They are kidding, right?
Welcome to the ``Flat Daddy" and ``Flat Mommy" phenomenon, in which life-size cutouts of deployed service members are given by the Maine National Guard to spouses, children, and relatives back home.
The Flat Daddies ride in cars, sit at the dinner table, visit the dentist, and even are brought to confession, according to their significant others on the home front.
``I prop him up in a chair, or sometimes put him on the couch and cover him up with a blanket," said Kay Judkins of Caribou, whose husband, Jim, is a minesweeper mechanic in Afghanistan. ``The cat will curl up on the blanket, and it looks kind of weird. I've tricked several people by that. They think he's home again."
So they think what? Human children are like baby birds? That they can't tell the difference? This seems shallow, stupid and little mean.
And what happens when the parent comes home? It could freak the kids out! It could break down their sense of reality!
Besides, it will make Wire Mommy very angry.
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I find your satire to be very disappointing. I, for one, have consulted my Stand Up JoePa(terno) for important family and life decisions for 20 years now. When you look in his eyes, it's like he's looking back at you. Then it gets creepy when his eyes follow you around the room. Uh, oh...maybe it's time to find a new spiritual adivsor. Any suggestions?
When I worked at Kurzweil, someone had bought a cut-out Spock and put it in the cafeteria. All very amusing until the head of IT and I had a better idea. People used to cut through the computer room as a shortcut in and out of the office suite we were in. It was a problem for various reasons, security and cooling among them. To get into the computer room though, you had turn around a blind corner, so we decided that was the perfect place for Spock.
A victim, always in a hurry, would rush around the corner and run see Spock out of the conrer of their eye, become startled and then scream. Loudly.
This never failed, even for those of us who were in on the joke.
Also, there is no beter spirtual advisor than JoePa. If he's not working out... well... you're problems are bigger than you think.
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