It's the rules

Stellai’s blog July 2020: 

           Click on the image above for full size and the gallery

It’s the rules

So, I have been away for almost a year. And now you are all gonna pretend that you have totally forgotten about me, right? Bunch of cold-blooded liars you are !!

Wanna know why I disappeared, what I have been doing and why I am back?

Well, the answer to the first question is: You don’t wanna know.

To the second it is: You don’t need to know.

And to the third it is: You’re gonna find out soon enough.

Anymore questions?...

...Hmm?

Thought so!

Ok, tell me this,...

When was the last time you actually did see a silicone doll representing her country as a sportswoman at the Olympics?....

When was the last time you actually did see a giant size hard skin mannequin doll walking the catwalk in a fashion show?....

When was the last time you actually did see a chess match between the embee Kasparov and the awesome chess playing Barbie doll named Ken4.886.723?....

….Well?

Sure you know where this is going, as the answers to these questions - and to endless more of these-  are the all the same. The answer is: Never!

Not really startling, right?

The startling starts with the question that comes next. It’s with the ‘why-‘, or in this case the ‘why-not’ question.

To this question there are a number of possible answers, but after my crossfire of counter arguments only one will keep standing its ground. It is the harsh, undemocratic, unreasonable and most dishonest one of them all:…

….It's the rules!

But the fascinating thing about rules is that they do not write themselves. In the perfect scenario it is a bunch of regulations thought of and wholeheartedly agreed to by every doll that at some or several points in her, his, or its life, will need to be guided by these regulations. Traffic lights are the perfect example. They regulate our behaviour on crossroads and keep us from damaging one another. This of course with the exception of hedgehog dolls, that ignore traffic lights and seem to prefer to see themselves crushed and smeared like peanut butter over the asphalt.  

 If you think that it seems a bit odd to choose to have yourself flattened and squeezed on the road  like mashed potatoes, then I totally agree with you. So, as investigating reporter I thought it to be a good idea to have a little chat with one of the hedgehog dolls that frequently visit our backyard.

Hedgehog dolls are very noisy when moving around, so to locate one was easy. Chatting however was not so easy.

But I would not have become a star reporter if I was not able to get at least something out of my interviewee, though I instantly admit that I have done better. But hey, when your interviewee first wants to take a bite out of your leg and then when you kick her off, she rolls up to a spiky ball, and the next thing you get is just mumbling curses,  then what can you do?!

Anyway, this is what I still managed to get out of her:

Hedgehog dolls live by just one rule, which is: roll up and protect yourself with your spines whenever you think you are in danger. It is a rule they’ve had for millennia and it has proven itself to be sufficient and quite effective. And because the average hedgehog is not too smart and damn quirky, the new rule of following the traffic light instructions is widely ignored by them.

Serves them right, I hear you think. But does it really?  Not too long ago I noticed a meat based toddler doll near crossroads. As we all know, this toddler doll model is notorious for its quirkiness and, like the hedgehoggies, they are all far from smart….

Anyway,  completely ignoring the red traffic light this toddler started to toddle towards the center of the crossroads  to have himself smeared.  but whereas other dolls only make ‘iiieuww’ noises to a hedgehog doll when doing so, total panic broke loose amongst the giant size dolls that had noticed the toddler doll. Completely ignoring the traffic light that was now green for cars, they ran towards the toddler, waving their arms, completely messing up the punctual regularity of the traffic lights, screwing the rules, causing a huge traffic jam….

Fascinating, isn’t it?! So much fuss for a toddler doll from which there are literally millions and millions.

Apparently we live by the rules, but not really, sometimes we bend them. And other times, just out of nowhere, we feel an irresistible urge pop up to break, crush and crumble them.

And so you can see us in here the photos,…. giving it our best shot, to play this great, but ill-conceived game called ‘Petanque’  neatly by the rules, until….. Well, let's put it this way,  Koen's interference was just in time.

Stellai

P.S.

Very much looking forward to see the first silicone sportswoman in the next Olympics. I can understand that the games as such have rules you try to stick to, but to have rules that exclude other types of dolls from participation, sorry, but that is just discrimination.  These rules need bending!  

P.P.S.

If you have missed my previous blog: “Maiden of the Night – The Interview" from October 2019…. Yeah, that is almost a year ago, no need to rub it in. In fact it is all the more reason to click this link.