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Cheesetastrophe

After school on Thursday I tossed The Boy a hunk of cheese from the kitchen for a snack. At least, that’s what I’d intended to do. In hindsight, this was a poor judgment call. What I actually did was lob a cheesy grenade-like projectile of doom at him.

He missed. It hit him squarely in the forehead and he was down instantly.

In that moment I was transformed from Super Dad, Almighty Giver of Snacks, into a cheese-wielding merchant of death and misery. On special today: one blow to the head FREE with every Mini Babybel.

Comments

  1. fyngyrz on 2007-09-24 03:24:17 wrote: Curd-ses! Foil-ed again! No matter how you slice it, no matter how fondue’f The Boy you are, you bleu it. You creamed him; now you’ll have to buy him off. Too young for cheesecake, too old for cheesy mugging, he may milk you with a refinement even the Swiss would envy. But there are holes in that plan; perhaps a trip to Philadelphia will suffice, or even a wedge of muppets - after all, we know forgiveness Camembert. Even then, your trials may not be over; for She Who Must Be Obeyed will eventually return and grill you until you melt o’er the crusts of your guilt, m’boy - toasted, truly.

  2. Sylvia on 2007-09-24 05:25:40 wrote: ROFL at fyngyrz! Very clever. Wish I had time to research types of cheese and join in the banter. What also made me laugh: “He missed.” HE missed. Not I missed. We’ll see if that works with LATW. ;)

  3. John on 2007-09-24 06:27:34 wrote: @fyngyrz, haha! @Sylvia, surely some responsibility must fall on the one who is supposed to do the catching? A tiny bit? :-)

  4. s’mee on 2007-09-24 11:06:07 wrote: I say this is fortuitous. Think ahead, um, say to when the girl begins dating. Those little cheese balls will come in handy with the little cheese balls who come to date her! ThhhWACK! (just like David to Goliath!) In reality, you could be a hero.

  5. Sylvia on 2007-09-24 11:59:16 wrote: Yes of course the catcher should take some responsibility. Let’s see, he probably should have not undertaken to CATCH

  6. Sylvia on 2007-09-24 12:00:30 wrote: WHOOPS! didn’t finish the sentence. Shouldn’t have tried to catch anything while he was still under four feet tall and still refining his fine motor skills. Silly child.

  7. Sylvia on 2007-09-24 12:03:09 wrote: Geeze, why does my comment keep posting itself before I’m through talking? The gods have taken a hand it seems! ;)

  8. Michael | Family Hack on 2007-09-24 14:29:56 wrote: OK…you’ve just lured out a lurker. I’m dying over here. Laughing so hard I have tears rolling down my cheeks. Thanks for the giggles!

  9. Brandi on 2007-09-25 21:16:40 wrote: joining in with michael here. if i don’t shut up, i’m gonna wake up my own litle monsters! so sorry the boy is injured but these comments are cracking me up!