{"id":4136,"date":"2015-02-12T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2015-02-12T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T18:10:24","slug":"falling-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4136","title":{"rendered":"Falling Flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026This is an open letter to the person or persons who have\u00a0the Prank Camera trained on me while Hubby is out of town\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dear Sir or Sirs,<\/p>\n<p>I have been aware of your existence for a while.\u00a0 Seems like every time Hubby is out of town, something totally crappy happens.\u00a0 This could only be the result of you causing the awfulness, then monitoring me for my reaction via your hidden cameras so as to get outstanding YouTube footage.\u00a0 This is a completely natural assumption on my part.<\/p>\n<p>And while this has all been absa-frickin-lutely hilarious; can we be done now?<\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, the ol\u2019 flat tire hijinks from this morning.\u00a0 At first glance, there\u2019s nothing funnier than coming out of the house with the massive backpacks and the\u00a0kids belonging to same\u00a0only to find the back right tire on the car is completely\u00a0flat.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 Funnier.<\/p>\n<p>But what you weren\u2019t privy to was the\u00a0ominous black pick\u2019emup truck randomly parked in front of our house all night long.\u00a0 When Sonny noticed it this morning, all frost covered, that naturally meant that the person who drove the truck was somehow now in our house, and had been all night long.\u00a0 So my comment as we were heading out the door about how, \u201cwe had better hurry up and leave before the man in our basement wakes up,\u201d already had everyone nervously tittering while anxiously glancing at each other in a Heavens-to-Betsy-I-hope-there\u2019s-not-really-a-man-sleeping-in-our-basement sort of way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unless YOU were the man in the pick\u2019emup, then in our basement??\u00a0 Could be.\u00a0 That seems just like something you would do to \u201camp up\u201d the fun factor so as to get even better footage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So we were already on edge even BEFORE the mad dash on the tire rim to get some temporary air so that we could then bust across town to school, hopping out at every stoplight to make sure the tire wasn\u2019t shredding as we went \u2013 hopping and hoping.<\/p>\n<p>Because, you see, it\u2019s annual nationwide testing time for the kids.\u00a0 And they can\u2019t be late to school, because if they are, they have to sit out the whole morning and then have to make up the testing some other time.\u00a0 And no one, NO ONE, has time for that nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>This entire scenario basically had us ALL chumming in our mouths from nerves by the time we got to school.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even IMAGINE what the kids&#8217;\u00a0scores are going to look like from today.\u00a0 Thanks a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Also?\u00a0 That whole \u201cscrew in the tire which coulda been repaired if a \u2018certain someone\u2019 hadn\u2019t driven on the rim??\u201d\u00a0 That was a nice touch.\u00a0 You owe me two hundred bucks.<\/p>\n<p>And as I&#8217;m posting this blog, I notice your truck is now gone.\u00a0 So it seems like you\u2019re getting the message that we\u2019re done.\u00a0 [insert Jersey Girl thumb-to-throat slitting motion here]\u00a0 DONE!<\/p>\n<p>You could have at least made the bed in the basement before you packed up your cameras and left, though.\u00a0 Rude much?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026This is an open letter to the person or persons who have\u00a0the Prank Camera trained on me while Hubby is out of town\u2026 Dear Sir or Sirs, I have been aware of your existence for a while.\u00a0 Seems like every time Hubby is out of town, something totally crappy happens.\u00a0 This could only be the 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