My friend Beckie has been staying with me for the last few weeks along with her daughter Victoria. Many mornings Victoria has run into my room and jumped into bed with me to give me a very welcome morning hug. Well yesterday she shame-facedly walked into my room covered in duct tape. She had a few long pieces covering her back, one wrapped completely around her arm and a patch of it on the opposite shoulder. I asked her who did it and she quickly pointed out my 7 year old niece Ashley as the perpetrator. I was fuming. I knew it was going to be so painful to get the duct tape off of this little little 3 year old. I stormed down the stairs, hunting for my niece. While coming down I noticed my sister was fast asleep on the couch suffering from a severe case of the Irish Flu neglecting her duties of child supervisor.
I should explain that my niece is a kind soul who would never intentionally cause harm to anyone especially a child younger than her so I was very surprised when I saw Victoria. The more my brain woke up I realized she covered Victoria in silver bandages having no idea what it felt like to rip duct tape off. When I found Ashley hiding in the downstaris bathroom (she could hear me yelling for her) I saw that my thoughts were confirmed. Ashley hadn’t acted maliciously to cause any pain to the poor little toddler standing beside me. Ashley was covered in duct tape too, positioned in the exact same places as Victoria. Then I tought, “Ugh, it never ends.”
Luckily for these kids I knew a trick. Adhesives does’t stick to oil, so I greased up the tape as I took it off. Just as I was finishing up taking it off of Victoria I asked her if there was anymore anywhere and she gave me a sheepish “no”. Then she pulled down her pants to reveal the last piece warpped completely around her leg. It too removed without incident. After I was all done with Victoria I took the tape off of Ashley. Unfortunately my niece was cursed with my pain tolerance and suffered the most having the tape reoved. The oil helped some, but they both sure still felt the pain of having a duct-tape-ectomy.
