It's Tough Being the Youngest

Poor little Sam takes a lot of abuse from us; it's her fault she's the baby. So in keeping with tradition, we wanted to make her first day of school memorable.

The Plan: Find Sam's car in the high school parking lot and move it. When school gets out, watch her look for her car and panic a little. Leave a note in her spot so she knows it's us and then watch her try to find us. Harmless, good fun.


What Actually Happened: Apparently this year the high school decided to stop giving assigned spots, so you can park anywhere. We found Sam's car, moved it as planned, and left this Veronica Mars themed note.


Sam gets out of school and starts to walk to where she thought she parked her car. Here comes the problem. No assigned spot. So she doesn't exactly know where she parked her car. She realizes her car is not where she thought she left it, but never found the note. Naturally she gets really upset. She calls Mom and starts asking what we did. Here comes the next problem. She spots her car in the back of the lot where we moved it. We're on the other side of the parking lot. She is now already at her car . . . and really, really mad at us. Oops. After finally calming her down, we drove her around to the note. Of course now she laughs . . . and maybe just maybe loves us again.


It's tough being the baby. We keep telling her she'll miss us when we're gone next week, but she just keeps asking for her peace and quiet back. Maybe it's just us who will miss her.