Bad Daddy

It was supposed to be a practical joke, but it certainly didn’t turn out to be very funny at the time. And Kyle’s reaction left me feeling terrible.

There were several mannequin faces needing to be washed after the CPR class I had jus’ taught a couple of hours before. So I filled up the bathtub, added some bleach, prepared the latex faces to soak.

To understand how this all started I have to explain that when I sneeze – I sneeze very hard.  I used to tell Kyle that one day my face would fall off after sneezing so hard.

Anyway, I had one of the mannequin faces in my hand as Kyle stood behind me, curious as to what I was doing. That’s when I decided to fake a sneeze.

As I did, I half-tossed, half-dropped the latex face on the floor. I had my hands covering my face and I cried out, “I sneezed my face-off!”

Kyle’s eyes popped open wide and he screamed. As he did this, he also turned and took off running for the front room.

It took me at least 15-minutes to convince him that it was jus’ a rubber face from a CPR dummy and not really my face. He told me he didn’t want to see me without my skin, so he kept his eyes covered during that time.

Later, he would scold me, “Bad Daddy!”