbuster had got "The Son of the Mask", which MBJr. had been dying to see, because he has been properly primed for it by watching all those Kiddie channels I let him watch so that I can get my blogging on....

Well, hey, I get primed to watch shyte too, so I'm not against MBJr. getting to watch his show, so I felt pretty damned good when I picked up that DVD for him... "I'm going to be a star in his eyes, I am!", I thought.

While I was selecting the movie, Natty went next door to Hurleys, ostensibly to buy some snacks, but really, she was focused on a mission to maintain first place in her son's heart. Tonight, apparently, she has struck the death blow! While she pushed her trolley innocently along Hurley's aisles, she (seemingly innocently) picked up this electric blue, see-thru digital watch! She didn't say a thing to me, probably because she didn't want to surrender the advantage of surprise!

When we walked into the house, I was there parading before MBJr. like a performing seal, eagerly seeking applause. "What movie is that? Who da man?!"I said "Who da man!". Say my name, bebe!".

Natty however, waited until all the fanfare was over and just pulled the little watch from a bag and said, "MBJr, look, I got this for you...". Thats it, no fanfare or anything, and just like that, I dropped into ~~last place~~ second place! After I had affixed the watch to his wrist, (yes, the woman is sadistic! She forced me to strap on the instrument which caused my own demise! Women are eeee-vil!) the little man was so distracted that even during the movie's highest moments, he was ignoring the movie to say stuff like this:

MBJr. : "70:180, Dad!".
Dad : "No, son, that is 7:15. Thats not an 8, its a 5."...
Mbjr : "7:20 already! I'm shocked!". I thought it would go to 7:19 first!".
Dad : "It did, son, its just that you didn't look for awhile... time waits for no man, y'know!".
MBJr. : "Well, its 7:21 now!".
Dad : "Yes, MBJr.".

" " "
" " "
" " "
MBJr. : Dad, is it 17:45?".
No, son, its 7:45!".
etc.... etc.... etc...

Never mind! I don't care which gift he prefers... I'm just thrilled that he likes his watch! (and he is watching the movie... sort of... )

Listen, I love my son very much! I am just thrilled that he likes his gifts, from both of us! Really I am!

No, I DO NOT think my wife is a subversive, and I never said she is a wicked witch-spy, bent on taking all my son's love away from me! I didn't! I didn't, I say... No, I didn't say she was a witch AND a spy either!

You believe me, don't you, honey? Don't you?

Oh well, I guess nothing nah gwaan for me tonight, huh?

Posted by Mad Bull at June 09, 2005 09:07 PM

Comments

hey what's up? it's me Aurie. Experience Aurie dot com.

I am in the process of deleting that page. i have a new page. it's alot sleeker in my opinion and there is less clutter. i was wondering if you would change the link to this one and title it Aurie's Blog 24/7.

Thanks again and I love your "Dis Ain't No Dew Rain!" entry. it had me rolling. I told all my peoples to give it a good read.

Till next time then...

Posted by: Aurie on June 9, 2005 09:42 PM

Aurie, I strongly suspect that you didn't read my post. You're a bad, bad boy!

Posted by: M.B. on June 9, 2005 09:53 PM

Well i did - bro - yu mad...sick...head nuh good!

Posted by: 7 on June 10, 2005 12:13 AM

Did he mention that he also brought home tickets to Jamaica? When MBJ saw that (i saw 2 bags on the table and the helper told me that he had packed for JA) he said " THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE BEST DAY EVER! THANKS TO DAD BUYING US TICKETS TO JAMAICA!"

Posted by: natty on June 10, 2005 07:35 AM

cuhdear de wuman unfair you then. :-)

Posted by: jdid on June 10, 2005 10:54 AM