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When your children were at a young age, the age when they still believed in the big red guy, did you ever use Santa to help discipline your child? Did the threat to call Santa ever work? During a recent tantrum by my daughter, a simple “Maybe we should call Santa and see if you are still on the nice list” was all it took. The tizzy was over just as fast as it started. Over the years I owe Santa a lot of thank you cards. I don’t think Santa ever intended for parents to use him as a disciplinary tool, but hey, if it works I will use it for all it’s worth!
So what is it about Santa’s naughty or nice list? Was the intended purpose of the list nothing more than a means to bribe to our children to keep them orderly?
Last week blogger extraordinaire August McLaughlin made her own version of a naughty or nice list. Her blog Naughty & Nice: Confessions of a Goodie-Goodie was great fun. So much fun, I have decided to accept her invitation and play in her game. Click on her link for a better understanding of how the game works, and for an entertaining look at her naughty or nice list.
Picture this as an adult version of the naughty or nice list, only this time, you get to play Santa and decide.
Now this game is not quite so simple. I will list things that I MAY or MAY NOT have done! Maybe I am guilty of everything on the list, or maybe I didn’t do any of it. It is up to you the reader to decide which exploits happened, and which are just a fixture of my imagination. (Note to my Mom who reads this: I did not do any of these things. This is just for entertainment value.)
I am so naughty, I:
1. Passed out and woke up locked inside a bar in New Orléans the next morning with no way to get out.
2. Found myself surrounded by ten Mexican Federales, screaming at me in Spanish, with machine guns pointed directly at me while at a bar in a small border town in Mexico.
3. Tried to take a 6 foot hotel Santa Claus decoration up the elevator with me.
4. Played naked red rover at a house Christmas Party.
5. Bribed my high school biology teacher into giving me a “C” in his class after catching him smoking pot after school.
6. Wahoo’d beer from the same convenience store week after week while in high school and never got caught.
7. Drove a jeep off a cliff.
8. Broke wind at Sound Warehouse and when the attractive girl across the record aisle looked up, I pointed at my friend Chris, without him seeing me.
9. After a dare and several beers bunji jumped at the state fair.
10. Ate cow tongue at a pub in London and like it.
11. Fed the homeless in Chicago on Thanksgiving one year.
12. Had dinner and drinks (lots of drinks) with a King in Dallas, Texas.
13. Got tongue-tied when author Harlan Coben said “How you doing, Big Guy”
14. Broke into the Priest’s supply room at my all-boys high school and ate all the unblessed communion wafers.
So guess away! In the comment section below let me know which things you believe I did or didn’t do. The winner gets….well, nothing. The correct answers will be revealed in next Tuesday’s blog.
1, 2, 5, 8-14! You naughty boy!
Not as naughty as you might expect!
So the tables have turned! Love it, Tim. And thanks for your kind words.
On to my guesses:
1. Yes.
2. Hmm… no. (If yes, thank god you survived!)
3. Ha! Yes. I hope. (Also hope you took pics??)
4. YES! (Not that I was there…or anything.)
5. Ooh, yes.
6. How does one wahoo a beer? Bet you did it!
7. Agh… I hope not. (See #2′s note)
8. HA! Yes.
9. Yes. (Though I’d never have the courage, booze or not.)
10. Yes!
11. Sounds like your son, right, Ms. O’Brien?
12. Yes. (Story please?)
13. Yes.
14. No. (Unless you also had peanut butter to fix the styrofoam flavor.)
Hope I won nothing!
Can’t wait for the followup…
The tables are turned! FYI – Wahoo’ing beer is simple. You pick up a six-pack, preferably a 12-pack of your favorite suds, walk to the door of the convenience store, turn to the cashier, hold your package high and yell WAHOO! Then quickly run out the door and into your friends car. Now this was in high school, which was pretty much before in-store cameras became all the rage.
This is pretty simple. I think the answer to all of them is Yes (sorry Mrs. O’Brien), or at least you were certainly capable of doing all these things. The only one I hesitate on is #6, not because you wouldn’t try but I can’t fathom how one would succeed at wahooing beer from the same store every week; if this one is true you must reveal your technique!
It may or may not have been from the same store. Can’t say yet. But Chris and Mike Chapman may or may not have been the trend setters in the art of the technique.
One sounds like an awesome start to a story. I think 2 & 3 are true and everything from 8 on
You are a pretty good judge on character. Pretty close but not quite all correct.
Unfortunately, some of those in the middle might be true!
I’ve lived thru the listed items once before when Pat and I were youthful,loving , caring parents.My old heart can’t handle a rerun.Am glad y’all did exacuate the plunging jeep though.No wonder your Dad is older than me !!!!!!!!!! (<:
You know, I would have to say all the above. LOL!!!!!
Why do I think that? Well you an Irish boy aren’t ya?
Irish, yes! Crazy enough to all these? No.
Well, if all of the above are yes, you had a fabulous childhood/teenage/young adult life! I hope all of them are true, except #2, that one scares me. Poor Mama O’Brien.
Fun game!
She has not called, yet. Hopefully she skipped this blog!
This is such a fun game. Thanks for keeping it going Tim!
I’m guessing you’ve done most of them, especially the ones involving alcohol. I’d even bet money that the ones listed the don’t include alcohol, actually involved alcohol.
Glad your mom reads your posts too. Keep you honest (sort of). Or perhaps provides an opportunity to come clean about some things? Um hum?
So here’s my guesses – You’ve actually experienced numbers 1, 2, 3, 6, 7. 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14. You naughty, naughty, fun, fun boy!
Patricia Rickrode
w/a Jansen Schmidt
I’m guessing that you did them all.
No wonder Sandra and I have gray hair!
Glad I didn’t know about it at the time,
especially since you had your friend Chris
with you many times. :>)
I’m not sure if these are right, but I sure did laugh reading them. Okay, here goes:
1. Yes
2. No
3. Yes
4. No
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. No
8. Yes
9. Yes
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. No
14. Yes
Can’t wait to find out the REAL answers. I might play too this coming Saturday when, for once, I won’t have something pre-scheduled on my blog.
I look forward to your list on Saturday! As far as your guesses, you got more correct than incorrect!
Tim, thanks for a great laugh. what a hoot. I’m going to say yes to all of them, although I’m sure I’m wrong. I just can’t imagine which ones might be true or not. But I look forward to finding out which is true and which is notl Your life is so much more fun than mine. Goody goody two shoes in school, graduated at 16, immediately went to work, got married two years later and had my first 3 years later. sheesh…boring.
thanks again for a good laugh
I doubt you have been boring Louise! Andy if I have done any of these things I would call myself exciting, I would say stupid is more accurate!
I’m pretty sure I know them all…
1. No
2. No
3. Kinda
4. No
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. Yes
8. Yes
9. No
10. No
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. Yes
You did pretty well here Katie, but then again you should! You still didn’t get them all correct though…
LOL! I’m gonna guess 6-14 are true. If you didn’t do them, you know someone who did, right?
Gets me thinking about my own list… Oh, and used the Santa thing early and often. Even sing the song, which my daughters HATE. “You better watch out…”
Kecia, you are a pretty good judge of character. Not entirely correct, but pretty darn close. Santa does make for great motivation in children’s behavior!
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