生活中总会遇到的7种讨厌的人

5. People that give our kids noise-making toys as a present
把制造噪音的玩具当礼物送给我们孩子的人

Last week I babysat my niece and I actually made this mistake. I bought her one of those fancy kids’ cellphones that makes sounds when you press the buttons and plays 3 different melodies. By the end of the 4th hour of her calling me and our “imaginary” friends I was actually contemplating ‘accidentally’ dropping and breaking the stupid thing.
上周，我临时照看我的侄女，我就真的犯了这个错误。我给她买了一个精致的儿童手机，一按键就会发出声音，播放3种不同的音乐。在结束了长达4个小时她对我以及“假想”朋友的呼叫之后，我真的在冥思苦想如何“不慎”摔坏这个讨厌的东西。

The solution to the problem was finally obtained – to wait for the right moment and then take the batteries out!
这一问题最终有了解决的方法——等待时机把电池拿出来！

What to do about it:
如何应对：

For starts, I would inform every friend and relative in your family that a drum set is off the limits. Second, I would declare that those who have the ‘genial’ idea of giving annoying noise-making toys to your children should be the ones babysitting your excited off-springs.
首先，我会通知每个亲友拒收架子鼓。其次，我会声明：那些想“友好地”送给孩子会发出恼人噪音的玩具的人，应该加入到临时保姆的行列，照看兴奋不已的孩子。

This technique definitely worked miracles for me.
这个方法显然为我创造了奇迹。