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PROMPT January 8th Share a story from your childhood when you did something you weren’t supposed to. Did you get caught? Oh, the things I've done in the past. Most of them stupid. Never really done maliciously, although sometimes there were hurtful and sad outcomes. Those I am truly sorry for. But that wasn't the extent of it. A lot of the "naughty" things I did were actually pranks and jokes on the people I love the most. Of course, it's always the people you love the most. And one of those people is...my mom. She's been gone 15 years now, but she was my best friend, always, and I absolutely LOVED to prank her. Not because I was mean, but because she was such a good sport about it. My dad loved to prank her too. My dad and I were of a like mind and we took every opportunity to team up. Now don't get in an uproar. We were never malicious or hurtful to her. It was great fun, and like I said, she was always a good sport about it. Our favorite prank was the Jeopardy prank. My dad and I watched Jeopardy every single day. Even now that he's gone I still watch Jeopardy every single day. Okay, back to the story. We lived in Paradise (yes, the town that burned down) and being in the foothills we only got two TV channels. Yes, two. Hey, it was the 80's and we didn't have sophisticated equipment or technology yet. Anyway, Jeopardy came on at 6:00 on channel 10. And the same episode aired again at 6:30 on channel 12. When we figured this out we devised a little scheme. Dinner in my house was served and on the table at 6:30 every night. So that meant my mom was usually in the kitchen cooking when the first episode of Jeopardy aired. And we were in the living room learning all the answers. When we sat down to eat we tuned in to the second airing of Jeopardy. And because my dad and I already knew the answers we would shout them out like we were some kind of geniuses. My mom was amazed. "How did you know that," she would ask. "My goodness, you're both so smart," she would say. "How come you even know stuff like that?", she would wonder. We just sat back on our laurels and basked in our little scheme. And this went on for a year or so. One day, my mom told us she ordered pizza for dinner and asked us to go pick it up. "Why not have it delivered?", we asked. "Because," she answered, "I don't want it delivered cold. I want hot pizza." Well, my dad couldn't argue with that so we went. And naturally, my mom had timed it so we would have to pick up the pizza at about 6:10 or 6:15. That meant we couldn't watch the first airing of Jeopardy. But no worries, we could still shout out some of the answers. Boy, were we surprised. We sat down to hot pizza and while we enjoyed the crispy, cheesy goodness of a large pepperoni my mom started shouting out all the answers! She got all of them right! Our mouths dropped open! She played us like a stacked deck of cards. You see, she was on to us all along. She let us think we had her completely snowed. But then...she taught us a good one. She purposely set up the pizza sting and while we were gone she watched the first episode of Jeopardy. So she was already armed with all the answers! It was her turn sit back on her laurels and bask her own little scheme. And we were chagrined. It wasn't much longer that the TV stations figured out Jeopardy was double-airing and they fixed that right away. And of course that meant the playing field was finally leveled. No more scheming for us. Well, as I mentioned, my mom was my best friend and she was always a good sport. I look back on those days with a smile and a tear. I miss her so much. I miss my dad too. And in honor of those day I still watch Jeopardy every single day. |
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