What is it with BOYS?? An amusing story....

[Shine]

:eyes:

So my soon-to-be 12 yr old son was obsessed yesterday with decorating the outside of our house in the most goulish way possible. He took a Darth Vader head mask thing, an extra set of his clothes and shoes,and filled them, to make it look like it was a DEAD BODY laying next to our front door. Then he wrote a sign saying, "This is what happened to the last trick or treater! BEWARE." He has this funny fake severed bloody hand, complete with the bone sticking out, laying next to the "dead body", along with a creepy-looking 3 ft. rubber snake....

Now keep in mind we've got peace flags all over the place outside, buddha statues, a kwan yin statue, peace ribbons hanging from our front tree....ya know,generally a PEACEFUL vibe...but my kid is absolutely thrilled to make our house look like a murder scene. What's up with that?!

I guess I just have to laugh. It comes with the territory, I suppose. I never had a brother, so sometimes I just feel clueless about the whole boy thang...

Is this "normal"? ;)

[dubyaD40web]

1. Classic!

[Shine]

4. so, you don't think I should be worried?

:)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Extremely normal.

And quite hilarious too! :rofl:

[Shine]

5. well, I'm glad to hear you think so, cuz I wasn't so sure.

;)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. When I was a kid

making my house as goulish as possible was always my Halloween priority! He seems to be doing great work! kudos!

[Shine]

6. Yeah, I guess it's a good thing he's workin' out that energy in a

fairly harmless way.

I don't have to be worried, then....right? ;)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

8. I don't believe so

....I think I turned out alright :evilgrin:

[Shine]

10. Good to know.

;)

[nickinSTL]

7. I would love to do that to my house NOW

but, I live in an apartment...so...it'll have to wait :evilgrin:

[johnnie]

9. Interesting

I have heard that this guy used to decorate his front yard at Halloween like that. Kind of makes ya think:




;)

[Shine]

12. OK, I"m clueless. WHO is that guy? I take it he's some mass murderer.

right? Greeeat.

;)

[johnnie]

13. Jeff Dahmer

Yeah, he did a few killings in his day.

[Shine]

15. Oh yeah, that guy.

ewww...

Nope, I think my son is well-adjusted and relatively normal. ;)

[ComerPerro]

11. That's awesome, and very normal

It is Halloween, afterall.

[Shine]

14. Yeah, you're right. But my daughter would NEVER want to do that.

She's more into the cutesy black kitty thing...

Boys and Girls really are different animals!

[ComerPerro]

16. Glad you noticed

[indigo32]

17. HeHe

12 huh? Wait till he starts into the serious physical risk taking.

Alright Guys... how many of YOU hung on to the bumper of a car as it pulled you across some ice?

[AngryAmish]

18. You can't skitch anymore

The bumpers nowadays are not good handles.

[indigo32]

19. My best friends boy

scraped himself up pretty good two years ago.

My brother had to have stitches in his chin.

[MadHound]

20. You were pulled across ice? Wow, we just were pulled across pavement

When skateboards first came out, it was all the rage to grab onto a bumper and hang on for dear life. And a real pain on the turns. Got my fair share of road rash doing that, but it was still a blast.

And yes, this is normal for a twelve year old boy. The male of the species tends to go through a period of being absolutely fascinated with blood and gore and horror, adrenaline junky stuff. Generally we outgrow it.

[indigo32]

21. truth told

I never did any such thing...
but then, I'm a girl ;)