TMP98: Spirograph

Welcome to my refreshed Monday Peeve! Unburden yourself of an annoyance and you’ll feel better afterward. Or not. Complain in my comments or crab in your own post. Doesn’t have to be on a Monday. You do you.

I had a toy as a child called a Spirograph (upgraded to Super Spirograph). It was a system of wheels and bars with notches and holes that you used to make awesome designs. The key was that you PINNED a piece to your paper, so it would stay still as you “geared” other wheels inside or outside of it with a colored pen inside a hole to make the patterns shown or create your own design. It was really the coolest thing, and my parents even had fun with it. Naturally, I bought one for my girls way back in the 1990s, but it sucked because the manufacturer took the pins away, replacing it with this stupid putty, and there was no way to make the starting piece remain stationary.

My granddaughter recently received the Spirograph kit and I figured that by now they would have either put the pins back or devised a better system so that you could keep the starting piece still. Nope. And it is so frustrating to try to make something when inevitably the initial piece wobbles and wrecks the entire pattern. I told my sweetie I’d help her, but the whole thing is impossible now. But hey everyone is safe from a pinprick.

Bah.

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