Please shoot me now.

[janradder]

Twenty minutes ago, Arie learned that the tiny bits of plastic and paper he and his brother threw down the heating vent in their room two years ago didn't burn up in the furnace but instead is sitting somewhere in the ductwork. Since then, he's spent the past twenty minutes crying and debating in an effort to get me to dismantle the ductwork and remove the twenty cents worth of crap that's inside it. He's also started asking Éiden if he's going to throw stuff down the vent when Éiden has gone up to his room. If I never hear someone talk about crap in the ductwork again, it'll be too soon.

Comments

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

you can't hear it, but I'm laughing at you right now

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Well at least my pain's good for something, then.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we haven't heard the last of it.

[sdn.livejournal.com]

why is he upset? i'm confused.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

So am I. So am I.

[joelarnold.livejournal.com]

As a parent, I can totally sympathize with you. BUT I know when I was that age, I would've totally wanted to get that crap out, too! It would be like a time capsule!

[janradder.livejournal.com]

A time capsule of crap!

[dryadjuna.livejournal.com]

All this talk about "crap" in the ductwork might give Arie some ideas about how to convince you to actually open the grating....

[janradder.livejournal.com]

It might if I were allowed to use the word "crap" around him. According to Arie, though, crap is a swear-word (though he has no problem using it or others even when he's banning it from other people's vocabularies -- it's also not just the grating -- it was dumped down the grating and is now in the bowels of the ductwork o the only way to get any of it out is to take all the ductwork apart in the basement, which is most definitely not going to happen).