Brother Broken
Alf Reads about playing pranks...
about playing pranks . . .
For some of us, the telephone switchboard fed an impish itch
for fun. I followed John’s lead as we indulged ourselves playing pranks on
other kids. One of our strategies was to have a kid place the telephone plug in
his mouth. He or she usually required some convincing to do it.
“Just put the plug on your tongue.”
We were gifted at crafting reasons why a plug to the tongue
was a good thing.
“It’s fun,” we’d say.
Sometimes, we had to persuade by demonstration, so we’d show
them by illustrating with a mouth full of plug.
“See? Wike yiss.”
It took some doing, but we eventually persuaded one
wide-eyed patsy to try. He opened his mouth as though to receive a communion
wafer, and we dropped in the plug. Timing was key, and before he got a chance
to change his mind, one of us worked the hand crank.
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