just to prove how strange i was (yes i know i am still) when i was a child, here is a little story from my childhood:
when i was in grade school, nintendo was really hitting hard, and everyone in my neighborhood had one but us...we did get one that next christmas, which got sold in a garage sale a couple of years ago against mine and my sister's will...anyway...one summer day i was really jonesing for some 'super mario brothers' but alas i had not a nintendo, so what do you think this 8 year old version of me did? i broke into my neighbor's house and played nintendo...how? you might ask. well this is how.
first thing was first, i poked a hole through the screen door in the back and lifted the lock on the screen door, but the handle on the main door had been locked, so then i checked the windows to the basement to see if any of them were unlocked. and yes there was one unlocked...i took the screen off the window, you know one of those horizontal narrow basement windows, and pulled the window open, because these windows opened out. i started to climb through the window when i slipped and sat on the window and cracked the pane...but i couldn't stop now. So they would know something happened to their window, but they wouldn't be able to trace it back to me...of course now we have csi and i totally would have been in juvie.
once in the basement i walked up the basement stairs and went to open the door to my prize and found the door would only open three inches. the door was hitting the handle on the back door and wouldn't open the rest of the way. some would have given up at this juncture, but i knew that if i were to save the princess i would have to find a way around this particular barricade.
i realized i could reach through and unlock the back door...so i did...i went back down the stairs, up and out the window, back to the back porch, i opened the screen door i had already jimmied, and entered the den of super mario.
i know it was wrong... it was sooooo wrong... but on the bright side, i saved the princess.
OK YOUNG MAN YOU'RE GROUNDED !!! Even tho' this is a little late, I'll figure out a punishment for you, you wait......heeheehee ! Mom
Posted by: Kay Hampton | October 31, 2005 at 05:12 PM