Third Blog

Chris mentions the many times when he's shown his stupidity in life, screwed up and been just plain dumb plenty of times in this book considering it's an autobiography. The most famous "section" of his stupidity would have to be the "Wanna do something neat?" section. "'Wanna do something neat?' are four words that strike terror in my heart to this day. My answer was always yes when the question came from my brother. Then he'd tell me what the neat thing was, and it would always seem not so neat until he explained how what seemed like something that could really get you in trouble was, in fact, neat. Then I'd get in trouble. Once when he was playing cowboys outside with his friend and a bunch of other neighborhood kids and he gets to be Roy Rogers but he really has to pee and he knows that if he goes in the house to pee and comes back out again someone will have taken the part of Roy Rogers. But finally he really NEEDS to get it out and runs into the house. "John, sitting in a chair reading a book, observes the obvious as i burst through the door and says, 'Wanna do something neat?' 'Yeah, but just a sec, i have to go to the bathroom.' 'That's the neat thing, go there.' He points to the four-by-five heat-register grate in the middle of the leaving room floor. 'Huh-uh, you'll tell, I said.' 'Promise i won't, just wait till you see what happens, it's really neat.'"(Crutcher 36 and 37). So he ended up doing it and what happened wasn't neat at all! The pee evaorated and gassed the whole house and guess what? Chris got in trouble! Another favorite of mine is when John gets his neighbor to let him borrow his BB gun because the Crutcher parents won't allow them to have one. But anyways, we get into the "Wanna do something neat?" thing again and this time John gets Chris to run in front of him while he tries to shoot him with the BB gun and Chris ends up getting hit in the head and John never gets in trouble because he makes his little brother think that the more he cries about it the farther the BB will go into his head even though there never was a BB in his head it just bounced off thankfully.