The other day Richard digging in his cupboards unearthed a mask that we used in a fancy dress management party a few years back.  It is a pretty tame mask really but when you aren’t expecting to see it on someone it does take you by suprize.  So Richard prancing around the house creeping up on people and scaring them seemed pretty funny from his perspective until. . . .

He took a look at himslef in the mirror with the mask on.  A couple of short deep breaths and then screamed and ran into the bedroom in hysterics. Several minutes of cudling and soothing brought his breath back but still sobbing some 10 minutes later.  Mum asked him, “why were you scared, you put it on?” He replied “but I didn’t see it on me so I wasn’t scared.”

Now he knows better not to scare people!

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