"Kimber, what's that red button for?"
"What red button?"
"The one on the side of your house."
"Oh. That's my naughty trap."
"What's a naughty trap?"
"Well… if you push the red button, poison darts fire out of those little holes right there, and they stick in your skin and paralyze you so you can't move until the naughty police can come."
"What if the police don't come?"
"Then you die a slow and painful death and the sparrows eat your eyes out."
Sometimes I tell them it's a release button for man eating tigers or the trigger for an atomic bomb that will blow up the entire city. Depends on the age group.
But they always push it. They stand there, thinking about it for a while–but they always push it.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Even when they might blow up Mom and Dad and everyone they know.
July 30th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
Exactly! Maybe I'm not very convincing…I do try, however.
July 31st, 2010 at 9:08 am
I would probably push the red button too. I was always defiant. lol
August 3rd, 2010 at 8:23 pm
okay- in my mind I have pushed the button a bunch and the only thing I can think is that it is a sewer flush-like thingy.
WHAT DOES THE RED BUTTON DO?
(If you don't answer I might come up there and hi-jack another broom.. )
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Ha! It turns off the sewer alarm, which goes off, if you flush more…water…than your septic system can handle. So I don't really think it hurts anything if they push it.