Brenden has a "friend" named Adam S. Adam was in Brenden's Kindergarten class when we moved to Utah half way through the year. Brenden started talking about Adam from the beginning and was anxious to be his friend. For some reason, Adam decided to exploit Brenden's obsession with monster trucks, and told Brenden his Dad was the driver of Monster Mutt - Brenden's favorite truck. He said he keeps it in his garage and other people aren't allowed to see it, but he drives it and goes to the shows and does tricks and everything. Brenden came home so excited and reported this news to us and Scott and I both tried to gently convince him that Adam was trying to trick him and this just wasn't true. We even looked it up online and showed him who the real driver is. But he was convinced and brought it up a lot and told many people about the kid in his class who's dad drove a real monster truck.I haven't heard any more about this in about a year so I thought the whole thing had dropped. But today (2 years later) Brenden and Oliver were watching one of their Monster Truck videos - I think it was the 2006 finals in Las Vegas. There was a move where Monster Mutt did a jump and a wheel broke off and Brenden says to Oliver, "That crash right there is why Adam S.'s dad stopped driving Monster Mutt."
Isn't it sad? Why is he so gullable? Why is Adam so mean as to keep it up all these years?
2 comments:
That is so mean! Why do kids do that? Is Adam insecure? Is he trying to impress Brenden rather than trick?
I love it! That is too funny. Go see if you can find the movie "Horse Crazy" for your boys. One of my dad's mission companion directed it. Anyhow, watch the first 30 minutes with them (that's all you'll be able to take) and you may get a glimpse into Adam's world.
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