SlackSATURDAY - Prankstuh Extraordinaire

Just a quick funny.  So, the other night 15-y-o Evie called over the balcony asking her dad if he knew anything about her being in trouble. He's like, ::shrug:: "No." She asked if he knew anything about a note from Mommy.  "No." She asked whether he knew if Mommy went upstairs at all that morning or night.  "No." She asked him to talk to me about "a note" when I got home late that night with LaLa from her gym. "Surrrre."  <Apparent giggling from my 9-y-o, Phoebs.> Seems this little prankster wrote on a paper towel (which I've been known to do), in "mommy's handwriting" (chicken scratch), a note saying "Evie, no more cell phone for the rest of the school year!"  Phoebs dropped the note on a basket of Evie's dirty clothes in her room early that morning, then let Evie stew about it all day.  This little evil prankster genius didn't crack.  Not once!  Never let on that she wrote the note.  Evie was FRETTING about this all day long, unbeknownst to me, wondering what she was in trouble for, not wanting to bring it up to me (I guess she was hoping I'd forget?!).  I had no idea any of this was going on. We've been laughing so hard about this ever since.  Prankstuh Extraordinaire, take a bow!

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Mags Karn
Author of The Tell: A Memoir
*** WRITING THE WRONG ***
No more silence.  No more shame.