Why a duck is better than a shower radio for Christmas
My daughter should have been eating her supper, but she had gotten up to wander around the dining room. She saw an open flier from Linens & Things and started flipping through it. She saw a shower radio and really wanted it.
“Why”, I asked.
“Because its water-proof”, she said.
“Well so is a duck. And a duck is better than a shower radio”, I said back. “If you drop a shower radio, it breaks. If you drop a duck, it gets angry and starts quacking at you, but at least its still OK.”
I continued, “And if you throw your shower radio, it hits something and breaks. If you throw a duck, it just flies off. And if you drop your shower radio over the side of your boat it sinks. If you drop a duck it floats”.
She wasn’t convinced yet. I tried to explain to her that a shower radio doesn’t really play the guitar, it just plays songs where someone is playing the guitar. If you set your duck down on the strings of your guitar it sounds a lot like the guitarist from Iron Butterfly. Maybe she had me on that one.
Related posts:
November 29th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
There must be many more advantages to a duck for a Christmas Present compared to a shower radio.
If you set a shower radio in a box filled with hay, it just sits there. It might even rust, but will certainly get dusty. If you set a duck in a box filled with hay you might get eggs. Of course, not from the boy ducks, so be careful when you’re choosing one as a gift.