So after reading Jimmy's blog on Boost-partum depression (which my mother suffers from too) I got to thinking about some of the games we used to play with Boost.
One of them was that we told her she was a robot who came from a factory, and that she wasn't a real girl. We told her that that was the reason we called her "Boost" and not Melody, because a Boost is like a Barbie, Melody was just the name my parents gave her so people would think she was a real girl. I don't think she ever really believed us for long, but I do know that at least the very first time we told her the story she was balling.
Now before anyone jumps on Jimmy and I for making her cry, I would like to point out that Michelle and Joe had a similar thing with me when I was a kid. They told me that I was actually adopted from a poor family in Russia, but that my real parents had been doing better recently and were going to take me back soon to live with them in Russia. They even intimated that my parents were kind of happy to be rid of me, because I had never really been as good a son as they had hoped for.
Anyway, if I can get this to work, here is proof for "Melody" that she's actually only a robot. Pretty soon Jimmy and I are going to send her back to the factory for repair work. There's obviously something wrong with her obedience system...
One of them was that we told her she was a robot who came from a factory, and that she wasn't a real girl. We told her that that was the reason we called her "Boost" and not Melody, because a Boost is like a Barbie, Melody was just the name my parents gave her so people would think she was a real girl. I don't think she ever really believed us for long, but I do know that at least the very first time we told her the story she was balling.
Now before anyone jumps on Jimmy and I for making her cry, I would like to point out that Michelle and Joe had a similar thing with me when I was a kid. They told me that I was actually adopted from a poor family in Russia, but that my real parents had been doing better recently and were going to take me back soon to live with them in Russia. They even intimated that my parents were kind of happy to be rid of me, because I had never really been as good a son as they had hoped for.
Anyway, if I can get this to work, here is proof for "Melody" that she's actually only a robot. Pretty soon Jimmy and I are going to send her back to the factory for repair work. There's obviously something wrong with her obedience system...
MLOL!!!!!!!! Both the pic and story were histerical! I do feel for you though Mel. As I too was torchered and told stories to. They (all 5 of them) would tell me I was adopted and not really part of the family! Which of course brought me to tears. I guess in addition to all the other shared genes some of you share the severly tweaked gene (of course Mel and I would be excluded from that) is present to.
ReplyDeleteSee, most people come up with the "adopted" thing. That's what made my brothers more unique. No, I wasn't adopted, I was from a factory. A robot. From the Boosty Factory.
ReplyDeleteAnd John, remember that black kid that went to Upland Christian, Brandon something? You and Jim both decided you liked him, and that he was also a robot from the boosty factory. And yes, for many years I believed this.
we would "bag the boost" - where we would quite literally sneak up on her and throw a large comforter over her, bag her, and begin to carry her off, threatening to throw her into a delivery truck to be returned to the boosty factory for repairs....."this ones busted" we'd say...
ReplyDeleteThe thing I find most amazing is that she never ratted them out....you think she might mention she was from a factory...haha I was the one who told everyone that I was actually an Indian and my father was a chief and I had been kidnapped to live in this ordinary family. haha Oh and Donna, think back, I was the only one who woud tell you the truth, I couldn't keep it going....I hated to see you cry...
ReplyDeleteOK THIS ONE IBLAME DANAE FOR SHEUSE TO LOCKME IN THE BATHROOMANDFLASH ON AND OFF THE LIGHTS AND SAY SHE WAS FROM ANOTHER PLANET ADN THE REAL DANAE HAD BEEN ABDUCTED..... TWEAKED OF COUSRE AND YES OBVIOUSLY A FAMILY TRAIT THAT EVEN MOM WAS IN ON AS I CARRIED OVER TO MY FAMILY AND THE FIRST FAMILY TRIP TO SEA WORLD WE WERE BORED ON THE DRIVE THERE AND COOKED UP THE STORY THAT NATE WAS ADOPTED AND WE WERE REALLY ON THE WAY TO GO MEET HIS REAL FATHER (SICK AND TWISTED?) OF COARSE AND WE TOOK IT TO THE LIMITS TELLING HIM THAT HIS DAD ERICKY K RAMOS WAS THE WHALEW POOP PICKERUPPER INSIDE SHAMOOS CAGE MEENWHILE NATES BALLING MAYRA AND I A LAUGHING HESTERCLY AND TO TIE MOM INTO IT AFTER AT LEAST 30 MINUTES OF TORTURE HE WANTED TO CALL GRANDMA GRETA TO CONFIRM AND HE DID AND SHE TWISTED ENOUGH AGREED THAT HE WAS WHALE POOP PICKCERUPPERS SON....GOD YOU WANT TO TALK TWISTED I CAN BARELY TYPEFROM LAUGHING SO HARD JUST AT THE THOUGHT SO YES I FIT THE SICK AND TWISTED AS WELL(THOUGHT I DIDNT?) YES MEL FOR THE RECORD WE LITERALLY JUST HAD THIS GOING THE OTHER DAY IN FACT IT COMES UP QUITE OFTEN TO WHERE TABI WHO WAS TOO SMALL AT THE TIME TO REMEMBER HAS NOW KNOWLEDGE AND THE STORY LINE INHER MEMORY AND JOINS IN ON THE SICK AND TWISTED SO INLIGHT OF THE SENERIO I'D SAY SEND BOOST OFF TO BE REPAIRED SO THAT SHE WILL SUIT THE HUMANS AROUND HER
ReplyDeleteIt shouldn't be funny, but for some reason I find it hilarious that this is something the rest of us used to do as kids... and Dean still does it. Bringing full adult sensibilities to the table.
ReplyDeletePoor Nate, I can't believe mom would jump on that game....haha
ReplyDeleteOkay donna, i must expose you, as you too are just as twisted as the rest of us. when you used to babysit me and i was LITTLE, after mom left you would explain how you had this weird thing where you would turn into a monster if you didn't like the feel of something or i was irritating you, and then randomly, because i had somehow forced you into monster stage, you would begin to roll your eyes like a true possessed scary person, and snarling and growling and i would have to run and hide until the real donna came back. and yes, i was balling. and do not even get me started when you made me watch the shining with you, as a child, and you told me those really scary dead twin girls were upstairs in your closet. then you would go into a dead sleep and i would be up alone terrified.
ReplyDeleteby the way, i salute you dean for a truly demented story to torture nate with. that was hilarious.
Dean that was literally tweaked! Frighteningly, I found myself roaring on it.
ReplyDeleteDi, do you remember the "bull"?? haha To this day I remember the terror sooo well. She would pretend to be a bull and go into this snorting and roaring routine that for some reason terrified me...She could control things and get her way for years as she only had to say the word "bull" or flare one of her nostrils to snap me to control....haha
ReplyDeleteI am laughing so hard I don't know if I can even type! Min, I had forgotten about that, it was beyond tweaked of me! But, you have to admit it was hilarious. I remember part of the game being that if you came running to me and hugged me I would stop.. (a scary notion in itself, must of been starved for affection:( ) I will admit the shining movie thing was demented! I remember watching the movie with you, (just as a tip to this day one of my scariest) and making you go upstairs, but I don't remember saying the twin girls were up there, that was over the top!
ReplyDeleteI have another truly twisted story about my 5 brothers and sisters. The "game" was called Sword Man, Di would hold me down in a laying position on the couch, while David would remove the Sword Man from above the fireplace. Perhaps I should let you know what the sword man looked like, he was the chest and head part of coat of armour with two swords criss crossed through him, sorta like a code of arms. Anyway now that you have a visual, after David removed "him" he would get behind him like he was actually him and then walk towards me while the rest of them would chant a truly twisted song that was so over the top I have "blocked" it out! Where is Sword Man now? I think David has him, seems like his feel, LOL
ReplyDeleteDebbie is right she did reasure me on the adopted story!
ReplyDeleteI was not on the "sword man" game either just as a tip....haha I NEVER liked those kinds of games...either I was too wimpy or too much of a bleeding heart or something, or maybe I was too tramatized by the bull...lol I do remember them doing it though and I would just leave the room, which made me just as guilty as I look at it now, as I didn't stop them either, though I doubt I could have...haha
ReplyDeleteJust as a tip I think the whole "bag the boost" thing is why I have such crippling clausto to this day.
ReplyDeleteYou have clausto because you're half of your mother. Same reason I have it, and Jimmy has it.
ReplyDeleteBag the boost was hilarious.
And that sword man thing was absolutely hilarious. And I don't know that I buy that my mom wasn't on it. Sounds like a revisionist memory to me.
Mel, I am afraid you inherited the clausto thing along with a few others of my more fun type tendicies...haha sorry, would have spared you if I could have...John, I like this blog page much better...easier to see and the drawing is good...
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