Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for December 21, 2021

It’s fun to bop someone over the head with anything!

Yesss!

They also make great cat toys.

They make a fine trumpet to blow in someone else’s ear, too.

In my house, we call them lightsabers.

christmas at auntie’s house rapidly goes down the tubes…

Aunty, hope Santa got you something despite your naughtiness!

I keep saying that we do not stop playing because we get old; we get old because we stop playing.

Don’t come to my house then. The wife always catches the sales on wrapping paper. Where ever she gets the good heavy stuff she buys has heavy duty cardboard tubes inside of them. The postal delivery weight tubes. Those things hurt when someone gets bonked.

Don’t bend over, Aunty!

And you can fantasize that it’s a baseball bat!

Alas, my bonking days are over.

Good to have when the grandkids come over to bonk with.

I don’t normally have anyone around when I’m wrapping presents, but when I go shopping with my little brother I always ask if they have a thump round the ear for him.

If you kill yourself horsing around like that, don’t come crying to me. My parents motto in the 60s.

At my house we call those “der-ders”. That’s the noise they make when you try to talk through them.