Welcome to the LEGO aisle....
plus about 50 more "licensed sets" and each "licensed theme" has about 50 boxed sets. So there are 50ish scenes to build for CARS, STAR WARS, etc. I'm sure if you have a boy you are laughing your booty off!
I call Ashley in sheer panic mode. Ashley fully understands the LEGO world and tells me what to buy...
So when I get home, I ask Shane, "When you were little did LEGOs come in sets?" Knowing me, he didn't laugh hysterically, but just responded, "yes". Then to make it worse, I go on to ask,
"so when you got a new "set", when you opened it did you pour those pieces into a Ziplock bag and cutout the picture to place in the bag too?" Again, since he knows me so well, he says kindly, "No, you just dump them all into one big bucket." Oh LORD!!! OCD Mom CANNOT handle this. And I have a zillion questions...
How do you build the helicopter again?
Why would you want to mix Toy Story pieces with Star Wars pieces?
Did you separate them by color, or shape?
Shane's answer: It's about imagination. You just dump over the bucket and build anything you want. No way...not happening in my house...
As a consolation, he says, "there are crazy LEGO people who have LEGO rooms and they keep their LEGO sets in bags" So he just called me a "crazy LEGO person"....
So I'm still completely baffled by this "mixing of the sets" while I'm getting dressed for the party. And then Shane hits me with the zinger...
"Do you ever take apart a scrapbooking kit and use it in other ways than it was intended?" I stumble and say, "No, I mean maybe, (defeated)...Ok, yes...." And cheerfully says, "See, it's the same thing"...
He may think he won this one, but I could NEVER handle the mixing of the LEGOs!!!!! For the record...scrapbooking and LEGO mixing is NOT the same thing!!!!!!
3 comments:
I totally know what you mean. My little nephew is 8 and a LEGO fanatic and I think I have a panic attack when I go into his room and see the 100s of dollars that I have spent on his, carefully picked, LEGOs all in one big basket. Ughhh. But it is kinda the same thing!
I vote they are two totally different things! Thank goodness I had a girl b/c legos would drive me crazy too.
Hhhhmmm, wrap your head around this one... Jerry kept his sets in pristine condition, he only played with Jake's sets that were dumped together in the bins. Years I battled those things, tried very hard to keep them sorted, space legos vs dino vs military and throw in 5 other kinds of "blocks", perfectly explains why I'm mentally damaged.
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