He Scared His 9-Year-Old Son One Night With A Halloween Mask, Making Him Cry For A Long Time, And His Wife Has Been Mad At Him Ever Since
One week ago, this 37-year-old man and his 10-year-old daughter were having a movie night. His 34-year-old wife was working super late that evening, and his 9-year-old son was out with one of his friends.
At 8 p.m., the mom of his son’s friend sent him a text saying she was going to drive him back home.
He said thank you to her and then informed his daughter that his son was about to be back. His daughter then mentioned that they should pull a prank on him.
His daughter specifically suggested that they scare him by jumping out from a hidden spot, and he thought it would be hilarious.
He and his daughter grabbed some Halloween masks that were pretty scary, and they shut the lights off before picking a hiding spot behind their couch.
He sent another text to the mom of his son’s friend, saying that he was watching a movie in their family room and to tell his son to come down there as soon as he got back to the house.
I then texted his friend’s mom and told her that his sister and I were watching a movie and to send him to the Family Room downstairs when he got home.
He heard his son arrive home and then walk down their stairs into the family room. As soon as his son got close enough to the hiding spot, he and his daughter leaped out from behind the couch and screamed.
“Now; here’s where I fully admit I messed up,” he explained. “I thought he’d just be startled for a second and then would laugh with us over the prank.”
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“But that’s not what happened. We ended up frightening him WAY more than I’d anticipated. He first started running off and then ended up having a HUGE, trembling, crying, adrenaline dump for a long time. I felt really bad, and so did his sister.”
“His mother came home not long after and ended up sitting with him, hugging and comforting him. Naturally, she wasn’t amused by my antics which I understand because–again–I (messed) up.”
It has been a week since the prank, and his wife has been angry at him ever since. His wife is so angry, in fact, that she doesn’t really want to speak to him.
He finally confronted his wife and insisted she “needed to get over it.” He knows he did make a massive mistake, thinking it was a good idea to pull a prank on his son, but he was not trying to hurt him in any way.
He just couldn’t believe how upset his son was after the prank, and he didn’t anticipate that his son would react in that way.
“I also think that our daughter is seeing how she is treating me over it and is being made to feel way too bad over her idea that was just playful; not bad-natured,” he said.
“But she just says that I “should have known better” and won’t seem to forgive me. I get it; she’s always been a complete mama bear. But it’s not as if I don’t love our kids, too. Was my prank honestly so beyond that pale that I deserve to keep being punished over it?”
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