As I have said many times before my mother had a very unique warpedness to her...She took special steps to make sure that she shared it with her children.....
She had these friends, Alan and Kathy, when I was teenager...Alan and his wife were very good friends of both my parents.... I can remember many nights of Alan & Kathy coming to our house and just hanging out...somehow someway my mother and Alan got into a practical joke contest....
The joke started out with silly things like the bug in the ice cube....or she would be eating cake or something and make this terrible face and say to Alan "Did you smell that?" and when he went to smell it she'd smoosh it in his face and he'd have frosting all over his face and hair....yes his hair too...my mother always told me if your going to do something do it right or not at all....so none of this love tap smooshing....when the person fell for the lame old trick you had to make sure they had cake so far up their noses they had snacks for a week.....
On a side note here: there are a couple people in this world that fell for the "Did you smell that" gag with me and to this day still think they 'owe me one' because they were stupid enough to fall for it more then once....ha ha ha suuuuuuuccccckkkkkeeers!!!!! One I 'cringe' when i think of how he is finally going to get me...the other i laugh at because i hardly see him any more....But then again maybe I shouldn't discount anyone who thinks they owe me for a gag....
The first time mom got him really good....Alan drove this green truck that he had built the sides up so he could carry large loads of wood or whatever....well Alan had brought the truck to our house....my mother was out back by it and noticed a p0air of tighty whities that had been living in the mud and yard for God knows how long...they were realllllllly nasty....she took my dad's staple gun and stapled them to the side of Alan's truck....she fully expected to get a phone call a couple hours later....well that afternoon went by.....the next day went by and the one after that it wasn't until THREE days later that alan fiunally noticed them....In the mean time he had driven all over the place with these filthy, muddy disgusting tighty whities stapled to the side of his truck for DAYS!!!! We laughed every day for months over that one... Mom and i had even taken rides into town to check and see if he had found them and was just ignoring it...every time we checked they were still there.... Ohhhh MAN was he pissed when he finally found them...I dont remember what he did in retaliation fo it but it had to be something really good because the next few things mom decided to do she would leave a note that was signed
The Midnight Marauder
Finally mom had to start getting really creative and striking under the cover of darkness...One day mom and I filled I think five green garbage bags with the little small balloons (They were only filled with air) But think about it....five garbage bags filled with wiffle ball sized balloons...
we parked the car under the pavillion behind the A&P in town.... we snuck the bags 0f balloons across the field to Alan's truck...he used to park his truck behind his house....which ended up beinging a baseball sized field away from the pavillion... we filled the cab of his truck with the balloons and left our note taped to the steering wheel....just as we were emptying the last bag of balloons into the cab we hear the fire whistle go off in Arkville....yup you guessed it Alan was a volunteer for Arkville....so here's me and mom running across the field behind the A & P half a bag of balloons emptying behind us as we tried to get to the pavilion where the car was hidden without being caught...if mom got caught pranking Alan there was a consequence i believe...we barely made it under when Alan came running out of the house to his truck.....mom and i were sprawled across the hood of the car trying to catch our breath laughing so hard we were crying.....When Alan opened the door... the balloons started falling out...we heard them popping as he pushed into the cab and took off heading for route 28 so he could get to the firehall....mom and i got in the car and followed.....all over the place down Route 28 you saw balloons....it was soooo funny...when we got to Arkville mom beeped and waved at Alan and he gave us the finger!!!...
Alan told me years later... that had to be one of the funniest things the Midnight Marauder ever did...
I miss doing those silly things...i miss my mom...so friends...neighbors etc...the Midnight Marauder may return...she is like Zorro....if there is a need he appears.....it will be the same with the Midnight Marauder!! Maybe for old times sake one night i will go and wrap Alan's car in saran wrap again and leave a note that says:
In Memory of the Midnight Marauder
She had these friends, Alan and Kathy, when I was teenager...Alan and his wife were very good friends of both my parents.... I can remember many nights of Alan & Kathy coming to our house and just hanging out...somehow someway my mother and Alan got into a practical joke contest....
The joke started out with silly things like the bug in the ice cube....or she would be eating cake or something and make this terrible face and say to Alan "Did you smell that?" and when he went to smell it she'd smoosh it in his face and he'd have frosting all over his face and hair....yes his hair too...my mother always told me if your going to do something do it right or not at all....so none of this love tap smooshing....when the person fell for the lame old trick you had to make sure they had cake so far up their noses they had snacks for a week.....
On a side note here: there are a couple people in this world that fell for the "Did you smell that" gag with me and to this day still think they 'owe me one' because they were stupid enough to fall for it more then once....ha ha ha suuuuuuuccccckkkkkeeers!!!!! One I 'cringe' when i think of how he is finally going to get me...the other i laugh at because i hardly see him any more....But then again maybe I shouldn't discount anyone who thinks they owe me for a gag....
The first time mom got him really good....Alan drove this green truck that he had built the sides up so he could carry large loads of wood or whatever....well Alan had brought the truck to our house....my mother was out back by it and noticed a p0air of tighty whities that had been living in the mud and yard for God knows how long...they were realllllllly nasty....she took my dad's staple gun and stapled them to the side of Alan's truck....she fully expected to get a phone call a couple hours later....well that afternoon went by.....the next day went by and the one after that it wasn't until THREE days later that alan fiunally noticed them....In the mean time he had driven all over the place with these filthy, muddy disgusting tighty whities stapled to the side of his truck for DAYS!!!! We laughed every day for months over that one... Mom and i had even taken rides into town to check and see if he had found them and was just ignoring it...every time we checked they were still there.... Ohhhh MAN was he pissed when he finally found them...I dont remember what he did in retaliation fo it but it had to be something really good because the next few things mom decided to do she would leave a note that was signed
The Midnight Marauder
Finally mom had to start getting really creative and striking under the cover of darkness...One day mom and I filled I think five green garbage bags with the little small balloons (They were only filled with air) But think about it....five garbage bags filled with wiffle ball sized balloons...
we parked the car under the pavillion behind the A&P in town.... we snuck the bags 0f balloons across the field to Alan's truck...he used to park his truck behind his house....which ended up beinging a baseball sized field away from the pavillion... we filled the cab of his truck with the balloons and left our note taped to the steering wheel....just as we were emptying the last bag of balloons into the cab we hear the fire whistle go off in Arkville....yup you guessed it Alan was a volunteer for Arkville....so here's me and mom running across the field behind the A & P half a bag of balloons emptying behind us as we tried to get to the pavilion where the car was hidden without being caught...if mom got caught pranking Alan there was a consequence i believe...we barely made it under when Alan came running out of the house to his truck.....mom and i were sprawled across the hood of the car trying to catch our breath laughing so hard we were crying.....When Alan opened the door... the balloons started falling out...we heard them popping as he pushed into the cab and took off heading for route 28 so he could get to the firehall....mom and i got in the car and followed.....all over the place down Route 28 you saw balloons....it was soooo funny...when we got to Arkville mom beeped and waved at Alan and he gave us the finger!!!...
Alan told me years later... that had to be one of the funniest things the Midnight Marauder ever did...
I miss doing those silly things...i miss my mom...so friends...neighbors etc...the Midnight Marauder may return...she is like Zorro....if there is a need he appears.....it will be the same with the Midnight Marauder!! Maybe for old times sake one night i will go and wrap Alan's car in saran wrap again and leave a note that says:
In Memory of the Midnight Marauder
oh mom, you have to do that i think that will be nice for him to see the memory is still alive.
ReplyDeleteWhat a way to keep alive the sweet memories of your mom! It brings back to me those "bun runs" to the A&P. I loved your mom for her crazy, whacky, wonderful sense of humor. We all did. Please keep on writing!
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