I sometimes question whether the teenage male brain is actually fully connected to the body it occupies, or if it’s just in there rattling around like a peanut in a soda can.
Take my grandson Nate and his buddy Roger, for example. Nate is in the middle of a home improvement project—he’s demolishing his bedroom ceiling so we can replace it. (Translation: I'm supervising with a steely gaze and a coffee mug the size of a feed bucket.)
Enter Roger. Roger sees Nate removing the sheetrock ceiling like a normal human with a hammer and thinks, "You know what this situation needs? A flying headbutt."
So he jumps… and puts his head through the ceiling.
Yes. HIS ACTUAL HEAD.
I stood there blinking, trying to decide if I was witnessing a renovation or a mating display. The dog left the room. The goat outside stopped chewing and just stared. I think time paused briefly to say, “Did he just…?”
Apparently Roger believed his skull was more effective than a hammer. And, in a way, I guess it was—I mean, he made a hole. He also made a dent in my faith in human evolution.
We are now seriously considering installing warning labels on the
house:
“Caution:
This Ceiling Is Not Load-Bearing for Craniums.”
Or
maybe just:
“Friends
Don’t Let Friends Demo With Their Faces.”
This, my friends, is why we pray. Constantly. Not just for our children’s safety, but for their common sense to hurry up and mature before the ER punch card fills up.
Because drywall shouldn't come between you and your frontal lobe.
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2 comments:
OMG.... the things boys do to themselves!!! I hope he wasn't hurt... but I don't think you'd have thought it was funny if he was.
I hope part of Nate's room remodel w/ be correcting the hanging of the flag??? It's not being used as a curtain... is it?
Roger was hurt, but not seriously. He had a sore neck for a few days but has since recovered - because he's 15. But when he's 30 and suffering from headaches and a massage therapist asks him if he's ever had whiplash, I hope he remembers this and isn't too embarrassed to admit it.
Nate had the flag hanging on the wall originally but liked the effect of the light shining through it when he hung it over the window. So.... yes, and no, on the curtain thing. It wasn't intended as a curtain but as a wall hanging. I checked with DH and he said it wasn't really disrespectful. Where DH works at GE, if they put the flag at half-mast they should pull down all other flags so they're not higher. But they continue to fly the others right where they are - now that IS disrespectful.
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