Don’t Try This At Home
March 26, 2009
This is what happens when your 8yr old son decides to throw a golf ball at the front door. But why? WHY? You might be asking yourself.
Don’t even bother to ask why. There is no answer.
Then we all stood there and watched while the tempered glass slowly cracked and shattered. Well, not all of us. A certain 8yr old was banished to his bedroom. Partly as punishment. Partly for his own safety.
I’d really like a dull moment or two around here.
Posted by Chris @ 4:57 pm
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Makes you shake your head in wonder, doesn’t it?!
March 26th, 2009 at 5:29 pmOuch. Were they practicing for a gold tournament? I think that might just count as a hole in one.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:46 pm*golf* gold, tournament, dammit. That’s it. I need to stop posting when I notice my lack of sleep creeping up on me.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:47 pmMine did that with a baseball. But my door wasn’t near as pretty as yours.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:53 pmMy brother once threw a baseball at our minivan…our brand new minivan.
He, too, was probably around 8 at the time.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:54 pmOh no! Please don’t kill the eight year old; I’m rather fond of him.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pmYikes…things happen…once my cousin and i broke the neighbors basement window with a rock. she was mean and we weren’t supposed to be throwing rocks anyway. who threw the rock is still a mystery!!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pmMaybe you can blame it on the hail? We have a broken window from the storm. It’s not so far-fetched.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pmThis is why building codes require safety glass to be installed anywhere in or near a doorway. Because the world is full of 8 year old boys.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:25 pmWhen I was younger we had a window shatter like that. I’m not sure what caused it but since there was no hole in it. My father took a can of shellack (I think), spayed it and the same window still resides in my parents front door.
March 26th, 2009 at 6:25 pmoops!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:45 pmMy 8 year old stepson decided to use a tennis racket to hit rocks towards my husband’s car. My husband was very, very upset when a huge dent appeared on his roof. Hmmm.
Then, when my older stepson was 8, he hit golfballs towards my side window. We caught him because the golfball bounced off the edge of the window frame.
I think this is just a mystery. My daughter is turning 8 soon and the twins aren’t too far behind. I’m scared!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:48 pmwhy? Because he is 8 years old… go easy on him.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:01 pmOh no!!! But strangely enough, the broken glass is kind of beautiful, well that is if you didn’t have to replace it for mega$.
My son hung his magnetic dart board on the lock of a double hung window and proceeded to throw metal magnetic darts at it…. We still haven’t replaced that cracked window.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:03 pmtough to be a renter at this point in time…
March 26th, 2009 at 7:24 pmThere is no reason why. 8’s are 8. I love old bird’s comment. So true!
March 26th, 2009 at 7:25 pm…and you are a renter…have you told your landlord?
I am sorry. Very sorry. At least you are in the same house as your husband, and he can help to fix/discipline/tell the landlord….
Chris says: Not sure it matters if we are renting or not, either way we have to replace the glass. Have someone coming to do the work next week.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:26 pmTruly, with boys - sometimes there just is no explanation.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:34 pmI had to giggle, uncomfortably,, about the suggestion of blaming hail, as my windows were destroyed (big, huge - beautiful - VERY hard to replace windows) when we lived in SW Texas…
I am so not looking forward to that being my house in a couple of years.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:50 pmOh boys! Yep my oldest brother used to put baseballs through windows and try and say a bird flew threw it. Yeah really slick!
March 26th, 2009 at 8:02 pmThat is also what happens when you throw a Buzz Lightyear toy at a glass front door. So sorry…
March 26th, 2009 at 8:09 pmmy kids have never shot a BB thrugh my shed windows,
March 26th, 2009 at 8:52 pmit always seems to be my fault.
at least I can laugh about it!
heee heee
I chuckled when I saw this, as it reminded me of something similar. My son who is now 21, hit a golf ball and shattered a church glass door when he was 12. It wasn’t funny at the time and the pastor was furious
(It shattered in the same way your door did).
March 26th, 2009 at 9:31 pmMy 15-year old has grown out of my favorite t-shirt. The quote on it reads “It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
May I send it along to you?
March 26th, 2009 at 9:37 pmoooooo got to love them boys!
Hope you know a really good glass company. Too bad you did not live in the St. Louis area, I know a few that could fix that up in no time.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:38 pmI’m sorry, Chris, but I just have to remind you of your words from a few days ago … “Give me boys, outside in the yard, chasing each other with sticks ANYDAY.”
LOL …
Chris says:Yes, but note I did not say throwing golf balls at the house!
March 26th, 2009 at 9:47 pmYeah… mine winged a Thomas Engine at French door. Sigh. guess we’re not alone. Kinda nice to know misery has company - one of those “power of small” things that helps you get through the day.
Lisa
March 26th, 2009 at 9:53 pmwow
I have a sidelite that has been broken 3 times but at least it is clear glass.
damn
March 26th, 2009 at 10:41 pmI found my 2 yr old licking the sofa and then trying to figure out what animal shape her spit stain made. Does that make you feel any better? Sigh.
March 26th, 2009 at 11:37 pmIs that one big pane of glass? For this instance, it was good not to be living in an old house that might have real leaded glass in the door…
My dog once jumped through our back door window, trying to get at the paperboy. Boy was the paperboy surprised. I guess the dog was surprised too…
March 26th, 2009 at 11:46 pmI believe the ‘why’ is ‘because he wanted to see what would happen’…I have a nine year old who rather impuslively does very similar things
One day, you will laugh…;-)
March 27th, 2009 at 1:10 amYou will one day look back at laugh at this as your son will be creating shatterproof panes for NASA shuttles! So maybe it was all an experiment?
March 27th, 2009 at 1:23 amMy brother did that (he was 8 or 9), except it was the neighbors front glass door and a BB gun. We also, all stood and watched it slowly crack and fall. Then the story concocting began, lol. I think he told the truth about a year ago, he was 32.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:36 amOh my goodness! All you can do when that happens is just watch it crack. My son did that to his dad’s car window with an air gun pellet. Nothing like the sound of cracking glass!
March 27th, 2009 at 7:03 amthe good news is that in 10 years, this story will be told around the dinner table when everyone is back home- and you will all chuckle.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:27 amYou could always blame it on the storms and the hail that flew amazingly straight-horizontal to hit your front door…
March 27th, 2009 at 8:23 amBut it’s so pretty - it took me a minute to realize it was broken.
March 27th, 2009 at 8:32 amBecause he wanted to see what was going to happen is as good an explanation as ever. I remember throwing a small magnet against the back of our old Scout over and over again for no reason that I can remember. I didn’t quit until it went through the back window. OOPS. I still remember well how scared I was after that.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:20 amThe post went from chuckle to laugh out loud funny with the last line - I’d really like a dull moment or two around here. That really says it all. Is just like something my boys would do and I “only” have 2…
March 27th, 2009 at 9:44 amWhen our youngest son was 8, he carved, yes CARVED his name in the side of the suburban. Scratched it all the way down to the sheet metal. We didn’t even have to ask who did it - it was the “writing on the wall” that gave it away. LOL It was so awful at the time, but now, we can laugh about it. And, when we sold it, the family had a child the same name as ours - so they teased their son about how it was destiny that they buy it. LOL
March 27th, 2009 at 10:27 amOh no!
March 27th, 2009 at 10:31 amI have dents (gouges actually) in my front door from when my eldest locked the youngest outside… He took a claw hammer to the door trying to get in :o|
I have small holes in my security screen, my ceilings, my walls from bb gun fights… :o|
I have a bedroom wall full of slice marks from one of my boys practicing knife throwing… :o|
But. I wouldn’t trade them for the world :o)
March 27th, 2009 at 10:39 amWith 4 boys (the youngest 8 right now) we are up to about 8 or nine broken windows since we’ve lived in our house (almost nine years). One broken sliding door window in our old house and a broken windshield. I’m thinking we should have invested in glass insurance.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:24 amI thought this was from the hail as well. Until I read the post.
I agree with Old Bird re: the world is full of eight-year old boys. I am married to one and work with whole bunch of them.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:29 pmWell. I guess it’s better than having someone shooting at your front door, if that’s any consolation! When I first saw the small hole, I thought it was a bullet hole!
March 27th, 2009 at 12:44 pmSomeone in the under-10 set at our house threw a rock and broke one pane of a double-paned window in the kitchen.
Investigators, despite other more plausible suspects, continue to blame the incident on Not Me.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pmLast fall i went to the car and saw a baseball size hole in my tail light. When asking the then 12 year old what happened he said “i didn’t do it” I asked if he had been playing ball in the driveway he said “no but it looks like it could have been a bseball” Ya think is what my reponse in my head was.
March 27th, 2009 at 2:56 pmBecause I have one just about to turn eight and a few more following closely behind - do you have to have the whole oval replaced or just that layer of glass!
SO sorry!
March 27th, 2009 at 5:43 pmWhen he was seven, my son carved his name along with the rest of the family’s names into the dining room with a fork. His reasoning? If someone stole our table, we’d be able to identify it.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:28 pmIs his birthday coming up soon? Can he get a brand new front door as a present? Those doors are not cheap. Well at least you had vodka on hand at the time.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:21 amDear God. You are a saint.
I would have killed him.
Or at least tried to.
You are a much better woman than I.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm