Months have gone by since the \u201cBicycle Tire Explosion of 2010\u201d and Christmas is rapidly approaching. The wife and I debated on getting the neighbor Swahili kids something for Christmas. Now, for me it was a shot at gaining back a little karma and saving face. The wife felt bad for them because she would only see them playing with a ball. She assumed that maybe in their culture they might not celebrate Christmas or maybe wouldn\u2019t get anything.<\/p>\n
So we made our decision and went to Toys-R-Us and bought some books, nerf guns, foot balls, beach balls, some soccer balls. There is also this toy that is a large heavy balloon that comes with a big rubber band. You blow up the balloon, tie the rubber band around it, and then smack the balloon like a paddle ball. It\u2019s called a Punch-Ball-Balloon.<\/p>\n
They are pretty annoying and the size of a beach ball.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the wife wraps up the gifts and we decided that we would deliver them Christmas morning.<\/p>\n
Christmas morning comes and they are not home. A few days got by before I see activity over at their house. Seems they did get a few things -a couple of new bicycles and some little scooters. I seen one of the little boy\u2019s was out side so I carried over the gifts and gave them to him.<\/p>\n
He said \u201cthank you\u201d.<\/p>\n
I told him \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019.<\/p>\n
The next day I see a few of the kids in the back yard playing with Punch-Ball-Balloon. They were punching them into their little sister\u2019s \u00a0head.<\/p>\n
All I would hear is the loud smack of them hitting the balloon then it bouncing off a head followed by \u201cMERRRY CHRISTMAS!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhack!\u201d \u2013 \u201cTHUD\u201d – \u201cMERRY CHRISTMAS!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhack!\u201d \u2013 \u201cTHUD\u201d – \u201cMERRY CHRISTMAS!\u201d<\/p>\n
At this point, I knew four out of five Swahili kids loved Christmas and the Punch-Ball-Balloon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Months have gone by since the \u201cBicycle Tire Explosion of 2010\u201d and Christmas is rapidly approaching. The wife and I debated on getting the neighbor Swahili kids something for Christmas. Now, for me it was a shot at gaining back a little karma and saving face. The wife felt bad for them because she would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tidbits","tag-tidbits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t