Yes. My family went out and ding dong ditched people last night after 8pm. Yes, that is probably a horrible example that will turn my children into the Prairie Lane Street Gang. So, I am probably going to hell. But, my wife had never been...what do you do.
Anyway, we got booed at about 6pm by someone in a blue minivan. Whoever this was. They ding dong ditched us like professionals. Well done blue minivan family. They rang the doorbell, jumped in their car and all we saw were the rear view lights pulling out of the driveway. In the door, they left a bag of treats and a note that said that we have 24 hours to boo two other families.
Like most families with small children, the kids were extremely excited to do something that appeared on the edge of sanity. It was cold, rainy, dark and late. So, what the heck. We bought candy - filled up four bags and loaded up the kids in the car for some late night mischief. We let each kid pick a friend's family and we went under the cover of darkness to their house. I will tell you that we were slow and clearly this was my family's first time because we were seen by everyone except one family. This family has really small children (3 children, 4 yrs old or younger) so my wife knocked very quietly so as not to wake the kids. They may not find out they've been booed for weeks. And frankly, that family will probably never guess who it was. [I'll just say that my son Denny really respects kids with lots of Star Wars toys.] It was a completely random booing which is frankly the best kind.
So, delinquents that we are. We got home about 9pm. Put our kids in bed. Watched a movie. Stayed up too late. And we are dragging today.
By the way, I agree with sheepskin because it is sort of Greek (diploma meaning "folded paper" in Greek) and old school. But, Wikipedia is surprisingly light on the topic of why sheepskin and not leather or some other type of animal skin. I am thinking about writing a completely bogus entry into Wikipedia and posting additional bogus information on the web as a reference for this - making the reason for sheepskin even more elusive and ridiculous...Does that make me a bad person? Or am I already a bad person due to my poor parenting skills?
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I saw an opportunity for you to really expand on the ding-dong ditching. I hope you don't care that I am spreading rumors about you.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I like the idea about making the skeepskin more elusive and ridiculous (Oh Professor Lupin, you get that boggart.)