Adam Bradbury
www.babyboybradbury.blogspot.com
February 16, 2017
Fart Jokes Will Never Not Be Funny to my Boys
So let me see if I can describe what I saw in words.
The other night the two oldest got in a tussle. I don't remember what it was about and I can all but guarantee it was something silly. Mackay retaliated and struck a blow of words that crossed the acceptable line drawn in the shifting sands by their parents. Brigham sulked, laying upside down and backwards on the couch, just two seats to the left of me. Mackay was instructed to "make the situation better." Following the instruction was not optional nor was it suggestive; it was more like when Reagan told Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall'. It was coming down or nukes were going to fly.
The problem was, Mackay was not repentant of his crime. So in the only form of defiance he could get away with at the time, he made light of the 'apology'. Noting that Brigham's face was upside down, about where a normal persons shin cap might be, he decided to invert his own face to be able to see eye to eye...and upside down. So Mackay immediately pops up into some sort of yoga-pose-A-frame position with his hands and feet planted firmly on the ground spread wider than his shoulders and his butt proudly up in the air.
From this vantage point he could peer between his legs and be face to face with his brother. But what is better than being upside down, face-to-face? Being super-close, upside-down, face to face. So Mackay scooched back as far as he could, Eventually putting Brigham's head just between his legs.
Well, we all know what comes next.
The fart was long, it was loud, it had a tremendous audience and it almost made Mom's Valentine's Day flowers wilt in the other room. There was no way for Brigham to avoid it and there was no way to deny that it was pretty awesome/grotesque. Mackay had won this round.
David stood up, bent over at the hip, with one hand on his side and the other pointing accusingly at Brigham blurted out, "Haaaa haaa!!!!!" with no less than 5 exclamation points. Their Mother couldn't help but laugh out loud; she tried to hide it but ended up looking more like the Mona Lisa than the Thinking Man. Brigham actually licked his tongue on a pillow to get the taste out of his mouth.
They will grow up someday and no longer be cub scouts, but I don't believe I'll see the day they won't look at a well executed fart joke and not find some level of entertainment.
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