The boy sits in stunned silence, in total awe of his favourite team being so close.
In an earlier post, I outlined my evil plan of deliberately misleading my own son into thinking he was going to hockey practice, when, in fact, he was heading to the Flames game. My plan went off without a hitch. However, at first, I was afraid I did some permanent damage.
During our ride to the LRT station, we did the usual pre-practice ritual: we blasted the rock tunes, the boy would sit in the back and get amped up for the upcoming skate, we would talk about the team, and the other usual stuff. I then pulled up to the train station and parked. I sensed confusion in the back seat. "Why are we stopped?" the kid asked. I then rolled out my prepared confession.
"I did a bad thing, I lied to you." I said with my best look of profound sadness, acting not being my strong suit.
"Why did you lie?" the boy now looks completely bewildered. Poor kid.
"We're not going to practice."
"Where are we going?" he asks.
"You'll need to put this on." I then handed a shopping bag over to him. In it was his Flames jersey from home. He opened it and didn't immediately put it all together. It did not quite compute. I couldn't contain myself any longer.
"We're going to the Flames game right now."
He then gave a reserved smile, which I wasn't expecting. But then it ocurred to me that I probably shocked the poor kid. By the time he whipped on his jersey and put his jacket back on, the excitement had kicked in.
So, we went a little early so he could watch the warm-up. We saw Jarome Iginla take time out from his warm-up to toss a puck up over the glass to some onlooking kids. But during the warm-up, Ryan was as wide-eyed as I've ever seen him. He just sat there soaking it all in.
However, when the puck dropped, he got himself into "fan mode" and cheered his little guts out. It was a real bonus being 5 rows up from the ice.
I'm pretty sure this is one prank he won't be forgetting anytime soon.
Oh yeah. We won 5-4 on a shoot-out. The fans went ballistic when Iginla potted the winner.
Maybe when he's 30, he'll prank me with a BMW in my driveway? Hmmm.....
2 comments:
Well congrats on the prank success! I can see why he would be a little shell shocked, it would be overwhelming to have an emotion change for an adult let alone an 8 year old.
Oh and as for the driveway prank in later years, be sure to look under the wrapper, it could be a kCar in disguise!
For how he cheered, the Flames should give him complementary season tickets in section 101. He cheered his little lungs out.
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