It’s all in the details
“When we were kids, my cousin carved an American flag and some other pictures into the siding of his house. My Aunt punished him, completely ignoring his protests that it was one of his brothers or sister or cousins who were in the yard on a regular basis. My mom asked my Aunt how she figured out which kid it was… turned out he’d carved his own name as part of his design. She wouldn’t tell him since it made it easier to catch him if he couldn’t figure out what gave him away.”
Blame Bill
“As a preschool teacher I like to just let the stories get crazier through suggestion.
“‘So it wasn’t you? Do you think it was Bill?’
“‘Yeah, it was him’
“‘Did you see Bill do it?’
“‘Yeah, it was today before you got here.’
“‘Bill isn’t here today, and not in this class.’
“‘…it wasn’t me though'”
A sticky situation
“My step-son is in that 13-year-old boy phase where he is both smelly and averse to showering. We are a family of pranksters. A few months ago my husband and I replaced his body wash with pancake syrup. He came home from basketball practice super sweaty… didn’t shower… went to bed… didn’t shower… 24 hours later (?!) we ask ‘did you shower?’… ‘Yep,’ he says. The sweet, smelly boy went another 1/2 day until he finally got to shampoo with pancake syrup.”
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