HRH: Jade and Sean got to stay up to see the ball drop.
Manic Mommy: Really? Do you know what that is? I can show it to you on the computer when we get home.
Home and settled, MM clicks over to YouTube searching "Ball Drop, Times Sq, New Year's Eve". Voila!
MM: Hey guys! Come watch the ball drop!
(watching Dick Clark, Ryan Seacrest, et al., hugging)HRH: So? When does it drop?!
Gremlin: What does it break?!
MM: It doesn't really "drop," it just sort of slides down a pole and lights up.
Gremlin: It doesn't drop on anything?
MM: Um, no. That's just one of the ways we celebrate the new year here in America. You see, we --
Boys depart kitchen, eyes rolling.
Better luck next year, guys.
12 comments:
A truly dropping ball would be a little more exciting. Even better would be if was made of super-ball stuff and bounced around Times Square.
LOL - now that would be a sight! I'm sure there are a few souls in Times Square that could use a good smack on the head.
Poor little dudes. I can see their frowns from here.
A ball drop designed by your boys would be much more likely to make me want to stay up until midnight.
Sounds about right. It is pretty boring to just watch.
I like their version much better!
Let's do it that way next year!
(but only if we make sure the ball knocks out a few of Seacrest's overly-whitened teeth)
And to think they thought they missed something.
That's kind of how I feel about the whole thing too, but I play along.
I've always found that New Year moment rather anticlimactic. And this year my husband and I were watching TV when I noticed that it was 12:02. I figure I didn't miss anything.
Such a let down ;-) They'll probably recover from the disappointment. I gave up on the ball long ago. Definitely anti climatic.
Bossy misses 2009 already.
That's the same reaction Pal had when we took him to Plymoth Rock - "It's just a rock???"
They are truly boys, aren't they?!
I agree. DULL. Maybe it was more exciting when it was originally made, and people didn't see things like "moving lights" all the time?
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