Something happened two nights ago that got me thinking. See this Hawkman figure here:
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It's from the Superman/Batman: Public Enemies line. It looks pretty solid and sturdy doesn't it? Well it is, until you get up to the wings on his helmet.
The other night my wife was playing with one of our cats and in doing so caused the cat to bump the display unit that Hawkman is perched atop pretty hard making it fall and breaking the little wings into several small pieces.
It took about 45 minutes of searching for said pieces and having me glower at ther the whole time for her to finally accept responsibility for what happened and apologise, which is something she usually has a hard time doing.
I'm fairly confident that with judicious use of super glue I can repair it. You see, this is not the first time he has been broken thusly.
A while back some friends of ours were over with their young daughter, she was 2 or 3 at the time I think, and as she was coming down the stairs, which is where the display stand is next to, she accidentally bumped it and Hawkman broke.
Of course I don't blame the little girl, or anybody really, it was an accident. But I thought it would have been nice if they had at least apologised for it. They knew it had broken, and though I kept my dis-pleasure in check, I'm sure that they could tell that I wasn't happy about it. But they just carried on as if nothing happened, even laughed about it a little.
It just makde me think that maybe the fact that it was a "toy" made them care less about it. I'm pretty sure if it had been a piece of my wife's china it would have been a different story. There would have been profuse apologies and likely attempts at recompense.
But considering that it is a part of the huge display in my little man cave; that should have indicated some level of importance to it.
I didn't want them to pay for it, or attempt to repair it, but a simple
"Oh shit! Sorry!" would have been nice.
Anyone else ever have something like this happen?