Earbuds

I've been working from home for over a year now. There are 2 very important tools for working from home - my laptop and my earbuds. I have no-fluff, barebones earbuds, but I like them. I don't need to charge them. And they're a specific kind that fit my tiny ear, as very few do. 

But for all the utility they provide to me, and  for which i really like them; there's someone else who's had his eyes on my earbuds. Bobby. Grabby hands lunge and pull on the wire every chance they get. Every so often he comes over to my work from home desk, and if he can reach out, grabs and pulls on the earbuds wire. I reach to free the poor earbuds from clenched purposeful grippy fingers. As I rescue the earbuds, that doesn't leave Bobby boy too happy. Between happy baby and secure earbuds, I choose secure earbuds, of course!

But the other day, something bad happened. Bobby boy got hold of the earbuds wire, and this time in the usual push and pull between him and me to free my precious earbuds, he actually managed to yank the earbuds off from me. The little notch that controls the volume at the wire got yanked, and the earbuds were broken in two. Little copper wires came poking out. How could this even happen?! That grippy baby fist! And on top of all that, grippy baby was now crying too! Muma was not too happy at the earbuds demise. Turns out Bobby lost interest in it as soon as it got broken too. 'Typical boy!', as little miss Haana would say!