Today, my 9 year-old managed to break the padlock on my display cabinet, take out my entire sword collection, run to the garden making lightsaber noises, and bash them on trees and a stone wall. They are ruined. One of them has a crack that has damn near snapped it in two. I want to weep. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my dad said I need to stop playing with toys and threw my lightsaber out of the window. It was a replica of the Lightsaber used by Mark Hamill, made from the same type handle from a 1970s camera, just like the film prop. It was over 40 years-old and worth thousands. Not anymore, as it's now scratched and in two pieces. FML
Today, my dad bought a one hundred dollar collectible light-saber. He plays with it. In the front yard. With sound effects. FML
Today, after far too many times of my brother stealing food out of my own personal mini fridge, I bought a lock and chained the handles together. I came back to find that my brother had responded by breaking the doors off their hinges. FML
Today, after my husband bought our son a sword for Xmas, sure enough, I found a stab mark in my living room wallpaper, and the sword now has a bent tip. My son denies everything and my husband claims I’m overreacting by yelling. FML
Today, our 9 year-old son managed to shoot himself in the gut with my nail gun. According to my wife, this is completely my fault, because I ONLY kept it in my locked garage, ONLY secured in its box, ONLY completely disconnected from the power, ONLY on the highest shelf near the roof. FML
Today, I was babysitting my younger brother while my parents were away. I turned my back on my brother for one minute and then I heard a huge crash from their room. He had somehow destroyed a family heirloom and 200 year-old clock. FML
Today, I found my son's iPod touch and was looking at a light-saber app. He walked into the living room to see me fighting the cat and making sound effects to myself. FML
Today, I attempted to show off my juggling skills at a family gathering using oranges. One slipped out of my hand, hit a shelf, and knocked over a picture of my parents. The glass frame shattered, and now my family thinks I have a vendetta against their marriage. FML
Today, I locked myself out and had to enter my house via the back door. Thinking I was an intruder, my 7-year-old daughter slammed a metal rake into the back of my head. Nice to know she can take care of herself. FML
Today, as revenge for being grounded for bullying a kid at school, my eight-year-old son flung a handful of Lego into my path as I walked barefoot into the kitchen. I'm still in pain. FML
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Brightside86 31
What kind of pathetic padlock could a 9 year old break? Even if they had bolt cutters I doubt they could get through a cheap one.
cuz803 46
When he gets older, get a lightsaber and challenge him to a dual. Make Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader reality as payback.
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cuz803 46
When he gets older, get a lightsaber and challenge him to a dual. Make Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader reality as payback.
Justkidding100 41
at least he's not hurt, I trashed plenty of my dad's things too. sorry that's how it goes sometimes
Brightside86 31
What kind of pathetic padlock could a 9 year old break? Even if they had bolt cutters I doubt they could get through a cheap one.
Mycroftsgirl 1
The point is not the maybe flimsy padlock but that a nine year old is old enough to know a lock means he isn’t meant to touch things. And going for total ruination is also nowhere near ‘but daddy, I wanted to play’
JackWood 21
If you would have gotten him a light saber before this would never have happened.
Hangryko 32
YDI for getting a cheap padlock in a pathetic attempt to keep deadly weapons away from your child. You're damn lucky one of those swords didn't cut your kid in two. Why aren't you weeping about that?
catalysty 23
hey man that sucks, but why was a 9 yo left unsupervised long enough to accomplish that?
historygrad74 19
I'm laughing because you have kids!
1known 34
Maybe you might reconsider how you raise your child. Maybe.
Taurus_ChicKa 37
What kind of lock can a 9-year-old break? And why was he not taught that something locked means to stay out of it? Or maybe he was and he's one of those kids that doesn't do what he's told. But the biggest question - are these real swords? The fact that they're locked up implies so. You're lucky the kid didn't get hurt handling those weapons. Jesus...