For Southern Boy's very first Christmas, way back in 2002, Santa brought him a Leap Frog Leapstart Learning Table. He loved it, played with the thing all the time,, but when he outgrew it we put it away in the garage to save for future use. Fast forward to, oh, around November. Southern Dad pulls the table out of storage, cleans 'er up, and plops it down for Southern Girl to play with. She LOVED it! She has played with it daily since her daddy gave it to her with no problems...it works just like the day we, er Santa bought it. That is until Monday night. Both kids were in bed, as were Southern Dad and I, when we hear a jazzy little "one two three four five six seven eight-nine-ten!" Southern Dad put the TV on mute, and once again: "one two three four five six seven eight-nine-ten!" I made him go check to see what was causing it, fully expecting him to say a little mousy visitor had decided the table would be great fun. While he was walking down the hallway I hear once again: "one two three four five six seven eight-nine-ten!" I hear Southern Dad click on the light and the sucker goes crazy "one two three four five six seven eight-nine-ten! one two three four five six seven eight-nine-ten! one two three four five six seven eight-nine-ten!" He picks it up and turns the switch off, which solves the problem for the night, and all was well. Maybe?
Yesterday morning I switched it back on for Southern Girl to play with while I was getting ready for school, and just left it on for the day. We get home (from her fabulous, napless, first day of daycare), and she goes straight for the table. After playing for a while, it's time for supper, so I snap her in her high chair and get her food ready. The table must have decided it was lonely, or maybe hungry, too, because it launched into a festive rendition of the ABC song. Not once, but THREE times!
Um...We have shut the thing off and put it up. I have no time for haunted play toys in my life. FREAKY.
Speaking of no time, I also do not have the time for the near 1200 spam comments I have recieved in the past week. Ohmygah, y'all! The spambots are KILLING ME! Does anyone know any plugins, maybe a captcha or something I can put in? I am drowning in SPAM!!! (maybe that gross mental image will make you feel sorry for me and give me some pointers, haha).

**updated: It's been 6 10 19+ hours since I posted this, and I have been spammed 60 89 206 times...drowning, I tell ya!