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Dad plays best prank ever on teenage son - Parenting on Shine (http://www.shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/dad-plays-best-prank-ever-on-teenage-son-2493685#photoViewer=1 - broken link)
Haha, that's hilarious! They must have a great relationship.
My dad has little games with my sister and me. My sister slowly and carefully unwraps presents so that the paper doesn't tear, and our dad started teasing her about it years ago. He started wrapping one of her Christmas gifts with extra tape in an attempt to make her tear the paper, but she patiently picked at it and the paper remained intact. It escalated over the years, and our engineer dad (who has knowledge and access to all kinds of industrial adhesives) has gotten more elaborate with wrapping the package. He's wrapped the entire package in packing tape, glued all the paper to the box, used various gums and glues ... but she almost always wins.
My game with my dad involves a fondue pot. About four years ago, before we moved to Illinois, my parents held a garage sale. I took the opportunity to unload some stuff, including a fondue pot that we had received for our wedding in 1995 but never used. It's a small set and came in a square, squat box. We put it out with everything else, and my mom put a green dot sticker on it and wrote "New." It didn't sell, and my parents packed up all the leftover stuff to donate.
We moved shortly thereafter, and my parents came to visit our new home. They brought a housewarming gift with them ... the fondue pot, green sticker and all. I went back to California a couple months after that to see my brand-new nephew, and I wrapped the box and left it on their dining room table when they drove me back to the airport. After that, it became a game between me and my dad. He sent it to me last Christmas, wrapped with something else so I didn't recognize the box. The five of us went to California this past March, and I hid the box in his office. Wrapped with this:
It emits random beeps and is really hard to find. (He knows what these are because he used to drive my sister nuts with them when she worked for him.) So the ball's in his court now. I went to California by myself on Memorial Day weekend, but I only had carry-on luggage so I knew he couldn't put it in my bag. Try explaining to TSA why you have a bunch of fondue skewers in your carry-on ... I crowed about that a little bit, but my dad is crafty. I know the fondue pot will show up when I least expect it now.
Dad plays best prank ever on teenage son - Parenting on Shine (http://www.shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/dad-plays-best-prank-ever-on-teenage-son-2493685#photoViewer=1 - broken link)
OMG that was so funny..I had to post it on facebook..
Julia - that is hilarious! Your dad sounds like a real character.
My BIL's mission in life is to catch me out with a prank call. He has been trying for over 30 years, and now with caller ID has to get really inventive, but he's still trying, and still hasn't caught me.
I didn't want to simply delete it as a duplicate (you didn't have any comments I could merge), but we had a thread about it already.
The pirate one was my favorite.
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I crowed about that a little bit, but my dad is crafty. I know the fondue pot will show up when I least expect it now.
this is exactly the kind of parent I think I'll be...lol
