The following came from an anonymous Mother in Austin, Texas - Things I've learned from my BOYS (honest and not kidding): A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep. If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite. A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20 x 20 ft. room. When using a ceiling fan as a baseball bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way. The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan. When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh oh", it's already too late. Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it. Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence. Super glue is forever. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water. Pool filters do not like Jell-O. VCR's do not eject "PB &J" sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving. You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is. Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy. It will, however, make cats dizzy. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy. 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid. .
My first thought when reading about the Clorox and brake fluid thing was, “we just bought Clorox and I think I have some brake fluid in my shop”. Hilarious post @Maggie Mae !!
I'm definitely not a boy but I am soooo going to try that smoke thing. It's the 12-year-old Inner Child getting ready to get the 71-year-old Outer Hag in trouble again. Uh-oh, I told the boyfriend what I was planning and he just headed out to the garage to hide the brake fluid.
Having been a party to raising 2 girls and 4 boys, I have found them to be very different in their tendencies. We raised them exactly the same, but the boys had much more attraction to the outdoors and weapons than the girls. While the girls would address dead animals (for meat), they wanted no part of actually killing an animal. The boys had attraction to weapons that the girls didn't have, and, although I have always banned toy guns from our house, the boys would make them out of sticks or rocks; the girls didn't. The girls were content to sit at a table and read or do crafts, but the boys generally couldn't sit still at anything for more than a few minutes. When we had dogs, the girls would spend time with them because they loved their dogs, but the boys were interested in competing with them and would spend many more hours on the trail with them. I never wanted our girls to be limited in their opportunities, but I also didn't want them pushed in directions they didn't want to go. The current push to get girls and women into STEM careers to satisfy somebody else's quotas really offends me.