Kids're gullible and it's great being an uncle.
Dec 28, 2018 23:20:15 GMT -5
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Post by Psy on Dec 28, 2018 23:20:15 GMT -5
I've told my older niece (she's now 9) a lot of made-up things that she's believed, at least initially. These things have included:
1) I have a space ship in my room that goes to Mars and comes back every couple weeks.
2) Gorillas wander into my backyard and fall asleep on my deck. I then tape them up with "gorilla tape" (the brand) and mail them to the zoo.
3) There's a 5th monkey in the "see no evil/hear no evil/speak no evil/do no evil" set. It's "monkey no likee potatoes". This one got her in trouble at school, unfortunately.
My younger niece is 3, almost 4, and for some reason she's a bit harder to convince, but I've succeeded in a couple good ones.
1) When you wash your hands after touching dirty things the dirty water is tended to by dirty water fairies who sort the dirt so that it can be re-united with its friends & family. This was a necessary thing because she was scared she was separating bacterial families. The casual genocide of bacterial colonies was okay, but she felt bad that some bacterium was lonely.
2) Alexa, in the downstairs Echo Dot, is a princess trapped in that form until her true love rescues her with a kiss. Until then, she tries to be helpful. She spent the next two hours trying to get me to kiss the thing.
And just today when I got off work my sister was visiting with my niece, and I got to tell her that (when it was time for her to leave) she had to put her shoes & jacket on so that she could go to the grocery store with her mommy (which she HATES doing). When she got a little upset I told her that her mommy had to get the ceiling snake repellant from the store. Her eyes got wide (she loves reptiles, btw, and all of this was just to get her to get dressed & ready to go so my sister didn't have to raise her voice or anything) and I continued, "They're not really snakes, you know. They just call them that for some weird reason. They're actually alligators." "ALLIGATORS?!" "Yeah. They sneak up there to do chew gum because they're not allowed to in the swamp." "Whaaaat?" "Well, it's against the law. They're not supposed to chew gum in the swamp. So they sneak into people's houses and climb into their ceilings. You've heard the loud pops sometimes as you walk across the floor?" "Yes." "Alligators. Chewing. Bubblegum." "Whoa." She then borrowed my sister's phone when they stopped at the store to tell me that they didn't get any ceiling snake repellant, just a bag of marshmallows, and that I was just silly. I continued the hoax by informing her that alligators HATE marshmallows. "Have YOU ever seen an alligator eating s'mores?" But she got it by this point.
So... any creative stories you've told your kids, or your siblings' kids, in order to entertain them?
1) I have a space ship in my room that goes to Mars and comes back every couple weeks.
2) Gorillas wander into my backyard and fall asleep on my deck. I then tape them up with "gorilla tape" (the brand) and mail them to the zoo.
3) There's a 5th monkey in the "see no evil/hear no evil/speak no evil/do no evil" set. It's "monkey no likee potatoes". This one got her in trouble at school, unfortunately.
My younger niece is 3, almost 4, and for some reason she's a bit harder to convince, but I've succeeded in a couple good ones.
1) When you wash your hands after touching dirty things the dirty water is tended to by dirty water fairies who sort the dirt so that it can be re-united with its friends & family. This was a necessary thing because she was scared she was separating bacterial families. The casual genocide of bacterial colonies was okay, but she felt bad that some bacterium was lonely.
2) Alexa, in the downstairs Echo Dot, is a princess trapped in that form until her true love rescues her with a kiss. Until then, she tries to be helpful. She spent the next two hours trying to get me to kiss the thing.
And just today when I got off work my sister was visiting with my niece, and I got to tell her that (when it was time for her to leave) she had to put her shoes & jacket on so that she could go to the grocery store with her mommy (which she HATES doing). When she got a little upset I told her that her mommy had to get the ceiling snake repellant from the store. Her eyes got wide (she loves reptiles, btw, and all of this was just to get her to get dressed & ready to go so my sister didn't have to raise her voice or anything) and I continued, "They're not really snakes, you know. They just call them that for some weird reason. They're actually alligators." "ALLIGATORS?!" "Yeah. They sneak up there to do chew gum because they're not allowed to in the swamp." "Whaaaat?" "Well, it's against the law. They're not supposed to chew gum in the swamp. So they sneak into people's houses and climb into their ceilings. You've heard the loud pops sometimes as you walk across the floor?" "Yes." "Alligators. Chewing. Bubblegum." "Whoa." She then borrowed my sister's phone when they stopped at the store to tell me that they didn't get any ceiling snake repellant, just a bag of marshmallows, and that I was just silly. I continued the hoax by informing her that alligators HATE marshmallows. "Have YOU ever seen an alligator eating s'mores?" But she got it by this point.
So... any creative stories you've told your kids, or your siblings' kids, in order to entertain them?
