Tricks

It runs in the family. Playing tricks on other people. I remember old family stories about tricks played. Some a bit mean, some funny. My grandparents on boths sides of my family had porch swings. Good memories come with those old porch swings. Sadly, I don't have a place to hang mine anymore so it is out in the "South Forty" hanging in a tree that no one swings in anymore. The porch swing story: My dad took an old telephone generator? (hope that is what it is called. It was what was used to crank the phone to ring up the operator) and connected it to the metel chains that the porch swing was hanging from the porch roof with. When my my uncle (his brother) sat down in the swing and put his hands on the chains, my dad cranked up the telephone generator thus sending an electrical shock raging through Uncle Lloyd that caused him to lift him and the two who were sharing the swing high up into the air.

Another trick: On April 1st, my grand dad situated himself, standing in the corn crib where he fed his cows, put a rope around his neck and simply waited until grandma came to find him, of course playing out the look of being hanged until dead, tongue hanging out, head canted sideways. That was a mean one. Meaner than the telephone trick.

These stories lead up to the picture below. My BB's youngest daughter, who lives and works in San Francisco, put tape on the bottom of a co-workers mouse to his computer and sat by enjoying his trying to get the mouse to work, tapping it, wiggling it, all the things you do to make it work. HE GOT EVEN! The next day she came to work and found her cubical FOILED! As you can see, her whole cube is covered with foil. I believe the only thing that was not covered with foil was the screen to her computer and Amanda herself.

Amanda: I didn't have anything else to share so you are the blog for today.