Last night I received an email from my brother, who has two boys, ages nine and eleven. The email was to me and to my other brother, who has four kids of his own. It read:
We partially cleaned the boys’ room tonight. I found the pictured item under their bed. Neither of them will confess to making a custom-made boys size 16 Fruit of the Loom thong. I wondered if one of your kids wanted to confess.
It was accompanied by the following pictures:
After Bobby and I laughed so hard that Joshua came into the room concerned for our well-being, I picked up the phone to talk to my brother and help him solve this mystery. His kids love Star Wars, so to protect their identities, we’ll call them Luke Skywalker (age 9) and Han Solo (age 11).
Me: Dude, what is THAT about?
Bro: I have no idea.
Me: Anyone confessed yet?
Bro: They both swear up and down they didn’t do it. But it HAD to be Luke Skywalker.
After cracking up a bit more, we hung up. Then later in evening, I got this email:
Luke Skywalker confessed. He said he was playing a joke on Han Solo. He thought, “It would be funny.” (He was right!) Han Solo said he threw them under the bed because he thought Luke Skywalker might get in trouble.
Here’s my question: Did Luke Skywalker just think Han Solo wasn’t going to notice that his Fruit of the Looms now consisted of only three thin straps of scrappy fabric and just put them on? ‘Cause dude, eleven-year-old boys can be clueless, but I don’t think those not-so-tighty-whiteys can get by anyone!
Oh and by the way, the email also said that as soon as Luke Skywalker confessed, he asked, “Do you think this will be on Aunt Jenny’s blog?”
Does Yoda have hairy ears, kid??
