26.2.08

I wish they were.

When I was about six, I tricked my cousin Victoria into thinking pokemon were real. Back when I lived in Georgia I had a playhouse in my backyard. The playhouse was there when we moved in, it looked like a toddler-sized Victorian style house, and it had a plaque on it dedicated to cancer stricken children from the McDonald's House Charity program. I used to think the second story was haunted by the departed souls of those cancer kids..

Anyway, when the first Pokemon movie came out, McDonald's was giving out giant pokeballs with limited edition cards inside. I planted my plastic pokeball somewhere in the playhouse before my cousin came for one of her usual weekend visits. When she arrived I led her to the backyard and told her of my "discovery" of a real pokeball. When I showed her the pokeball, her eyes lit up and suggested we open it. I could have revealed it was only a trick right then, but I decided to milk it a little longer. I told her if we opened it the pokemon would escape, and what would be the fun in that? So I put it on the playhouse mantle and told her to NEVER open it, EVER. And she never did.



EDIT: I recently spoke with said cousin, and apparently she had opened it when I wasn't around, but didn't tell me. DARN.

4 comments:

Miz Thip said...

LMAO ILU
I can't wait until I have children and Uncle Steele comes around..

Miz Thip said...

By adding the ".." to the end of that sentence it made it kind of creepy. Like I'm suggesting that Uncle Steele is going to molest my children or something, which you DEFINITELY WON'T. So I just wanted to get out that out.

Anonymous said...

That is the first I have ever heard of it. That is sweet and funny.
Can't wait to see you again. Waiting to cook you all your favorite foods.
Victoria's Mom

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