I have always been completely unable to put things together. I think I must be missing some portion of the brain that enables one to successfully follow directions and produce a finished piece of work. I’ve pathetically payed Ikea employees to put their cheapo furniture together, thus totally defeating the bargain prices. Last year, after slaving over it for five hours, I discovered that I put Ben’s train table together upside down. I vowed to never again attempt such a feat. It’s just not worth it.
So, you can imagine my dismay when I found this in my children’s meals from Chick-fil-A this evening.
I mean, seriously? Is the seriously the toy that comes in a children’s meal? Can you see the PAGE of directions?! There are steps, with sub-steps. What the fuck???
Being own my own for the evening, I really wanted to be the “good” parent for a change. I figured chicken nuggets and chocolate milk would do the trick, and they did for the .2 seconds it took my children to inhale them. They were quickly overshadowed by my inability (and flat out refusal) to spend the evening putting this stupid paper bug together. Who has time for this shit? Not me, thank you very much. The next time I want to treat my kids, I’m heading to McDonald’s, where the Happy Meals come with toys requiring zero assembly and the fries need no extra salt. I’m done with you, Chick-fil-A. Until you rethink the toys, that is.
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The scary thing about the McD’s toys tho? Swear to God, they multiply overnight.
Thank came in the kids meal? I would take it to back and ask them to put it together. Geez, what are they thinking?
Too funny! I’d probably spend an hour putting it together then they would forget about it by the time I was done or play with it for just 5 minutes! Go for McD’s then throw the toy away after the 5 minutes of play ~ that’s what I do!
This is why I just buy the kids food off the dollar menu and don’t even get those silly meals with junky toys that just end up in the garbage.
Ya…ditch the Chik’fil’A joint….and move on to the oh-so-much-happier meal at McDonalds! No way I could put that thing together…except maybe a paper airlplane!! What a rip…you should have taken it back in and had the manager put it together!!
No way! There is no way I could have had a happy evening with that thing. That is ridiculous!
I love Chick Fil A but the toys are never good there, unfortunately.
Now if only Starbucks could throw in a toy with their $2 cookies, that’d be awesome.
Hah. I got one of these the other day and actually thought it would be fun to put together. But mine was a grasshopper or something.
LOL yucky!
Shame on Chic-Fil-A for trying to educate your kids ;)
Wow…that is quite a toy. Sounds like I need to go to graduate school just to be able to understand it.
That is so funny! And my son HATES Chick-Fil-A — not because of the food but because of the toys. “These are not fun Mommy. I want to eat at McDonalds. They have the good toys.”
Yeah, we didn’t love that toy too much either at my house. We cannot, however, be done with the Chick because they’re play area is SO AWESOME!
he he he
those bugs were awesome!
you should have seen the paper airplanes they did a while back
next time send them to me
I love putting them together(but I also love putting together Gus’ legos)
last time I went to Mickey D’s they were advertising 2 toys in each happy meal
I got eight shrek dolls!
argggggh
get way of your old toys another way ronald!!!!
That is insanity? Why do they have to make us feel bad about our lack of engineering degrees in front of our children?
Bastards.
I “accidentally” left this in the cart at the store. Baby Girl forgot all about it. Thank God.
Wonder who the Marketing genius was who thought that up. I mean, you can’t be the only disgruntled parent.
I would not be happy to find a bug of ANY fashion in my child’s meal.
Period.
Wow, who would have thought you would have to be a graduate of MIT to put that together. I don’t like Chick-fil-A – their prices are too high and their food is not that great. But koodos for trying to feed your kids something healthier than junk food.
Chik Fil A probably thought it was something educational they could do for innovative little engineer children : ). Who knows. We don’t have one near us and the play land they have is for toddlers, so even if they did have one close by, we could not enjoy the activities!
I am sorry about that train table! Were you annoyed to no end? I can’t even imagine!
OMG, what the fuck is right. “some assembly required” should mean 2-3 stickers to place on plastic toy. The end. Even Scary Mommy can do stickers!
:-)
I would totally boycott Chik -filet if we had the here….
So glad I stopped by today..I totally needed my “fuck” fix…. feeling much better now.
I just want to tell you that you have the funniest ways of writing about the most perfect things we all deal with. This was the funniest post, and when I saw instruction assembly manual picture I thought I was going to fall off my chair. Thanks for the great laughs.
they should call this an unhappy meal.
I just started readibng your blog and MUST comment here while I laugh!
I’ve taken my kids to Ckick-Fil-A a couple times and received the most imposible items in their kids meals. Anyting made of paper is instantly shredded here!
Seeing this I will definaately avoid them! What part of “kids” meal are they not understanding! McDonalds here we come!
Funnily enough, my 2 older kids (5 and 3) are sitting at the table next to me snacking and playing with their CFA preying mantis. Fortunately, I didn’t have to put it together myself, but it did take my husband almost as long as it took me to cook dinner!
This is three times now that i’ve landed on your website in the last two days while searching Bing for absolutely unrelated things. Kinda odd. Keep up the good blogging!
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