The Dancing Turkey
Happy Moment of the Day
Ahh, yes, I do love my Hubby.
(You may hear me say that a lot. It’s so true.)
Last week we were faced with a challenge: come up with two gifts for Hubby’s company Christmas party. The theme was — you guessed it — white elephant gifts. So we set out on a quest to track down two positively hilarious gifts. We were stuck with China Dollar Mart (more commonly known as Walmart) due to time constraints, but that didn’t stop us from coming across some great weird stuff.
One almost-winner: a neck massager shaped like a purple elephant. He was next to a foot massager shaped like two lime-green frogs, which was almost thrown into the cart too. But we found both of these crazy gifts (ah, yes, and a bath back scrubber shaped like a dragon, next to the kids’ bathtub crayon sets) in the seasonal aisle, and we figured that anything so prominent might already have been picked. And you don’t want two purple elephants in the same room. It would just be too weird.
We wandered out of Seasonal over into Toys. Little did we know, we were about to hit the jackpot. After quite an extensive search of every aisle, we found just what we were looking for on the top shelf of the back wall.
I am not making this up — they made a Mr. Potato Head that has a Spiderman costume, complete with webbing which can shoot out of any of his various orifices. Not only one, but two. Apparently in the third movie there is a Black Spidey along with the traditional Red Spidey — and this was a set of spuds.
I didn’t know how we could possibly top this gift, but meandering through the Christmas ornament aisles I spotted an entire aisle devoted to singing, dancing critters. (I say critters because they were not limited to humans or animals — there were reindeer, turkeys, Santas, elves, snowmen, Disney princesses, the works.) I almost thought the turkey was it, but somehow he just didn’t seem right.
Then I spotted him: The Hip-Hop Snowman.
Those of you familiar with Vanilla Ice will cringe as you read this. He was the most adorable little hip-hopster little chubby snowman you could ever imagine, and he had his own “Ice” necklace. To my absolute delight, as he sang part of “Ice, Ice, Baby,” the necklace started to glow from a blue LED cleverly hidden within. He bopped his head around like a little thug and even had a fake diamond ring. This was it.
Here is a conspicuously similar one. He doesn’t look quite as cool — he doesn’t have the necklace, or a leather jacket, or sunglasses, but the shape of him and the movements are just about the same. You’ll still get a kick out of him.
Back to the turkey: I just couldn’t walk away without looking at them one more time, and when I tried to put the chosen one back, Hubby insisted on getting him for me. He even has his own AA battery pack, so when the power dies, I can resurrect him. He sings “Deck the Halls,” and several times throughout the song he gobbles with a rather realistic turkey sound and shuffles his feet forward. He ends up walking a good 5 feet by the time the song is done.
Ahh, my little Christmas turkey. I needed something on my desk that was guaranteed to make me smile when the customers are mean to me.
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