No big deal. Take them out of the girlfriend's vibrator.

This is bad with the thing I have for lightsabers. Now I always have tons of batteries on hand...

If it needed batteries I usually ended up running down to 7-11 on Christmas when I was a kid. I keep a stockpile of every size of battery. I hope I can use them before they expire.

Nothing like have the toy of the year and finding out it needs batteries that you do not have. Great way to start a christmas morning.

When my mom bought toys for her nieces and nephews for Christmas, she ALWAYS MADE SURE to look on the box to see how many batteries the toys took (and what kind...i.e. double As, triple As, etc.).

so far we have not forgotten to buy batteries for those kind of gifts, and always make sure we include the first batch of batteries for someone else. I remember one year between our two kids when they were younger we must have bought about 5 or 6 toys that required batteries. Of course each one needed at least four batteries apiece. We just about gagged when we realized how much we were stuck spending on batteries. So I guess the guffaw was not forgetting to get batteries, but being dumb enough to buy too many toys that required them.