Reply #19: When my son was five we gave him a Fischer-Price kitchen -- and a Tonka [View All]

My in-laws were staying with us that Christmas. My Southern Baptist in-laws. They listen to nothing but Christian music, have bible verses on all the pictures in there home, their entire lives center around their church. Anyway, when all the kids went to bed and we started laying out the stuff around the tree, they freaked when we brought out the Fischer-Price plastic kitchen monstrosity, even though it was placed right next to his big honkin' yellow Tonka trunk. "What are you doing?! What do you want him to turn into?!" they shrieked at us.

I calmly said "a guy who knows how to cook his own dinner?" as if I didn't know what they were referring to.

Christmas morning, he went straight for the kitchen...for about three seconds, then was all over the honkin' yellow Tonka dump trunk.

He's engaged to a wonderful girl now. And he knows how to cook and fix stuff around the house!

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