new parents' revenge -- *cue circus music*....

i went to a baby shower today in palos verdes, which is close to a one hour drive from door-to-door. for the gift i bought a pretty cool gadgety gizmo where the new lil whippersnapper can lay on the floor and touch parts of this arch and sounds and lights happen. i thought twice when i got it because it's a toy that makes noise, and i know how i so hated any toys that little had that were incessant fornogoodreason noisemakers, but this seemed a lil more educational (yeah, that's my answer and i'm sticking with it). welp, i guess when i wrapped the gift this morning i activated the demo mode and before long this large box of lights and sounds was going off every minute, and it was fully wrapped, and i had no more cutesy babyshower wrapping paper so i could not rip it open and deactivate it. so i drove from weho to p.v., in more traffic than usual of course, and blasted my music as loud as i could without destroying the little's hearing but just enough to drown out the sound of the toy emanating from the jump seat of my wagon (dammit, i just realized a reason to have a trunk). in retrospect, i probably should have gotten them a card that says "i'm sorry" for this gift i got you rather than "congratulations on your new baby". pppfffttttt.