Can someone please tell me why I wasn't told to invest my entire pension in Duracell or Energizer stock??  When you think of it, is there any more of a sure thing that our dependence on AAA, AA, 9V and D?  Especially...yup you guessed it...once you have a baby!

I thought we were constantly in need of batteries before; smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors..and of course the remote - surely to god you don't expect me to get up? But once again, I think the "baby product" people got together with the "battery" people to screw over the general public.

EVERYTHING requires batteries...and none come with them of course...oh no...why would they get together and package them togetherfor our convenience...no no...only for the usage.

And when I say everything requires batteries, I mean EVERYTHING.  The playpen takes 4 AA?  Yup, so it can vibrate, glow in the dark and play creepy..oh sorry..I mean soothing and relaxing songs.

But that's all fine and good, I can even live with the little bouncy chair requiring a "D", cause the only reason that thing will go dead is because we are constantly leaving it on.  But who decided to make the power souce for a swing...which is a pretty large piece of  baby gear, which has to propel not only the seat but the weight of the baby back and forth over and over and over.....4 D batteries?  Why is it that the plug in model is the rarity AND mucho $$?  You'd think the power company, after learning how many hours a baby can potentially spend in one of these things would want in on this racket?

At this rate I wouldn't be at all surprised to open up a toy and read "Requires 17 D batteries...batteries not included"!