"um, how about this nice jigsaw puzzle?"
"it's not really an air rifle, is it mummy?"
"no... how about this box of lego?"
"Can I make an air rifle out of it?"
"why don't we make a truck?"
"I still want an air rifle, mummy"
ad nauseum
Oh yes, I've been there. Good luck with trying to find a distraction. Mine turned out to be plastic lightsabres.
I figure: go to Vinnies, buy a toy gun, [optionally, if you're an optimist] explain that it's to be used only in the back yard pointing AWAY from the house, let him go wild with it... and a week later, when he's forgotten it exists, take it back to Vinnies. Better to let him get bored with "bad" things than turn them into fetish objects.
: Bat :
Duck, If I'd been drinking anything when I read your commment it'd've come out my nose. Haven't laughed so hard all day. I know, distraction. The boy has a _lot_ of swords and bows and arrows and shit, and I don't mind them. Just don't know how to handle the gun thing
Eric, my view exactly on most things (except that it's a fucking GUN, man)...like the time D'Arcy found one of my bras on the floor in the room where Jay was sleeping...
D'Arcy "mummy, Look what I found! it was on the floor in Jay's room" (Jay was shitting himself not quite knowing what to do/say)
me "Oh, thanks, I was looking for that"
end of story.
So yeah...still dunno what to do...
Oh yeah, and he already has a cap gun or two..he wants it real (actually, he just wants it)
That kid is sharp - you're in for a lot of "fun"!
I remember shooting my dad's air rifle at tin cans in the garage when I was about 4 years old... and all these years later I still don't have my own air rifle :(
What about one of those guns that fires foam discs; they're well cool and more fun than deadly :)
Jay - hell yes, in fact I think we're already having it...
Lever- he had one of those, but he lost all the discs, and took the gun bit to his dad's house, so I haven't seen it since. Part of what happens is that when he goes to visit his dad's family his aunt lives on a farm and his uncle takes him out to shoot at coke bottles. However, they live a long way away, so it doesn't happen often enough for him to get it all out of his system...
Wow, you escaped easy outta that one. :D It coulda been WAY worse.
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