The One With the Barbie Car vs the Barbie Shower

Question: Was there a toy or thing you always wanted as a child, during the holidays or on your birthday, but never received?

Answer: Yes. A life sized Barbie car.

I have an older, and much cooler, cousin who had a Jeep when we were kids and I remember riding that thing around his back yard all the time. That Jeep made me want my own to ride around my yard, except a Jeep would not suffice. I wanted a life sized Barbie car. Birthdays came and went, Christmases came and went, regular days came and went and I never had a Barbie car to ride around in.

I did, however, get a shower for my Barbie dolls. This shower spewed real water from a shower head and filled the tub with water and bubbles. One day, after being sassy to my mother, that Barbie shower was taken from me and set on top of the refrigerator. It was promised that I could have the shower back after some period of time, but I wanted nothing to do with that agreement. To take matters and punishment into my own hands I refused to ever accept it back, even when it was relinquished back into my possession. I never played with that shower again, although I do still own it.

Lesson learned: thankful to have had anything Barbie at all?

Look how happy I was when I got it...