So, mere weeks after his triumphant graduation from art school, my son Nick has been chillaxing a bit before taking on the monster known as Reality. But when my son gets restless, my wife and I get nervous sometimes.
When he was about 7, he and his older brother, Noel, decided to see if they could persuade their 4-year-old sister to dangle from a second-story balcony then drop into a Radio Flyer wagon on the driveway below and ride down the steep incline to the street (Answer: We don't know because a neighbor rushed out and interceded).
Then there was the time when he skateboarded off a one-story flight of stairs just to see what would happen (Answer: The skateboard shatters on impact and your ankle nearly snaps--we have video to prove it). Then there was the time he decided to make his own slasher flick, and we returned from a dinner to find one of our showers splattered with very realistic fake blood a la “Psycho”--with no one at home.
Then there was the time when he was walking back to his apartment with friends in Philly at 3 a.m. and thought swiping a bag of bagels from boxes behind a deli was a good solution to their hunger (three felony counts were eventually dropped after some $1,000 in lawyer and court fees.)
Then there was the time he and his buddies thought it would be interesting to go to a nearby creek and cover themselves in smelly mud, with only the whites of their eyes indicating that they were human, for the sake of a funny photo.
This weekend, Nick and his high-school buddies were restless again. And the weather was warm and muggy. While I sat in the basement typing away on another masterpiece for OS, he and his henchmen inadvertently stumbled on what could be a promising business. Behold, the mobile pool party:
When that got boring, they decided to see what it would feel like to have all that water dumped on their heads (as one friend suggested, a sort of waterboarding):
It’s a great comfort to me that all that creativity and a $120,000 degree got put to good use. In raising Nick, my wife and I have been many things. Bored is not one of them.
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Your son looks part werewolf.
Steve: The next thing I know, they'll be trying to attach a water slide.
LNL: You're right, dogs are simpler--and a lot cheaper. But, then again, dogs don't wreck your cars, nearly burn the house down, and put you on a first-name basis with the municipal judge.