Inspirational Stories
You have to be careful telling your kids funny stories from your life.
It just came up one night at dinner.
The time, back in college, when some friends and I stacked empty aluminum cans against some guy's dorm room door, completely filling the door frame from top to bottom.
I still remember the sound of a hundred cans clattering to the tile floor when he opened his door in the wee hours of the morning. Everybody in the building heard it.
It's a classic practical joke, and I told it in vivid detail to my kids. For a few minutes, they sat in awe of their daddy's comedy genius.
But, like I said, you have to be careful with these stories and what they might inspire.
Later that night, this is what I found in our hallway:
They grabbed stuff from every room in the house to build this. They included just about everything but the kitchen sink. Oh wait, that's in there too.
I didn't have the heart to tell them that the joke works best if your victim is on the other side of the door.
It just came up one night at dinner.
The time, back in college, when some friends and I stacked empty aluminum cans against some guy's dorm room door, completely filling the door frame from top to bottom.
I still remember the sound of a hundred cans clattering to the tile floor when he opened his door in the wee hours of the morning. Everybody in the building heard it.
It's a classic practical joke, and I told it in vivid detail to my kids. For a few minutes, they sat in awe of their daddy's comedy genius.
But, like I said, you have to be careful with these stories and what they might inspire.
Later that night, this is what I found in our hallway:
They grabbed stuff from every room in the house to build this. They included just about everything but the kitchen sink. Oh wait, that's in there too.
I didn't have the heart to tell them that the joke works best if your victim is on the other side of the door.
Permalink posted by Idaho Dad at 11:17 PM
7 Comments:
Thank goodness I have no college stories like that. But seriously, that's really, really funny.
Really funny. Your kids are ambitious to say the least.
I needed that! I'll think of this and laugh all weekend. Thanks.
What I love about things like this that kids do is that years from now your family will still be telling this story and laughing about it. Priceless!
Toothpaste on the underside of the door handle.
A classic, trust me.
cute!!
See, you have built a new memory for your kids based on your old memory - priceless
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