The kid’s meal at Chick-fil-A usually has educational books or toys. Most likely it is something the boys play with for a few moments and then discard. The books go into our bookshelf to be read later. The toys usually find their way into the trash or donation bin.

This week Chick-fil-A’s bonus in the child’s meal is this insect model:



Reid was thrilled. He wanted to put it together at the restaurant, but because I am such a wise mommy I encouraged waiting until we got home so I could help with less distraction.



I started on the instructions. Following each fairly vague direction to the best of my ability.

My mommy assembly resume is impressive:
1. Ikea furniture.
2. Transformers (into and out of the action figure/motor vehicle).
3. Legos.
4. Magnet sets.
5. Tinker Toys.
I could go on. Let’s just say, I can put things together.

Approximately an HOUR later I had produced this:



Not bad! It resembles a dragonfly.



Reid took one look at it and started to complain…



“It is missing a wing.”
“You didn’t put it together right.”
“This is upside down.”

Details!
Details!
Details!

I thought I had adequately hidden this:



Oops. Extra wing. Really, who needs more than one?

Let’s review what I accomplished in the last hour.

I took this…



…and turned it into this:



About that time blog-Stedman came in from work. He took one look at my dragonfly and stated:

“It is missing a wing.”
“You didn’t put it together right.”
“This is upside down.”

Details!
Details!
Details!

I handed him the disfigured dragonfly and the instructions and told him to go fix it.

About 30 minutes later he returned with this:



Overachiever.

Note to Chick-fil-A: Your child’s toy took two people with a combined 13 years of higher education 1 1/2 hours to assemble.

Right before bed tonight, Reid was holding his dragonfly close to his heart and said, “I can’t wait until we go back to Chick-fil-A and get the bumble bee…”



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58 Comments

  1. I feel your pain! My husband and I did the dance of joy when our girls outgrew barbie. We were all tuckered out from assembling her houses and cars and chairs and pet shops and hair salons and dr’s offices…

  2. Those toys are maddening to say the least. When they are that hard to put together they conveniently get lost. Can’t wait to hear about the bumble bee.

  3. Thank goodness those days are over. You’re giving me flashbacks to a certain Lego Native American village some years ago.

  4. Ok, but can we all agree that Wendy’s toys end up going straight to the garbage. Seriously, always paper. Always little pieces. Die!

  5. I leave any type of assembly for my husband. He’s the one with the engineering degree so I figure he might as well put it to use.

    If something needs business administrating, then I’m your girl!

    I think you did a fabulous job!

  6. I have no comment worthy of a post this DANG funny. Funny because I have SO BEEN there.

    Transformers? are you kidding me? Seriously…they are so bleepin hard. I actually CRIED trying to help my son one night. Okay I was PMS and drinking wine. BUT STILL.

  7. So…I have to admit that I spent an entire post one time complaining about ChickFilA toys. But I get it – this bug is cool. For my girls … not so much….but cool for Reid.