Saturday, July 14, 2007
Thriller!
I have just managed to scare the crap out of a friend's kid; not exactly my goal for today if you catch my drift.So, a friend came round to my old place, where my sister now happily resides. I've been using the joint to do a little work because my office is sadly empty during the weekends- bloody lazy these independent scholars if you ask me, taking the weekends off!
Anyway, I really wanted her to check out an interview with a prospective professor at a prospective US school.
So, I decided to play "nanny" for her 5 year old son, in order to give her peace to look at the Americans.
I found some old cars for the kid and even read a book with pics on the adventures of Benoit Brisefer (Steven Strong), the world's strongest kid, or at least Belgium's strongest kid.
OK, way off course- once again!
Eventually, we went outside to look for more toys and as we have collected a home-made hero dog, I see that my old neighbour is sitting on her balcony. This old bag has bothered me since I was a kid. She has been an evil troll since at least the early sixties and used to scream at us kids and would even smear the fence that separates our gardens with a nasty lubricating oil to prevent us from taking shortcuts through her garden. The mother unit used to sigh loudly while trying to remove the grease stains from the bums of our trousers and say things like: "How can anyone be this horrible?" Needless to say, the trouser budget in our household was a big part of my parents' paycheck.
As, I was thinking of things to entertain the kid with, my mind struck gold; I decided to tell him about the evil hag next door...
Bad, bad, bad idea! I scared the crap out of the kid and I doubt that his mum was thrilled with my narrative.
This is why childless people shouldn't babysit.
The times sure have changed since I was little- then every kid's idol was Michael Jackson, whereas today parents tell their kids: " If you don't behave you little...I will call MJ and invite him over!"
I can't believe I came up with using MJ as a tool of discipline in upbringing- this just goes to show that some people (reads:s me)should not procreate and if they for some unfortunate reason do beget children- it's best to ship the offspring off to the orphanage asap!
# posted by Björkin : 6:32 PM
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Wow, this reminded me of Canon de Segura again, where people constantly use ME for disciplining purposes, a la, 'If you don't stop crying, the gringa's gonna take you away to her country', as if that were such a punishment, honestly...
The best one I've heard so far was, 'If you don't behave, the gringa's gonna give you a vaccination', children famously being scared of needles.
Luckily, though, the kids don't normally believe it, as they found out pretty quickly what a good-natured fool I really am...
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The best one I've heard so far was, 'If you don't behave, the gringa's gonna give you a vaccination', children famously being scared of needles.
Luckily, though, the kids don't normally believe it, as they found out pretty quickly what a good-natured fool I really am...
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