I have a third child.
I know I have only talked about Bryan and Caitlin, but that's because I don't see my third child very often. This child is the oldest and was around quit a bit when Bryan and Caitlin were small.
I had very little control over this kid and I admit, I was content when this child wasn't in the house. As Bryan and Caitlin got older, we saw less and less of this oldest sibling. This kid would come and go on a whim, but when the three of them were in the house .... well it was chaos.
After Bryan moved out, there were very few visits from this kid. Since Caitlin has moved out, I had almost forgotten about the fact that I had three children .... until last night.
I don't know when, but that kid must have come home when I wasn't there.
I have my TV, DVD player, CD player, and receiver all hooked up and controlled by one remote controller. ( I have some testosterone in that department) I am anal about cords and wires. All my cords are neatly rolled up and secured with a zip tie. They lay flat behind each unit and fit snug to the wall.
I loaded 5 discs in the CD player, hit the remote and nothing. No power, no CD player, nothing. After forever, trying to get it to work, I pulled the unit away from the wall.
This is what I found:
There was an extra cable cord, not attached to anything. There was a power cord plugged into the wall, but going into nothing. Proof, hands down, no doubt ... that kid was back.
You probably are wondering what this kid's name is.
My mystery child has a couple names ...
"Not Me" ... "I didn't do it" or "I don't know"
When ever something went wrong, got broken, or came up missing, I'd ask Bryan and Caitlin,
"Who did this?"
That's when I became aware I had a third child.
16 comments:
Damn, I guess that means I have SIX kids now!!! Cuz we have a kid by that very same name in our house...can't stand that kid.
We kept our third's name short: "What?"
I did a double take on the post. Actually triple.
You're funny :-)
Oh no you didn't. I was in total shock at first...you totally had me. Jerk ;)
You had me going there about the 3rd child. Recently I was blaming my kids for things then caught the cat doing them.
Mommy, I'm home.
Was it Quinn who messed with the power cords?
Mr B
That was great!!!
In our house we had 'gremlins'..
I like the 3rd (or 5th or 15th what ever) invisible child better! :)
This infamous "not me"...I had an imaginary friend when I was 3-4 and he did everything that was "wrong". It was great. Too bad my mom knew he wasn't real!! :)
This is hilarious - what a great writer you are!
I have a child too. She's illigitimate, since I live alone ;)
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In my house, it's the Tazmanian Devil (wonder who that could be!?!)
That kids gets around! I think I have seen him poking around our house as well!
Oh, yeah, I have a boarder in the house called Mr Nobody.
Just discovered your blog - this is a great post. I'm looking forward to reading more.
I find it's a time saver to just tie cables and wires together when installing a computer. No matter how well they're laid out, they self-tangle in about 3 days.
It may have something to do with the current running through the wires. Of course, it could just as easily be the third child.
This reminds me of Bill Cosby who said in one of his performances he doesn't consider people with only one child parents because they know who did it. They don't have to ask who put the vick's on the cheez-its.
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