Saturday 19 July 2014

The Adventures of Kevin the Nintendo Part II

You'll be delighted to hear that Kevin the Nintendo made it fine to DS Land to be repaired. We received a call saying that they'd received him ok and we dutifully told Bobby.

"What's the error?" he asked me one morning.
"We don't know yet. One of three things will happen. Either he will be cheap to fix. Or he'll be expensive to fix. Or he won't be fixable, but if we can't fix him Dad will save your games so that you won't lose them. So even if the worst comes to the worst, you won't lose your games."

"Ahhh, ok."

After the initial flash flood of emotion over his DS, Bobby has become surprisingly philosophical about it.

Then we manage to lose a game that he was playing on his 2DS. I search the entire house, looking under mattresses, behind furniture, down the back of sofas...I'm aware that his emotions are delicately balanced right now and he could do without another valuable loss. I can't find the damm thing. The following day I am rummaging round my handbag for my phone and the game appears. I have no idea how it got in there.

Nintendo phone to say that the fault is theirs and is fixable quite cheaply (yay!) and that their repairs come with a 12-month guarantee. They estimate 3-5 days on the repair job.

A few years ago, this would have meant a constant nag for precisely 3-5 days. But as Bobby has matured, he's started to find his own ways of coping with problems. Saturday morning sees him watching Nintendo 3DS adverts on You Tube, where they feature a metallic blue one exactly like his own. "Ah, this is bliss!" he says.

Watching his 3DS on an advert is just the same as looking at it. And if he's looking at it, it's still here.




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