My Favorite Childhood Story. A Warning to Parents Everywhere.

When I was about 7 years old, my dad took me to Valleyfair for the first time. I was 48" right on the nose. That's how tall all of their candy-cane poles are that measure if a kid is tall enough to ride the adult rides. I walked around the park and everything I saw I thought I should have. In fact, I'm pretty sure my favorite sentence that day was, "I should have that." I didn't have much of a sense of humor and I talked like an adult at a young age. It was weird. Needless to say, my dad didn't buy me everything and I wasn't happy about it. I decided I wanted to go on the giant water slides, so my dad got me a pass to the water park. Once I got to the top of the slide, I decided I couldn't go. I was scared. However, I had already been such a brat that day that my dad was too sick of it to put up with my crap. He pushed me down the slide. I remember getting to the bottom and my suit gave me a massive wedgie, I swallowed the nasty chlorine water and started to cry. We were enemies from that point on. My brattiness kicked up a few notches. As the day went on, I complained about EVERYTHING. I went on the High Roller roller coaster with my dad and cried again because I felt like I was going to fly out of the thing. My fear took my brattiness up another notch. At this point I'm sure I was pretty intolerable. On our way out of the park, I got a green light up visor. I had been asking for it all day, but once it was mine I wasn't thrilled with it. I'm not quite sure what I said that pushed my dad over the edge, but he took me to a corner by the restrooms and gave me a spanking. It was nothing major, but from a young age I figured out that two could play at the game of being mean. I got loose of him and ran to the middle of the entry way. He chased after me. That's when I yelled "Somebody help me! I don't know this man!"

Can you believe it??? I guess in 1987, they didn't take kidnapping as serious, because he caught up with me and dragged me to the car. Or maybe nobody cared because I have always been his female twin... I look just like him. This story is so hilarious as an adult, but I can only imagine what a spectacle we were to everyone. I take great pride in the fact that I had such an amazing an devious mind at such a young age. (lol) So parents, beware, if your child is smart enough and resourceful-- they can throw you under the bus big time! ;)