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[Camp Comic] Friday, August 28, 2015 - Campfire Stories #4
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Tiny hats will never not be funny! Cool story.
He looks like Solid Snake when he pulls the blindfold up.
I remember one Battalion Commander hollering across the motorpool, "STOP ABUSING YOUR PRIVATES, %^@#&$!" when he caught sight of this prank going down.
Anyway, blah blah blah made this account just for this story, we all know the drill. Just wanted to say, you've made something pretty awesome here, and I can't wait for more adventures of our gentle giant Brian, our little Seventeen, and dorky Malachi. Happy trails, and don't get eaten by mountain lions.
I know a family that would go out of their way to get the kids excited about something just to be jerks and laugh at their kids. For instance, they would pull into McDonalds and wait for the kids to get excited, just to drive around and leave...
If I had been the one holding that axe and seeing my hat chopped to bits, someone wouldn't have been able to promise to replace it.
Do it! There's no one who hasn't experienced that horror either with ticks, leeches, or both. I think age appropriate went out a while ago.
Those words are awfully familiar...
*Gets horrible flashback of camping trip ten years ago*
Please do share your story, though! It sounds like it'll be cringe-worthy and fun! ; D
I hope you enjoyed my story as much as I enjoyed seeing it here!
Thanks so much to Katie for an amazing treatment. One detail that I didn't put in the story I sent was that the hat my grandpa got me was a different hat and very nice...but it still was a decade or more later.
This story gets brought up at nearly every large family gathering to much laughter, mine most of all. My dad gets a bit of a sick feeling in his stomach and a sheepish grimace on his face thinking about it. My grandma still gets super angry and glares at my grandpa. And my grandpa just laughs along with me.
To the previous post...while it may seem so, his Grandpa is the furthest thing from a "dick" you could find, it was just poor judgement on all of our parts....I believe he learned this "trick" as a child growing up on the Iron Range of MN in the late '20's or early '30's.
Sometimes adversity has a way of jogging memories in a good way, as had it not been for this terrible event, this great camping trip would have long ago been forgotten.
You don't vote, do you?
This is something my grandfather would have done. He was raised on a farm, went into the navy, and did some interesting things before I was born. He was not above playing a joke and my dad went right all long with it (he wasn't his son, but he felt like it because my mom's parents acted more like actual parents to him throughout high school).
His jokes usually caused chaos and it's because of that chaos that we remember events with more clarity and fondness. He sadly passed away in 2008, but whenever he's brought up two things are brought up how much he loved me and my brother and the stuff he did at something we would have forgot long ago.
Loved the story!
Are you trying to make him feel bad because YOU wouldn't hire him? Who the fuck are you and why should we care? The answer two those questions is: a douchebag on the net, and we shouldn't.
Let me tell you, I would never hire you for any position of authority. I don't care if you claim momentary lapse of non-douchebag behavior. You can't be trusted to not act like a douchebag. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't even give you a broom and a mop, because you'd probably think you're too good for that, which you clearly are not as demonstrated by your douchebag comment.
I guess the moral of the story is that you should never assault your children; mentally, physically, or emotionally. However, we all end up forgiving our father's for their mistakes, as that kind of nonsense is pretty close to inevitable.
P.s. I would rather lose my favorite hat than snort horseradish again...
but this shit is just Traumatic... What a tool.
The comments for story #1 were really great and shared interesting stories. Maybe we could try that? You know, for fun?
BANDIZZLE: Finish high school with something higher than a 2.0 and we'll talk.
Anybody else feel this third-world refugee from responsibility was treated too harshly? Get used to minimum wage; you'll never be worth more than you are now.
But he revealed himself. And he dug his toe in the dirt and went 'aw shucks' and admitted that when his inhuman father laughs about this attack, he laughs too. This indicates to me a complete lack of any moral rigor or sense of justice. Or even of common humanity. Making a kid chop up a prized possession? If it had been his puppy instead of his hat, I bet some of you creatures would be rolling in the aisles still.
DJO stands revealed as a man without any basic humanity. He can be easily bullied into cruelty and he doesn't feel remorse. Just a sort of wistfulness. I've run into such people professionally and I've seen what they've done with the people under them. Hats are only the first things chopped, and blindfolds the first thing discarded. These people make you watch you destroy your works and what you count as essential. They'd be evil, except that they're typically doing it to impress an even more cruel senior manager who seems to like (if not always reward) such behavior.
I don't tolerate such easy weakness and willingness to hurt people. I don't think you should either. DJO is not innocent, and to my mind he is unpunished and possibly uncorrectable. That such people walk the Earth harming other people and not noticing is, to me, intolerable, and worthy of smashing. If you don't see it that way... then go chop up your own puppy. Not because I told you to, but because you like it. And you think there's nothing wrong with that.
can we go back to the simpler times of yore, 3 days ago?
i can't find the cat, can anyone see the hidden kitteh?
beyond my specious cry for cat finding, i'm doing anything i can to derail this train wreck... wait, that's not quite right.
so, what about them Seahawks? Go, Seahawks!
Hajen: Made an account just to try and help you rescue everyone from this tailspin. Now that I'm here though I can't think of one good thing to say about the Seahawks damn. This weather though really, something?
Was it a bit of a cruel prank, as far as pranks go? Yeah, especially on a young kid. Does that make the pranksters bad people? It doesn't sound like it, especially not from the story-teller's perspective. This is the sort of prank that, in hindsight, you realize probably wasn't the best idea, but was funny at the time it was conceived, wasn't funny immediately after it was done, and is funny ten or twenty years later.
I mean, I've done similarly stupid things, like duct-taping my brother to the couch. That was funny, and it's still funny, because everybody involved thought it was funny.
But what was worse was jamming his door with a Lego piece so that he couldn't get out of his room. It seemed funny at the time I came up with the idea, but when I saw the impact that it'd had on him (he was sobbing because he was terrified he couldn't get out of his room, and I didn't realize how hard it would actually be to remove the Lego piece from the gap in the door), that made it not-funny. It's one of those pranks that's not funny to recall even ten years later because I remember that was one of the few times I genuinely did something horrible to my older brother, something that was really, really cruel to him.
I'd never do something like that to him again, and like OP's family, I know better now.
This hat prank is the prank between those two level of pranks I just outlined: funny when thought of, not funny in practice, funny years later when being told at the family dinner table.
I think the worst part about this story was the blindfolded-kid-with-an-axe bit, because like someone else, I was thinking, "Oh god, please don't lose a finger, please don't lose a finger!" Fortunately, no fingers were lost.
Good story, Brendan.
Or if you don't let go of the handle, it's a great way to get dragged in the water and lose a swimsuit.
Long passive-aggressive posts from people trying to explain in minute detail how other people should be thinking and behaving.
Come one, guys and gals... You wanna do this? Go in the comments section of YouTube.
Hope you enjoy the car they made the day they switched the wiring around so the accelerator won't unstick. Have a nice short day.
That was probably the third time he did it. First two I went flying. Third time I thought I was on to the trick. That was a mistake, haha. After that I learned to let it happen or abandon tube before the line tightened.