OPERATION CLOSET: GI Joe’s Last Crusade
Posted By AmyD. on February 10, 2006
“Ethan, I bought these totes for you to put special stuff in that you don’t necessarily want in your new room, but you don’t want to throw away either. ”
“Ok, like what?”
“Well, like that teddy bear that you got when you were 2 and I guess your GI Joes, those are kinda special to guys aren’t they?”
“Sure. One of the Joes is a mummy now (from a 6th grade project) and the other one… ”
“What about the other one?”
“You cut his head off.”
“I cut his head off!?!??!”
“Remember that time you were getting laundry and you said you couldn’t close my closet door?” Ethan walked over to his closet door to imitate me, frustrated, trying to close his closet door, multiple times. “Remember?”
“Uh, sure.”
“After you left, I opened up the door and Joe’s head rolled out.”
Me: *blink. blink. blink.*
“Yeah, I now refer to it as, OPERATION CLOSET: Joe’s Last Crusade.”
Me: *blink. blink. blink.*
“Uh.. maybe you can keep his boots or dogtags or something… you know as a reminder.” (Yes, this was lame… but what do you say to a boy who’s Joe wasn’t exactly killed in the line of duty?)
“Riiiiiight.”
“Well, I guess Barbie finally got her revenge. I’ll have to tell Kate.”
Of course, Barbie had already exacted her revenge 4 years ago. After a particularly rough “date” with Joe where Ken ended up being held hostage and later… well, he didn’t make it. Someone (and I won’t say who the guilty party was) snuck into Ethan’s room, dressed the Joes in Barbie’s finest ball gowns and…
MADE THEM HAVE A TEA PARTY.
Ethan came home from spending the night at a friend’s house to the Joe’s demonstrating the proper way to take tea… with their little pinkies in the air.
That was the scream heard ’round the world.
Sure wish I had pictures.
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LMAO! That is hilarious Amy! The things that happen to G.I. Joes and Barbies. I may post a photo of what riley did to one of his G I Joes. One always has to be the bad guy, the pretend, evil one. I found G.I. Joe, with a spike thru his forhead and hanging by his neck off of his cork board. It wasn’t pretty.
3T
3t LOL sounds like the fate of Ken… unfortunately, the Joes decided he was too much of a fancy lad and I’m afraid his parachute didn’t open properly when he was “encouraged” to jump off the tree fort.
Let us have a moment of silence to remember a fallen hero, who gave his life in bravery
Crazy Lady *silent pause*
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*snicker* *snicker*
I think I hear the Barbies throwing a party in the other room…
LOL!! My husband and I had the best laugh of the day on this one!! That’s some pretty sweet revenge!
lol! I’d love to see pictures of that. My sister and I always cut Barbie’s hair. My brother didn’t play with GI Joe. He preferred Purple Pieman. LMAO.
Miss Lady Ma’am Thanks! My mom keeps telling me that I have “tons” of material with these kids to write some really hilarious stories… maybe I will sometime.
KentuckyGirl I never cut my Barbie’s hair… and I have no idea why I didn’t because right now it seems like an excellent idea!
Although, Ethan scalped on of Kate’s Barbies one time… she still complains about that.
And, what exactly is a Purple Pieman?
Oh my, Amy! That was so cute AND funny! Hee. My Barbie was kind of, um, loose. She gave it up to GI Joe. If I told my brother he would’ve DIED.
Yay! I’m your renter!
Zube Oh no! The Barbies in this house are prim and proper. My daughter is a junior Martha Stewart and she gets really pissed if her Barbies are man-handled or abused in anyway…
You should have seen her when “Rocker Barbie” was scalped during some sort of Joe-related incident. I’m thinking Joe figured since Rocker Barbie had purple hair, pleather pants, and a tube top that loved to slip down – she was a sure thing. Turns out… not so much and worse yet, her owner has a nasty temper!