i'm awesome...and scary, all in one

we have video cameras on our house.  some people think this is weird...a little excessive, maybe, but whatever, we have them.  they are for safety, but apparently, today, they were also for fun!

it snowed here today...we have maybe 6" or so,  but enough for all the neighborhood kids to come over and try to gouge us out of money to shovel our walkways.  t had already turned some people down, he was going to do it later.  So, after a while, he stopped answering the door when they rang the bell. 

one particular group came and stayed for a while.  after they had knocked for a second time, he came in the bedroom, and turned on the video cameras to show up on the TV.  there were three little kids out there, all bundled up with their shovels in hand.  awwww, how cute! 

they stayed there for a LONG time though.  then, one of them started walking off and I said something to the effect of, "oh no they are not going to....." i don't know really what followed that other than i started getting out of bed, and running towards the front door to see that yes, indeed, the sweeties had thrown snow on our door, because apparently they are entitled to make money from us and we were the assholes that weren't home.  i opened the door and the look on their faces were priceless.  i yelled, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GET BACK HERE!"  i think one of the kids may have peed just then. 

i proceeded to tell them that we were watching them the whole time on video and that we can turn that into the police and who did they think they were, blah, blah, blah.  t decided that i had had enough fun and that he needed to come mediate and just the look of him scared them all over again. 

i asked them their addresses and for some reason, they all got collective amnesia and also couldn't speak. 

it was all pretty funny. 

merry christmas.