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So I was babysitting my nephew and trying to be the Cool Uncle. We were walking home after ice cream, and he noticed the moon was visible in the sky. He asked why it was "chasing" us.
Thinking I’d be clever, I said:
Big mistake.
He screamed. Not a cute giggle. A full-on horror movie shriek. He throws his ice cream, starts running like he's in a zombie movie, yelling "TELL IT TO STOP! TELL THE MOON TO STOP!!"
A neighbor came out and wrapped him in a blanket like he’d just witnessed a traumatic event. I'm trying to explain celestial mechanics to a crying toddler while three grown adults glare at me like I summoned the moon to haunt him.
Now he refuses to go outside at night unless he’s holding a mirror to “trick the moon into looking at itself.”
So yeah. TIFU.
TL;DR: Told my nephew the moon was following him as a joke. He freaked out, threw his ice cream, and now carries a mirror to "protect" himself from the moon.
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