Is there an emoticon for "WHAAA?!?!"
Any good Revolutionary or Anarchist out there knows that the easiest way to ruin a culture is to introduce counter-culture ideas into the minds of its children.
Kenner - the company that brought us Spirograph®, Easy-bake-oven® and all those cool Star Wars figurines - was clearly part of the Communist plot to destroy American social order in the 1960s.
As a red, white and blue-blooded American dad, I find "Daddy Saddle" to be horrifying! I work too dang hard to keep the little critters in control to let it all unravel in this gut-twist of authority.
Thing 1: Daddy! Let's play Horse!
Dad: Sure! It'll be fun!
(puts on Daddy Saddle)
Thing 1: Wee!
Dad: Ouch, ouch, uh-oh...
Thing 1: Faster!
Dad: Uh, time to put this away...
Thing 1: Awww...
(ten years later)
Thing 1: Dad, the meth party is at our house tonight. And I want the fridge full. Of steaks. And don't go cheap on the beer. And I expect you & mom will get a hotel room.
Dad: (to self) Woe! Woe! And it all started out with a round of 'Horsey!
(shudder). And I can hear just the sound of kneecaps being ground into crumbly pieces by the hard linoleum...
Thank goodness parents don't play with their kids anymore.
Whew.
