A friend of mine was telling me that she was getting some pigs for her boys to raise in 4H this year. I couldn't help but think of a joke my older sister played on my brother when she was a senior.
Coming from a very hot climate, our Fair took place at the end of February. So, our pigs were delivered to us in November. When Shannon got her pig I was twelve. A few months later it was New Year's Eve and I was babysitting while my parents, Shannon and Darren (my older brother) went out for the night. Everything was going well and we were watching TV (Dick Clark at Time Square) when Shannon and three of her friends came walking in the house laughing hysterically! We didn't think anything of it but when they left and came back in with her pig we were shocked! "What are you doing with that?: "Are you going to leave it here?" The four of them each had a leg and were running straight for Darren's room. (Growing up with Shannon was like living with the girl from "Cheaper By The Dozen" who master minds all the practical jokes.) They laid newspaper out and left. The pig was in the house and I was babysitting! At first I was a little worried but, then I looked at Stacy (my younger sister) and we just started cracking up! You see, Darren had teased us enough in our short lives that we felt that this would be some kind of a payback, even if it was just witnessing it. As the New Year arrived and the celebrations and fireworks grew louder, so did our visitor. We started to hear things falling, things being moved around and loud snorts. We didn't dare open the door. Then......he came......Darren was home. We didn't mutter a word. We waited for his reaction..... Without saying a word or having an expression on his face, he went down the hall, opened his door, closed the door and walked out of the house. Shannon and her friends were in hysterics. Stacy and I had to wait until Darren was out of site before joining them because of retaliation. I don't think Darren came home that night. Well, we were anxious to see what the room looked like so to the room we went. A whole knew meaning to the phrase, "your room looks like a pigsty" came to mind. Lets just say that the newspaper did not help in any way. And, even though my sister and her friends had to clean everything up and take the pig out, they never stopped laughing! They didn't care, it was all worth it! I don't think that Darren has laughed about it YET! Who knows, maybe this time!
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How in the world did they get that pig inside? When we were doing 4-h and had to weigh them, they would just screech and wiggle so as not to get caught. What a funny prank!
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