The Monkey Backpack's Many Uses

So we have this handy monkey backpack that's supposed to prevent our kids from wandering away and getting lost in public places like the State Fair or the zoo. As it turns out, we've never used it successfully in any of those places, and as a result, we have lost Joey on numerous occasions.  But would we say the monkey backpack is useless?  No way!  Joey uses it all the time for a plethora of interesting tasks.  In fact its tail is currently tied up to a hard, jingly baby ball that Joey swings around as a "dangerous machine."  (The monkey backpack, in this condition, is way up high on a tall shelf to prevent injury...)  My favorite task, though, was when Joey recently tied the tail around a scrubber brush in an attempt to be an automatic deck scrubber (which we desperately need).  Too bad it didn't work as smoothly as he hoped...

It fell off during the swinging action. (Too bad!!!)