Me confess? Never!!!
"Errr mum. I think it's about time I came clean with ya. Now promise you won't get mad.... okay?Remember all those years ago when we lived in that house in High Street and, well we...... had a bit of a problem with mice around the place?
I have a slight confession to make. They umm, just didn't turn up from out of the blue. That pocket money I earned back then wasn't all wasted on bubble gum and football cards. You see, I went to that pet shop just down the road and bought home 6 mice which I intended to put in that old aquarium out in the shed. And yes... silly me left them in my bedroom while I was out there getting their new home in order.
I mean.... how the hell was I to know some smart arsed mouse was gonna eat a hole in the shoebox they were in?? You'd reckon that bloke who sold 'em to me would've told me they eat through cardboard!
Yeah! They all made a run for it and spread out everywhere. You weren't really imagining things back then. There really was a couple of white mice climbing up and down your bedroom curtains in the middle of the night.
No mum. They weren't really albino field mice.
And yes Mum. I did feed that fat, lazy cat way too much!"
I don't think I'm alone when it comes to childhood misdemeanors, mischievousness or just plain stuff ups. Most times I was caught out....... sometimes I got away with it.
I was discussing this recently with a friend here and we both agreed..... we're never gonna own up to our crimes!!
But why? My mother is now 78, so she is hardly going to belt me over the head with a wooden spoon. And the statue of limitations must surely cover minor offenses such as putting her cake tin out of shape when I blew up a heap of garden snails with some fire crackers.
I dunno......maybe sometimes it's just best to let sleeping dogs lie.
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They made sure all these stories came out once they were safely married and had children of their own... there wouldn't have been much you could do about it by then!!! lol
We could laugh about it after all that time, and thank goodness I wasn't aware of what they were up to back then,I don't think I would have seen the funny side at the time!!!
I admit I got caught most of the time. Mostly because other kids would tell
What a time we had!
i see u decided to post , if i m not wrong , ur first blog.
came the fullness of time , as we say in greece , to be commented and dont stay a simple commentator.
I wish it's a great beginning for u as a blogger.
i can see what u mean and speaking the truth ,i felt the same several times.
i dont know what pushes us , to expose such minor covers or mischiefs , happened so many years back , but its something , i think ,that has to do with our conscience.
maybe by confessing the minors remains more space , in our conscience i mean , for the larger and heavier sins.
maybe
Worst I remember is stealing about 60 cents from my brother - although it was a long time ago - perhaps in today's money, it is worth $2 - shame on me!
Goodie 2 shoes me......
And what else can you do but laugh about it.
Don't tell me Max. Ya put the odd cricket ball through a window, didn't you? Been there done that!
You're not wrong Alf. It is indeed my maiden blog. Had a few reservations -- I worried it might go the same way as the Titanic!
And my conscience is pretty clear. Anyhow, me mum stopped baking cakes years ago. She reckoned they started tasting funny.
Hi and thanks Tia. You'd reckon that parents would have some kind of inkling that their kids are up to something. After all, they were once kids too.
Oh well Toffee. If knocking off 60 cents from ya brother was the worst crime you've ever committed you turned out okay. Good to see ya.
so our blogs can never have , the same end as titanic's
I just hope my mother isn't reading this!!
It wasn't until Pomana mentioned in a later blog that she had made a comment here, that I actually knew you had made one as well.
So come on...... you can spill the beans on a tale or two.
Meanwhile..... its back to the future for me.
If you were, I don't think I would be alive right now to write this comment.
But it sounds like ya would have been fun to have around whether catching frogs down the creek or blowing up the odd letterbox.