Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Don't buy toys

Emily's favorite new thing to play with is the salad spinner. She carefully takes it apart and then scrapes the bowl across the floor (yikes...). The cabinet it's in is now baby-proofed, so she crawls up to it and yanks on the door, over and over, until I open it. She also loves to play with the remote controls, and her daddy's old cellphone. Her actual toys? She likes some of them, sometimes, but on the whole, is indifferent.

I did a good deed today on my walk with Emily: I found a wallet on the sidewalk and turned it in to the Sheriff's Office at the mall. Not that I was tempted to keep it (for the simple reason that I hope if I lost my wallet, someone would do the same for me), and besides, I'm far too cowardly to go on a shopping spree with someone's credit cards--I assume I'd get caught right away. I was afraid that the officer would ask for my name, and I didn't want to give it, because it's just embarrassing for the other person, who would probably feel some need to do something nice in return. Anyway, he didn't, so it won't be a problem.

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