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TITLE: Older and Wiser? | Previous Challenge Entry
By Michelle Knoll
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Older? Yes. Wiser? Not necessarily, if you take into account the time that one of them needed a wire as he worked on a ham radio project. Wrapped up in his work like an absent-minded professor, he looked around for a piece of wire to complete whatever it was he was trying to do. Finding a piece of wire on the floor, he quickly proceeded to pick up said wire, and clip it in two with a pair of wire cutters. The problem? It was plugged into a wall outlet!
Wiser? Not entirely, if you take into account the time that the other of them decided to earn some money by painting houses. The only problem is, he had no knowledge as to how one should calculate the hours required or the manpower needed to complete such an enormous task as painting an entire house. So… mom painted the house for him. (He was good at finding mom extra jobs to do, even when she wasn’t looking for extra work.)
Wiser? Not exactly, if you take into account the fact that whenever either of them decided that a cable or wire or antenna needed to be run from a room to the outside of the house, or from a room to the basement, they merely grabbed dad’s drill and found an inconspicuous place in the floor to create an access hole for running the needed wire or cable. Most homeowners are afraid of termites causing damage to their homes. My parents didn’t need to worry about termites; these two did a much better job at chewing up wood than any termites would do!
Wiser? Not quite, if you take into account the situations that arose when either of them decided to “help” around the house. Washing dishes for mom turned into water fights with the hose from the kitchen sink, and washing clothes turned into chemical warfare because of adding bleach at all the wrong times. There were countless late afternoons where I would find Mom standing in the kitchen, looking at the ceiling, trying to understand why there were water droplets hanging precariously, waiting to pounce on her head. There were as many countless evenings where I would find Mom, standing with arms outstretched, holding up a single bed sheet that now sported a mysterious gaping hole from the application of the “help” that they had provided. I peered through the hole back at mom, who merely sighed and folded the sheet anyway. And all I could think was, “Dennis the Menace, eat your heart out.” Yes, eat your heart out, the same way the bleach ate through the sheet.
I suppose through the years, one could say that these two have become a little wiser than they were way back when. Childhood, for the three of us, was “never a dull moment.” These two could always find some angle to work, some invention to produce, some scheme to set in motion. I would always sit back and watch, and marvel at the fact that they could dance dangerously close with disaster, and still manage to remain alive.
The one that cut the wire plugged into the wall is now an electrical engineer, if you can believe it. The one that smooth-talked mom into painting the houses he was supposed to be painting is now moving into politics, which I could have told everyone would eventually happen.
Older? Yes. Wiser? Now, probably yes. Though the jury’s still out on that one.
My two older brothers: opinionated, creative, inventive, quick thinking, fun loving, imaginative, and yes, VERY resourceful.
You know what? I think I’ll keep ‘em.
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This is funny. Well done.