Bye-bye hockey net

Now an empty driveway. The house is blessedly silent these last couple of days due to there being NO PUCKS slamming into the garage door. There are no shots being taken in front of the garage door because we longer have a hockey net.

A word to the wise…never leave a hockey net in front of the garage (even after warning the son to put it to the side of the driveway…even after warning husband that the net is there and once the garage door is opened it is in prime ‘running over’ range). Assurances were made by son and husband (don’t worry, Mom, I’ll move it in the morning…I’m too tired right now; and doesn’t matter…we won’t be moving the truck out of the garage tomorrow).

Tomorrow comes. I am in the shower when Michael decides he needs his skates sharpened down at the arena. You know Henry will do anything in the name of hockey...so he immediately grabs the skates to go get them sharpened. After Henry leaves (in his truck), Michael shockingly remembers about the net. After checking the driveway and down the street for the missing hockey net, Michael phones Henry. Henry, at this point, has driven almost a mile. He thought he ‘heard’ something behind him, but could not see anything unusual in any of his mirrors. The phone call from Michael changed all that.

I came out of the bathroom and Michael told me that Dad had dragged the net down the street. At first, I thought he was kidding (after all, I had told the two of them, right?). Then I thought that Henry might have dragged it a little down the block to teach son a lesson.

Nope. Net was dragged across town behind the truck with the “ROEFS” license plate (how embarrassing is that – ha-ha). Net is demolished. I am the only one laughing about it…and it seems I am the only one that is telling this story!

Of course, I will not show the boys today’s blog topic, as they might make me reconstruct another hockey net! Henry’s ‘honey-do’ list is being replaced this week by Michael’s ‘Dad’s gotta’ fix’ list.

Good thing Henry is getting over his cold and feeling much better. He should know by now that once he crosses one thing off the list, another one or two or three will appear. This will conveniently lead into tomorrow’s blog topic...