in regards to dr feel bear (or dfb)

*a monster truck from mater's tall tales, real name : dr feel bad. we thought finn was meaning to say dr feel BETTER. he was not. he was meaning exactly what he was saying. even though both are wrong, and the truck's name is dr feel BAD, not BEAR or BETTER. also, finn calls the show mater's long tales. i'm beyond the point of trying to correct him on it. anyway...

finn saw that mattel (i think it's mattel?) is making the monster trucks from mater's tall tales. and he was esp excited about dr feel bad, the one i couldn't find in any walmart in the whole county. (okay, well maybe i only looked at 2 of the 6-8walmarts in the county, but i called a couple of the other ones without luck.) i struck gold at the walmart about 20min south of us; they had only one dfb left. the catch : they will only hold something for you for 1hr before reshelving it, and i was at home with no car while mor was in slc for work. i called in a favor from our dearest george, who was more than happy to go grab it for me. i didn't tell finners because i was planning on throwing the good dr into his easter basket. so, (to drag out this story even more) george and the kids dropped it off thursday night, and i hid it in our closet.
fast forward to friday morning...
finn was still talking about how much he wanted dfb. we were down close to the magical walmart anyway, so we told finners if he was good we could pop in and check it out. "i'm good," he said. "we have to get down there before some other kid buys it." okay, okay. and this is where reading all that above is worth it. finn started saying how if he saw the other kid with dfb, he was going to fight the kid in the aisles of walmart and take the monster truck from him. then, he started enlisting me and mor to help. i would block the aisle so the kid couldn't get away and mor would be finn's tag team partner to fight the kid. (seriously, folks. i couldn't make up this stuff.) obviously there was no dfb at walmart, much to finn's dismay. we went by costco next, and, as mor was taking finn to potty, finn expounded on his plan to find dfb and "the other kid." he would get online and look up the other kid, find where he lives, have mor drive to his house and fight him for dfb. all while wearing "criminal masks, criminal shirts, criminal pants and criminal shoes." i almost wet my pants, i was laughing so hard. finn continued to talk about dfb all day and night.
fast forward to this morning...
finn woke up still plotting his attack on "the other kid." we'd let it run its course (and provide us with some good laughs), so mor suggested one of us put dr feel bad on the porch and tell finn that the other kid got scared when he heard finn was looking for him and he dropped off dfb and ran away. i took the first chance i got; when i took penny to potty, i told finn that she had found something in our yard and gave him dfb. he was beyond excited and has been playing with dfb all day.
the things you do for your kids, man.
(thanks again, george!)