TheMommyBlog

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

So I thought I would be a total hero last night, because Logan’s 4-DVD set of “The Life of Mammals” arrived in the mail from our trusty EBay seller. In China. Hey, some of the writing was in Chinese, but the seller swore that the contents were exactly the same as on the sets sold here. Can you just see the SUCKER brand beggining to emerge on my forehead?

We tore off the wrapping (there were upwards of a dozen interesting-looking postage stamps on it) and popped the DVD for “Meat Eaters” into the machine and settled back on the couch. Nothing. Then, “Check disc for scratches or dust.” Then, the machine refused to give up the DVD.

“Mommy?”

“Hmmmm?” (Dreading the exchange coming up in 5,4,3,2,1...)

“Why isn’t it working?”

“Well, I think that these movies we got from China don’t go very well with our player.”

(Angrily) “Well, that wasn’t very smart!”

“Huh?”

“That was dumb of the mailman to get them from China! He should have gotten them from California!”

“Um, honey, the mailman didn’t choose them, I did. And even if he did, it might hurt his feelings to hear you say that.”

“Oh. Well, maybe that wasn’t the best way. Maybe you should have bought them from someone in California.”

So I did. For almost double the cost, which brings the total I have spent on this very excellent series narrated by none other than Richard Attenborough to exactly four dollars more than the retail price listed on Amazon.com.