Electric Dreams - Why We Never Have Enough Batteries

Not so long ago it was my little boy's birthday, and he got a fair mountain exciting looking toys. Everything seems to be interactive these days. When I was his age I was active, but it seems that today there is an expectation that they will play every bit as active as a child plays with it. His happy face as he looked eagerly in the spectrum of shiny plastic with flashing lights and happy faces, big bright buttons calling to be pressed, so they can jump into action and begin to perform certain feats to dazzle and amaze.
Not so long ago it was my little boy's birthday, and he got a fair mountain exciting looking toys. Everything seems to be interactive these days. When I was his age I was active, but it seems that today there is an expectation that they will play every bit as active as a child plays with it. His happy face as he looked eagerly in the spectrum of shiny plastic with flashing lights and happy faces, big bright buttons calling to be pressed, so they can jump into action and begin to perform certain feats to dazzle and amaze.
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But, for starters, we all just sat there looking at the boxes, because we knew one thing. They would all need batteries. Every year the same - we realized our mistake and I think that next year we will be in front of a toy manufacturer and a full set of batteries in each size and color, rechargeable and disposable, small, large, square and ready to inject life into inanely grinning, but stubbornly static creatures, frozen in mid-grin, growl, or thoughts. However, every year, at a time when we are ready to rip open the myriad of power, we realize that, again, we forgot to buy any. There might be one or two old batteries rolling around on the back of the kitchen drawer, although they will probably be different sizes, and one of them will not work.
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In the time we start raiding electrical appliances around the house that May to have the battery in. Our cannibalistic rampage through the house reveals how things have batteries. These small innocuous little cylinder forces seem to be everywhere. Remote control - all four of them have at least two each packed away in its small chambers, radio, alarm clock, egg timer -. so battery life, and so many different sizes
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It's always bigger toys that they are really huge battery life - the ones that look almost as big as a toilet roll inserts, and nothing in the house has one in them. I think my old radio used to, but these days everything else is slim down, and now the only thin left. Is it just me, or do other parents become so desperate that they start pushing a little battery in the back of toys that have large, silver foil cramming the space? Without success, toys and glares on me with his inane grin and shy eyes that seemed to be gloating at my ineptitude, his smile becomes a mock my failure to meet a simple duty of parents to always have a supply of suitable batteries for my child to fall foul of having to experience the patience . These toys are interactive for god's sake, how they should cope if they have no batteries in them? They might almost have to use your imagination for a while, and it will not be just awful?
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