Power Hungry

During our weekend at the dunes, one of our fellow campers who shall remain nameless because I do not have very kind words toward him at the moment, encouraged Chloe to take his son's quad out for a test drive:

What may have seemed like a nice gesture turned the rest of the weekend into a disaster.  Because when Chloe eventually had to hop back on her own quad, she quickly declared that her bike had suddenly become totally inadequate for her needs--a difference she would have been completely oblivious to if a certain somebody hadn't loaned her their kid's quad in the first place.

From that moment on, when she would ride her own quad, she would suddenly stop and do these strange vexing postures to publicly demonstrate her frustration with the thing's inability to keep up with her growing skills.

I think If it were possible to do yoga on a quad, I could actually name her poses...

This one I'd call the "downward facing sob":

and this one the "Seated Sky Sulk":

Now the only conversation our 10-year old daughter wanted to talk about on our trip back home was the subject of getting a new quad so she can do "more hill climbing".  Apparently she's forgotten she just recently moved up from a 60cc to her red 80cc.  Now she's fixated on making the leap to a 250 four-stroke.

What happened to the days when all Chloe really cared about was was having a "pretty" motocross outfit with a matching pink helmet? Those demands were cheaper to satisfy.

And, as for our "friend" who so generously shared his stuff with my daughter...he will  be spitefully cut out of our group photo and won't be invited back until he can learn NOT to share his toys with my kids anymore.

Check out the size difference:  The kid in the very front of this next picture--he's on the bike she wants...Chloe's on her quad right after him.  Click on the picture and check out the size differences...of both the size of the two kids and the size of their quads.  Hmmmm.  Can you guess which one may not belong with the other?

...but there's not much you can do to change the mind of a very focused girl who's gotten a little power hungry.