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| Get Cocky And We Will Teach You A Lesson In Trust, Don't. |
We used to play a pretty cool game with an Ironing
board and someone would stand on it blindfolded with their hands held
by two helpers. The helpers would slightly lift and jostle the board while lowering their
hands to simulate the board raising in the air. Hopefully, this would disorient the blindfolded rider into thinking they were about to step off into the abyss only to
find they were still only a few inches off the ground. That was
supposed to be the fun and harmless game but my brother and I added a twist. We would gain the victim's confidence with a simulated lift as
described and then switch it up for a real five foot lift and then
see how cocky they were. For example, my little sister was getting
all cocksure about how she knew we were only fake lifting it and she
was taking big sassy steps off of the board to show she was not
fooled in the least. On her third turn we lifted the
board dang near over our heads and she said she was sure it was fake
all sassy and sure. She took her defiant long step off and, as the law of
gravity would have it, plummeted face first onto the ground.
Hilarious. I think the occasional switch is what makes the bait and
switch fun for everyone because the next time she was on the board
she was really worried that it was an actual precipice. Is it fake, is
it real? No one knows for sure, jump on and lets find out together. In the sports world that is called 'Keeping Them Honest'. My brother told me recently that he used the same technique on a
kid in high school who was being overconfident about knowing it was fake
to the same hilarious plummeting end. I have always said great comedy
starts in the home.
