I'm gonna get you sucka!

Well, I am back. I have been a little busy this past week. I have a new gig as you may know. I work for the local Juvenile Court. It is pretty cool actually. I am not going to go into details, because quite frankly I don't want to. I have been training for four weeks today. I used to work at a place where it was only physical about 98% of the time. Only the occasional mental work. I have been on information overload for the past 28 days, and it is beginning to show. I came home today and immediately laid down to take a nap. It was only about 20 minutes, but as I am a semi-professional power napper that was all I needed. I woke up to the sweet sounds of my daughter telling me that dinner was ready. I didn't think you could cram 8 hours of sleep into 20 minutes, but I did this afternoon!

I had a good weekend. Friday night my daughter stayed with a friend from school and they went rolling. Now this will be the first time I will give any information as to where I live: Rolling is a term used in the South for going to someone's house in the middle of the night and throwing toilet paper into their trees or bushes. Also you can put it all over someone's car if they don't have trees. Well, she was so excited about doing this to someone else that when she had a friend over on Saturday night she begged the wife and me to take her somewhere to go rolling. We went to her Grandmother's house and rolled her car.

Now let me give you a little disclaimer: When I was in high school I did my fair share of rolling. Most of the time we would do a little toilet paper and let it go, but not all the time..... There were times where we would go to the drug store and buy maxi pads and peel the paper off of the back and stick them to the windshield. We would also buy oreo type cookies and pull the cookie apart and stick them to the windows, windshield, and headlights. We would at times too drive around in the fall and pick up bags and bags of raked leaves and take them to a person's house and dump them on the lawn. Really kind of funny when you think about it. One single tree in the middle of the yard about two inches in diameter, and there was about a foot of leaves all over the yard!

There was one time we bought about four boxes of dried milk and poured it on someone's yard hoping the dew would give it just enough moisture to become liquid and then the sun would cook it and make it stink. That one didn't work because it rained all night.

I knew some friends who would boil about two dozen eggs and then go to someone's house that they didn't like and pretend like they were just sitting in the yard talking. They would take a little garden trowel and bury the eggs all over the yard. About a month later the whole place would reek of sulfur! I never did that one, but it sure sounds like a way to get even with someone.

All in all it is pretty fun going out and pulling pranks on people. You have to know though that someday someone will get you. I haven't been the victim of any retaliation, but it will happen. I have to think that the daughter's grandmother will try to get us back, I just hope I will be awake when it happens. Nothing like hearing beforehand that someone is trying to pull a prank on you and you and your Dad sit on the roof in the shadows with the water hose to let them have it when they come into your yard. Look out! I know all the tricks.