Day 21: Uh Oh

In which I try to give away a matchbox car carrying case and am thwarted by the 4 year old.

Ok, so there's this toy truck that doubles as a carrier for Matchbox cars and we've been stumbling over it for months, touching it only to move it the heck out of the way. It has been months since Jack played with it, so I earmark it for expropriation to an acquaintance with a little boy close to Jack's age; to forestall any drama when they come over to get it, I put it away in a Trader Joe's bag in the front closet. No problem, he doesn't even notice it's gone. Then we go to the demolition derby and Jack comes home all amped to play demolition derby with his Matchbox cars and then all of a sudden this truck is crucial for carrying away the "wrecked" demolition cars like we saw at the derby and he's tearing apart his room looking for it, nearly in tears, and so I get it back out and give it to him. I have to think of a way to back out of giving it to the person i promised it to. The thing is, I have no idea how long the demolition derby craze will last; could be days, could be much longer, so am I backing out or are we merely postponing?

UPDATE: Found a different Matchbox car carrier, that we ALSO haven't used in a long time, but that is not crucial to our never ending demolition derby re-enactments. The recipient cheerfully accepted the switch and equally cheerfully declined to otherwise participate in Impedimenta.