I’m the worst mother ever! Right now, as I am sitting here writing this, my 10 year old son is playing Fable II. This is worse than the time I let the baby play with my parents’ DVD collection, worse than the time I absent-mindedly sang Britney Spears’ ‘If U Seek Amy’ in front of my 9 year old daughter because this was all my idea. I asked him if he wanted to play it and I feel terrible about the whole thing. He’s not helping out slavers, he’s not killing children, he’s not even kicking chickens. He’s doing something even more morally questionable. He’s earning me gold.
But wait! Before you judge me, let me explain! See, I needed a new outfit, and a shiny new sword and this bird I unintentionally chatted up wanted me to get her an engagement ring! All these things cost money of course so I got myself a job at the local blacksmith’s. I have no problem with doing an honest bit of work and I was happily button bashing away until my tired, hungry younglings demanded my attention, and they can’t be ignored. You can’t pause kids or mute them, and you really can’t let them fend for themselves cause they’d just end up eating a jar of Nutella for dinner and staying up til midnight watching Spongebob and bouncing on the settee.
So let’s see… in the half an hour it’s taken my boy to earn me 8,000 odd gold or whatever, I’ve chucked dinner in the oven, bathed and put the baby to bed and even had time to sit down and write this blog. You gotta admit, that’s a pretty sweet deal. I know I’m a bad person, I do, but y’know it could be worse… I mean… it’s not like he’s earning me gamerscore!
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