Speaking of Gophers

When we lived in a more rural area in Monterey County we lived on a hill and had all kinds of critters. I can't tell you how many times I was doing yard work and ran yelling while pulling down my pants at the same time feeling something crawling up my leg. :-o (again rural) :-D

Anyway, after a rain the yard was usually littered with gopher carcases. We had a big cat.
My youngest daughter (the money hungry one) would shovel them up and toss them over the fence which was acres of pretty much nothing.
Greedy child that she was tried to hustle me for more money.
The deal was .25 for small ones .50 for larger. She wanted a dollar, I said no, she tried to gross me out by saying she was going to cut them in half with the shovel (which she would never do).
ME- OK
Her- their guts will ooze out
Me- OK
Her- there green and slimy
At that point she started gaging, eyes watering, barely able to say Mom stop.
I was laughing so hard I couldn't stand. The harder she gaged the harder I laughed.
This was a child that gaged at dog poo. It still makes me laugh. Her, not so much. LOL

 

And the moral of the story is......????LOL Just kidding Darlene. I have two2 children that have tried similar on me forgetting who taught them how to gross each other.:-D rolleyesMy older siblings tried grossing me at the table when eating but soon tired of me as I was a tom boy in my younger yearsrolleyes and went to my sister Which was fairly easy to gross out.rolleyes:-D My son was the wheeler dealer between the two of them. Thanks for the story Darlene.

BT

 

I had a few whining one summer, "I'm BORED! There is NOTHING to do!" So, I figured I'd give them something to do:-D You know, kinda help things along..

I gave them coffee cans, and told them to pick the potato bugs off the plants, and put them in the cans. I'd give them a penny for EACH potato beetle they "canned"..... WOW, was THAT ever a mistake! They darn near took me to the cleaners! roflmao

Hey, I didn't offer that again! roflmao

Yeah, BT, after the pennies stared to turn into dollars, I learned real quick! :-D

 

Ah, boredom was a major condition with mine. I was an only child, and used to ask them, "how can you be bored, you have each other?" They would look at one another and snarl. :-D

 

I bet they both looked at you with nothing but " content " and thought to themselves " how stupid can any human being be " LOL i'm also very surprised they didn't actually say it, but for the fact their buttocks would turn red after saying it ! LOL

 

Mine numbered 4 and they got nasty with each other, never with me. Not that they were beat or even spanked for that matter, they were respectful. A trait that seems seriously lacking in some children today.
I did threaten a lot.
I can't watch those nanny shows where the parents need help with screaming little demons. Come on, their smaller they can be taken. :-D