The Nerf War

 I had forgot i used to write, pretty stupid stuff, thank god i have kept most of them in draft. I think this is a good opportunity to get back to this fun. I have had lot of content over these years. The older posts are basically when i was a bachelor and well did all sorts of weird things. Now I am married and have a kid and still do all sort of weird things. My wife is pretty amused how she fell for me, but as they say love is blind. 

I have a kid pretty smart rather over smart he is, well if i think a bit kids today are way smarter than what we used to be. When I was 5 probably i was just running around naked and eating mud, well my kid can operate a laptop, talk to Alexa, has favorites on YouTube, can sing/learn a whole poem/story and also runs around naked when he feels like. 

Today being a weekend, we were playing Nerf wars. My wife has totally adjusted to this life style she also plays with us and well beats us as well. Women they master everything if they will (ahem!). I am far from a ideal husband, my wife can write an entire book on it. So well back to the topic, me and my son were playing Nerf wars, after a brief discussion we decided on playing same team and hitting objects, a robo figure, an elephant, a deer, a cup. Yes totally picked up with caution, Nah !! it was just lying under the table where my kid left last night. 

The Rules, we place the targets on distant table and hit it with 10 bullets from each of our Nerf. All the targets should be destroyed to go to next level (adding more targets), and we took an oath that we will be true to the task and not cheat, because god is watching. Well we do cheat while eating or getting to watch extra minutes on youtube/xbox etc, but here we were firm and it was a boy promise not to break the trust on this boy code. It is a thing an unwritten set of rules which you just know.

So yeah we started the game, and trying to hit the target like mad. It did not work we failed some attempts. My kid said papa this is not working. I said what?? we are having fun, just hit those non-living things we will be triumphant sometime. Lets do next round, he said stop lets make a strategy.  I just skipped a beat i think. I stared at him, what how do you even know such a thing needs to be done at an age of 5. He said let us divide the effort. He decided, I was to take care of robo and deer, and he will take care of elephant and cup. Not only this he said once either of us finish their task don't sit ideal, just help the other one to finish his. 

Boy this is really going out of hands, I know this is fun and all but how many times have we adults done such clear thinking and also put in a sense to others involved. Our generation is dumb founded, because our parents have stories of hardship they faced and still managed to get themselves educated and all, our kids will have a different childhood story altogether. I solved an important problem for my dad when i was 5.

Well we got to the game, we still failed because the effing elephant bit heavy to be thrown out by the nerf bullets. We winked to the ceiling and  elevated the elephant on a bottle so that it will fall off on a perfect hit. No! before you think my kid came up with this idea, nope I decided it. After all these 35 years are not wasted altogether, I can still teach my kid to cheat smartly.