Light Notes
Lessons Learned From Boys
1. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42-pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape.
2. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.
3. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on.
4. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit.
5. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
6. The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
7. When you hear the toilet flush and the words “uh oh”, it’s already too late.
8. Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.
9. No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can’t walk on water.
10. Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
11. Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
12. Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
13. The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time.
14. The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.
15. It will, however, make cats dizzy.
16. Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
