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It was a real date night, one with dinner and a movie. Uncle Dan was available to watch the kids, and they were excited that he was coming to babysit.
The couple enjoyed their dinner and were half-way through the movie when Louis' pager went off. He stepped out of the theater to look at the page and returned a few minutes later.
"Who was that?" Alice asked.
"I don't know," Louis whispered. "Only 6 numbers came through and I don't recognize them. They'll page me again if they need me."
About 20 minutes later Louis' pager vibrated again and he stepped back out of the theater. Several minutes later he returned with a grin on his face.
"That was my brother, Dan calling from his new cell phone. I'll explain in a minute when the movie is over, its about to end."
After the movie, Louis told what he knew of the story.
" It seems that Dan has gotten locked out of the house with both kids. They are fine and are waiting in his car for us to return."
Alice asks, "Did you tell him that the neighbors have a spare key?"
"Yes. But he seems content to wait for us."
Upon their arrival they find their two children along with Uncle Dan waiting in his car. The garage door was open and the interior door to the house was tightly locked.
The story as Uncle Dan told it :
While playing happily in the family room, the six year old, Larry, decided to show off his climbing skills by scaling the outside of the banister that lead upstairs. In doing so, he broke one of the newel posts. Uncle Dan thought that it would be best to fix the wood, so he told the kids that he was going to go in the garage and get a hammer and nails.
The three year old, Amanda, clung to her uncle, so he picked her up and left to get the tools.
When Dan and Amanda were in the garage, Larry thought it would be funny to lock and shut the door. He did, and then opened it back up to laugh at his uncle. Then he showed them what he had done. "I just locked you guys out when I shut the door like this!"
Only this time when he shut the door, Larry was on the other side of it.
So, they were all locked out and it was cold and dark outside. Dan put the kids in his car and gave them some extra shirts that he had on hand to wear when they got cold. Then they waited. And waited.
For some reason, Uncle Dan never babysat again.
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Uncle Dan sounds like a good sport, but I doubt he ever had kids of his own after this.
ReplyDeleteWait. Wasn't there a John Candy movie like this? heh heh Nice story for US, but not so nice for Uncle Dan.
ReplyDeleteheh heh
And Uncle Dan never babysat again? The wimp! :-)
ReplyDeleteGood story, LM.
And the bannister? Did little Larry get punished? Poor Uncle Dan. He tried to do the right thing. And look where it got him.
ReplyDeleteThat is HYSTERICAL!
ReplyDeleteOne time my two cousins were babysitting my young toddler son, who btw LOVED to run around naked. When I walked in after, they were hovered over the bed looking behind it, he was stuck there but perfectly happy and absolutely naked. One cousin looked up to me and said, "We simply have no explanation."
It is a sinking feeling when that door closes and you realize what just happened. I wrote about that very thing last year.
ReplyDeletePoor Dan...that was a long, cold, dark evening.
Priceless! I had a kid lock me out of the house when I was babysitting. After that, I always made sure the people I was sitting for left me a spare key while I was there!
ReplyDeleteThat is soooo funny, it could be an episode on a television sitcom!
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