About

It all started as a game. I'd do a funny voice with Dino to make him giggle and eventually Dino became a full fledged part of the family. They talk, play, and joke together. Whenever I'm about to leave for work my son will run up with Dino in hand to have me do one last thing for them both before I go. Often poor Dino is the butt of some prank my son has cooked up and since Dino is a toy (and toys don't cuss) his favored epithet when things go awry is "Noodles".

Fast forward a bit and my wife and son were away for a two week visit with her mother. Now I have always talked to myself so it probably isn't much of a surprise that I eventually started talking to Dino as well (who of course answered). When my family finally came home, I had been doing this back and forth with Dino so much that I kind of forgot to stop. My wife was understandably weirded out, but instead of throwing me in the looney bin she just laughed and commented that if the end of the world ever happened I'd likely wander the Wasteland with this toy Dimetrodon, the two of us chatting away.

They think you're just a toy Dino.

"Ah, Noodles!"