Judge John Hodgman on Making Children Save Up for Lego Hogwarts

[conuly]

Dana writes: Our kids really wanted the big Lego Hogwarts set. So my husband and I bought it, planning to stash it away until they saved enough money to pay for it. It’s four months later, and they haven’t saved any money. But now we’re sheltering in place. I suggested that Lego Hogwarts could be deployed in case of emergency boredom. His response? “They’d better start saving money.”

First of all, I hope you are all safe and healthy. Even your husband. I also hope by now your husband has agreed, either by reason of decency or claustrophobia, to let the Lego bricks fly. It is very difficult right now for anyone to make money, never mind children who are forced to earn their toys. Kindness, patience and productive distraction are as vital right now as paid sick leave, stimulus checks and rent forgiveness. I use my executive powers to vote for an immediate Lego bailout.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/magazine/judge-john-hodgman-on-making-children-save-up-for-lego-hogwarts.html

Comments

[oursin]

The only problem is how hard it would be to dispose of a body in the present circumstances...

(I was thinking only last night that surely these times are the set-up for a plethora of new allotrope of the 'country-house cut off from the rest of civilisation'/delimited group of suspects type of murder mysteries.)