Doobins and the Baggie of Legos
Today’s picture is courtesy of Mr. Doobins.
Doobins is in his Star Wars Lego phase, and a fine phase it is. He has shown a lot of creativity in coming up with his own starship designs.
From time to time, he feels the need for some new pieces to work with. Often, we go online, find something that looks good and order it.
When it’s something official such as a spaceship, we put it together according to the directions once it arrives. It usually lasts no more than a day in the official form before he dismantles it and adds the parts to the storehouse of raw materials that he calls upon for his creations.
Every now and then I throw in a bonus gift that I don’t tell him is coming. A couple of days after one such bonus arrived, Garnet said, he came in carrying a baggie filled with Legos.
When Garnet asked him what it was for, he said, “Kim gave me a surprise so I’m going to give him a surprise.”
A little while later, Garnet came upon him sitting in the corner where he works on his projects. The baggie was empty and he was using the Legos that had been in it to put together a new spaceship design.
Garnet said she didn’t say anything but, when he noticed her looking at him, he got really huffy and said, “I never did ask him for that prize.”
If I’m just going for a laugh, I stop the story there.
The truth is, though, that I heard that story only after I came over and he handed me a spaceship that he had designed to give me as a thank-you. So somewhere in there, he reconsidered and followed his original impulse.
I sure do like that boy.
