Baby on Bored
My best friend's baby has just started crawling. Very good news for me, as he is now double the fun, and we can build obstacle courses and get up to much more mischief. For them however, it's not quite such happy tidings. This baby is a magnet to danger, any uncovered power sockets, dangling cables, slammable doors he's pulled unstoppably toward them. It's uncanny, there could be any number of colourful bricks, musical rabbits and psychedelic alphabet books around him, he'll ignore them all and head straight for the kettle boiling. I don't think we should waste this talent. He could have a lucrative sideline as some sort of health and safety guru. We could send him into new buildings or damaged structures, and within five minutes he'd have found each major danger spot, located the weak beams, and be swinging from the exposed cabling by bedtime.

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