I read in a book once that “you can never keep secrets in a house where there are children.” The fact is, kids pay attention to everything we do and say. Unfortunately, some parents tend to forget that occasionally. We get to thinking our children are caught up in their own little worlds and not noticing us, but we’re wrong. Even if they’re ignoring us, their little eyes and ears are alert to anything interesting that’s going on. So if you think you can have an affair right under your kids’ noses, just keep in mind that they may actually be the first to know. A savvy kiddo isn’t immune to a bit of blackmail from time to time, either, as the woman’s lover in the joke below quickly found out. We think this man got exactly what he deserved.
A woman is having an affair during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year-old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them, and hides in the bedroom closet to watch. The woman’s husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already.
The little boy says, “It’s dark in here.”
The man says, “Yes, it is.”
Boy ~ “I have a baseball.”
Man ~ “That’s nice.”
Boy ~ “Want to buy it?”
Man ~ “No, thanks.”
Boy ~ “My dad’s outside.”
Man ~ “OK, how much?”
Boy ~ “$250?
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together.
Boy ~ “It’s dark in here.”
Man ~ “Yes, it is.”
Boy ~ “I have a baseball glove.”
The lover remembering the last time, asks the boy, “How much?”
Boy ~ “$750?
Man ~ “Fine.”
A few days later, the father says to the boy, “Grab your glove, let’s go outside and have a game of catch.”
The boy says, “I can’t, I sold my baseball and my glove.”
The father asks, “How much did you sell them for?”
Boy ~ “$1,000?
The father says, “That’s terrible to overcharge your friends like that… that is way more than those two things cost. I’m going to take you to church and make you confess.”
They go to the church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door.
The boy says, “Dark in here.”
The priest says, “Don’t start that crap again.”
