Spider bait

My daughter is deathly afraid of spiders. Our shed is full of spiders and every time she needs to go there, she has difficulty. In our mission not to raise a clueless girl, we encourage her to go in there and be brave. This morning, she absolutely refused to go in there alone. My advice was to send one of the dogs in first to act as bait, so when the spiders attack the dog (yeah right) she can grab the pooper scooper and make it out alive. Her response to me was, "Sure dad, like that will work." The next thing I heard was the girl saying, "Lucky, come here boy."

Lawnmower boy, part two

Lawnmower boy strikes again. I asked him to mow the lawn after dinner. While going upstairs, I saw a green blur fly past the window - Lawnmower boy! He was cutting the grass at mach 6. I heard a sonic boom after he passed the window. I ran outside to slow the boy down before small animals were maimed, but I couldn't catch him.

At about the same time, his mother realized this was happening and was bellowing at him from a second story window, but alas the roar of the engine and the wind whistling in his ears were too loud. I finally caught him rounding the corner of the house and he skidded to a stop. After I informed him that he was going too fast, he slowed the tractor down one notch. I had to be the fun governor and put the transmission on 3, rather than 8 where he had it (the highest setting). I think he left skid marks on the lawn. The wife laughed for 20 minutes.