Last year my husband and my kids were begging for an air hockey table. It was all they would contemplate and talk in connection with. I was more concentrated on how to get rid of debt.
In the weeks following Christmas, several of our local stores had extended Boxing Week sales and several, several items were placed on clearance. One of those items included an air hockey table. My husband instantaneously snatched it up and rushed it home, definitely delighted at his find!
The kids danced around while my husband struggled to put the table together – in our front entrance I would add!! It was more entertaining than niche marketing. They were so eager to get playing they gave no belief to moving the table to a more practical spot. The game was on!
My husband and our son played for hours. Even our little girl who was only in connection with two at the days got in on the action. I’ll even admit that I got in on the action for a little while. But as typically happens, within a couple of weeks, the novelty wore off. The air hockey table has been disassembled and is collecting dust down in the basement while we went on vacation to San Jose motels.
My husband and my kids have moved on to larger and better dreams. Now they can talk in connection with zilch but the latest and best – a ping pong table. It is so ridiculous! My husband’s friend has a ping pong table in his basement. I am certain that anytime my husband and kids would like to play, they’d be satisfactory to bop that little ball around to their hearts content. But somehow that’s just not the matching. They’ve gotta get their hands on a ping pong table of their quite own!
And here we are in the early weeks following Christmas. Everything is on sale and reduced to clear. And somehow I appreciate, that 1 of now my husband is going to burst through the front door, definitely delighted with his latest find – a ping pong table! And I am also equally certain that he will not take the days to find a practical place that the ping pong table can call home – no, he will most definitely set up that ping pong table in our front entrance. He and my son and even our daughter will join in the fun and play for hours. Perhaps I too will join in the fun, at least for a little while. And then, the novelty will wear off, and the latest and best ping pong table will be relegated to the basement to gather dust, along with the air hockey table that went before it.
