SirThumper
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- Sep 9, 2000
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Here's the scoop, I have 3 sons, A son of my own (Mickey 11) and two step sons (Justin 12), (Jordan 10).
It all starts last friday after Mick arrives for the weekend. Of course all the kids in the neighborhood are at the house and Mick ask if the boys can sleep on the trampoline. I say ok fine, since this is the last weekend before school. Well then can half the neighborhood stay over too? I say ok but only after lining them up and letting them know that if I hear one peep out of the back yard then everyone was going home and they were coming in, (it was late). Ok fine. Fine then.
Here's where it gets kind of fishy. :think:
So Tuesday eve. after work I see Jordan sneeking something into his room under his shirt. I yell, "hold it" and go to investigate. Under his shirt is the first aide kit, and I ask him why he needs it. He tells me that Justin had sprained his ankle, I tell him to put it back cause there is nothing in the first aide kit that will help a sprained ankle. Five minutes later Justin comes strolling out of his room with socks on with no limp. I reply with "I thought your ankle was hurt?", he says "it's ok now".
It's now Thursday which happens to be my wife's day off. After work I get cleaned up and go bowling (flame me if you want to, it just happens to be one of many things I am into) When I get home and 10:00pm I think it is strange that my wife's Explorer is gone. I ask Jordan where Justin and Mom are and he tells me that they are at the hospital. WHAT! what happened, I couldn't get much out of him other than Justin had burned his leg Saturday morning.
At this point I knew there was some form of cover-up going on so I waited for the wife to get home.
Turns out :| :| While all the boys were out sleeping on the trampoline Friday night, they got cold, ( it's getting in the low 40's at night) well someone got the bright idea to get in the sandbox (which is under half of my two story backyard workshop) He says they did it to get warm, and only burned small pieces of wood and grass. (no,not that grass, although that might explain the stupidity of all this). Early Saturday morning they woke up freezing and decided another fire was in order, so Justin goes and gets the lawnmower gas and starts some more weeds on fire. He is sitting indian-style and starts to light the fire between his legs and spills gas on his inside leg just above the ankle. Instead of throwing sand on it emmediately, he jumps up and hops around for a second or two and then throws sand on it. Five days go by before me or his Mom find out and now it is infected. The only way she found out is that he was jumping the fence and smacked it on the top of the fence on the way over and could not get it to stop bleeding.
Dr. says it is second degree burns that could turn into 3rd degree before it is all over. They did a whirlpool treatment on it and gave him a tetnis? shot. He has to go back in the morning for more treatment.
Dang kids! The stuff they try to get away with. I think Justin has pretty much learned his lesson, I've been in his shoes, only I shot an arrow through my hand with my dads bow while he wasn't home :eek: . I do not know what to do with the other two for going along with it.
And people wonder why I lost my hair so fast, between the kids and the wife...sheesh.
The good news is that I am going down to put some cash on my new YZ450F tomorrow. Yeah Baby Grrrrr.
It all starts last friday after Mick arrives for the weekend. Of course all the kids in the neighborhood are at the house and Mick ask if the boys can sleep on the trampoline. I say ok fine, since this is the last weekend before school. Well then can half the neighborhood stay over too? I say ok but only after lining them up and letting them know that if I hear one peep out of the back yard then everyone was going home and they were coming in, (it was late). Ok fine. Fine then.
Here's where it gets kind of fishy. :think:
So Tuesday eve. after work I see Jordan sneeking something into his room under his shirt. I yell, "hold it" and go to investigate. Under his shirt is the first aide kit, and I ask him why he needs it. He tells me that Justin had sprained his ankle, I tell him to put it back cause there is nothing in the first aide kit that will help a sprained ankle. Five minutes later Justin comes strolling out of his room with socks on with no limp. I reply with "I thought your ankle was hurt?", he says "it's ok now".
It's now Thursday which happens to be my wife's day off. After work I get cleaned up and go bowling (flame me if you want to, it just happens to be one of many things I am into) When I get home and 10:00pm I think it is strange that my wife's Explorer is gone. I ask Jordan where Justin and Mom are and he tells me that they are at the hospital. WHAT! what happened, I couldn't get much out of him other than Justin had burned his leg Saturday morning.
At this point I knew there was some form of cover-up going on so I waited for the wife to get home.
Turns out :| :| While all the boys were out sleeping on the trampoline Friday night, they got cold, ( it's getting in the low 40's at night) well someone got the bright idea to get in the sandbox (which is under half of my two story backyard workshop) He says they did it to get warm, and only burned small pieces of wood and grass. (no,not that grass, although that might explain the stupidity of all this). Early Saturday morning they woke up freezing and decided another fire was in order, so Justin goes and gets the lawnmower gas and starts some more weeds on fire. He is sitting indian-style and starts to light the fire between his legs and spills gas on his inside leg just above the ankle. Instead of throwing sand on it emmediately, he jumps up and hops around for a second or two and then throws sand on it. Five days go by before me or his Mom find out and now it is infected. The only way she found out is that he was jumping the fence and smacked it on the top of the fence on the way over and could not get it to stop bleeding.
Dr. says it is second degree burns that could turn into 3rd degree before it is all over. They did a whirlpool treatment on it and gave him a tetnis? shot. He has to go back in the morning for more treatment.
Dang kids! The stuff they try to get away with. I think Justin has pretty much learned his lesson, I've been in his shoes, only I shot an arrow through my hand with my dads bow while he wasn't home :eek: . I do not know what to do with the other two for going along with it.
And people wonder why I lost my hair so fast, between the kids and the wife...sheesh.
The good news is that I am going down to put some cash on my new YZ450F tomorrow. Yeah Baby Grrrrr.
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