APRIL 13, 1984
Last night Ben came into my room and asked me for an assortment of very strange materials. I asked him what he wanted them for and he rather sheepishly admitted that he wanted to make a pair of nunchuks; a martial arts weapon of some sort. I firmly said NO, and that he was to pursue the idea no farther. I thought that was the end of it, but I should have known better.
This morning I received a phone call from Ben’s school informing me that Ben had been caught with nunchuks, and now had a police record for carrying a deadly weapon! Ben, being the inventive person that he is, had scavenged together the needed materials on his own, and assembled the nunchucks in his room on the sly after I thought he had gone to bed. He is in big trouble and will be suspended from school for an undetermined length of time. Naturally, Len is away on one of his trips and I was just too flabbergasted over the whole thing to deal with it. It will just have to be put on hold till Len returns!
Busted! Busted! Busted!
4 comments:
Love it! I'll be all the wiser if another little Benny tries his hand at creating "nunchuks".
I think I remember a bit of that story when it was happening. very funny.
I'm sure that I can discredit Ben's story about beating me at arm wrestling by bringing up his questionable criminal background.
No kidding! And with further perusal, I'm certain the ol' journals can provide even more incriminating evidence!
Mom
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