Six foot tall hairy adult sized young men can't stand on a toilet step and jump about, not even if it's making their little brothers laugh, because it breaks into a bazillion pieces - and has a big foot hole where the bit for standing used to be.
We need a toilet step. Boy no.3 and boy no.4 can't quite reach to pee without it, and taking off their trousers so that they can climb up onto the loo is not ideal, especially not at 3am, so boy no.2 had to replace it - immediately. With his own money.
Off he went, head down and annoyed to the nearest shop likely to sell a toilet step, and returned with something beyond our wildest expectations.
The King of all toilet steps, in a beautiful blue with a big smiley face and 2 huge foot-controlled buttons. It plays music! It has a button for teeth cleaning which plays a 2 minute tune, and a button for hand washing which plays a 30 second tune. The boys think it's fantastic, they love it, it's amazing, it was even "awesun". It's also incredibly loud at 1am when everyone else is asleep and I (being only 5 feet tall with little short legs) put my foot on it when I go to have a wee before bed. Techno it may be, but it's lacking a 24 hour clock....
Obviously I have the guilt now because I'd expected it to cost him about £3, and he had to use all of his hard earned £10. But there's a big lesson learned there, not only for him, but for all of our lot.....
Still.....I might let him sweep the drive later for a fiver if he's lucky......
That is the most amazing step I've ever seen - when my OH put his foot through Little Mr A's all we got to replace it was a Spongebob one!
ReplyDeleteAmazing is the word. We were stood there with our mouths open staring at it for a full 5 minutes....
DeleteIf they did it in 'Spongebob' it'd be perfect :D
The boy has taste. I don't know what the tune's like (hideous, I imagine), but the step itself looks really smart. Perhaps you should get him to break more stuff!
ReplyDeleteAnd it's very sweet of him to replace it, as well as providing the entertainment of bouncing and breaking!
DeleteHahaha. He is good with the little ones, just has that teenage tendency to be a bit daft at times. He didn't really have a choice about replacing it!
DeleteIt plays a selection of tunes in the style of a child's organ 'demo mode' :D
I like it, although Monkey seems quite happy with his plain one from Ikea :)
ReplyDeleteThat's what we have downstairs - the previous one upstairs was Toy Story :)
DeleteWe only have boring, bog standard IKEA steps. I'm quite jealous of that super step! I'm quite impressed that boy 2 didn't just come back with a couple of house bricks or something else free!
ReplyDeleteI know hahaha..... :D
Deletethis looks so colourful and useful , I am sure any kid would love to use it.
ReplyDeleteIt's still going strong! It's very handy actually - they carry it about the house to switch on lights and things :D
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