fun anyone?

when i was a kid, my siblings and i would fight over the toy in the cereal box. now, kids must draw straws to see who gets saddled with this bullshit.

i woke up this morning and opened up my new box of cereal. i hadn't looked on the box, so i had no idea what was going to be in there. i opened it up and sitting on top of the sealed cereal pouch was a step counter. oh, you read that right: a step counter.

two things i have to concede:

1: i'm 30 years old and therefore am no longer of the age where keys are entertaining. i haven't lost all of my girlish zeal and unbridled imagination, however toys...at this point...have to try a little harder to be fun to me.

2: the cereal was Frosted Shredded Wheat, so it could be argued that it's a relatively healthy cereal, so the toys inside should be health related. that's fair to a point, but complete bullshit. first of all, the toys in the boxes are not for the adults, they're for the kids. kids, generally, don't have much say in the cereal their parents buy, and if the parent has bought the kid shredded wheat you *know* they had no say. few children will choose shredded wheat over lucky charms. anyway, so if the kid has to eat this cereal, the least the company could do is put a decoder ring or something in there. they somehow managed to make a sucky breakfast even worse.

a step counter.

boooo.