[Welsh Rabbit]

One of these days I'm afraid my mom will appear on the Antiques Roadshow with the Japanese tea set my grandpa brought back from the war. It is then the appraiser will informer her that the server was broke in half (by me when I was fourteen) and glued back together at some point. Could have easily fetched over $5000, but now only $30....

[knittnmom]

Chances are, she already knows that someone broke it, has her suspicions as to whom, and is waiting for the perpetrator to 'fess up. (My folks are like that - now that we're all in our 30s and 40s, we've started fessing up!)

[Androcles]

And after being told she nods quietly, goes upstairs and returns witht the sword he brought back...at this point she begins chasing you round the house to eact a much-delayed punishment!

[MarineBrat]

We do the same thing now. All the kids are in our 40's and 50's, and the statute of limitations has run out on all of that stuff, so it's fun when we get together to sit around and fess up to Mom.

My sister, now pushing 50, had a great one last time...

"Remember that little bird we had in the cage in the livingroom... the one that died? It didn't really "just" die. I opened the door and put my hand inside and tried to make it get on my finger. It flew around and around the cage and I kept chasing it around and around trying to make it get on my finger, and then it stopped moving and just laid there. So I closed the door and pretended I didn't know anything about it."

Yes, my sister is a bird killer!