I was in the market for another power wheels battery operated riding toy for my triplets since they have one Power Wheels Jeep already and they constantly fight over who is going to drive. This is one of the nightmares of triplets, you have to have three of everything. Oh sure I know parents out there who will say, "Oh what a great sharing opportunity for them to learn". To them I say, OK - sure get a life! You haven't had to listen to my kid's whine for hours on end until its their turn. I will leave the sharing lessons to their preschool teacher...
Thus starts another obsession in my crazy OCD personality.
Day 1. I start doing a little power wheels Googling and run across a website called http://www.modifiedpowerwheels.com/ (MPW). Well this website is filled with many other OCD dad's like myself. It is amazing some of the modifications people do to these things. Check out this one: http://modifiedpowerwheels.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10820
Day 2. I have found and purchased from craigslist.com a Little Tykes Hummer and PW Barbie VW Beetle. Both of which are not running and I don't realize this until I get them home. Which is probably the direct result of my OCD since I am a bit compulsive and don't know what to look for when buying these things used.
Day 3. I have traded the 2 newly acquired riding toys to a guy on the MPW website for 2 battery operated PW quads. Which if I might add was kinda what I was looking for in the first place. Since this will get my kids familiar with riding ATV's, which I'm hoping to get when the triplets get older . Also the quads run so that's better than the 2 prior riding toys. However it did cost me a little to get 2 running units.
Day 4. After obsessive reading I'm a minor expert on the in's and out's of MPW and ready to start tearing out the rear end gear box of one of the quads, upgrade it and then put 18 volt batteries in for extra horse power (if there is such a thing as HP on a PW).
Day 5. I think I might have my wife convinced to trade our first PW jeep (the catalyst of all this madness) for a third PW quad since now the three fight over riding the two quads and no one wants to touch the jeep anymore. I'm not any better off than before this all started.
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