RE: [ihc] My daughter's project was a darn horse, but then there was ....

["John M. Adams" <jma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ihc@domain.elided [mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
> John Hofstetter
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 3:40 PM
> To: Jim Grammer
> Cc: ihc@domain.elided
> Subject: [ihc] My daughter's project was a darn horse, but then there
> was ....

...

> He would take the screws out of the door hinges, the knobs off the
> cupboards, the back off the television, and on and on. We kept getting
> phone calls from people who had visited us asking if we had noticed
> their gas caps anywhere around our place, but we never did. Years later
> when I tore down an old out building I found a cache of about 30 gas
> caps that had been deposited between the walls by dumping them into a
> big knot hole in the inner wall.

...

John, that's gotta be one of the funniest little kid stories I've heard.
That beats "crayon murals on under-bed wall", and "self-inflicted haircut",
and "16 oz. of baby powder to doll's bottom (and entire house)", and all the
other stories I can think of, even the classic "painting the sleeping dad
with poop". I'm still laughing at "gas caps gone missing - found in wall".

Man, you really had your hands full... Thanks for sharing; I'm still
chuckling.

John A.