Close to Home by John McPherson for January 06, 2013

Or, break a toy that’s under the bed…

Then engineers solution

perfect logic if you ask me…

The ones in the closet are still good to go, however….

Yeah, but he’ll have to get out of bed to reach it, and he’ll wake up without monsters OR shins.

Don’t hit Mr. Fluff!

Boy, that’s comforting. Sweet dreams.

Cool!

However, when the monsters wake up…they’re REALLY going to be mad.

" Its new and improved! "

Look at the connections. It won’t work.

what a great dad!

Wouldn’t it be a lot simpler if, say, the sweat from his anxiety dripped onto a sponge, and the weighted sponge threw a scale out of balance, which caused a lighter to ignite, burning a hole through a rope, dropping a piece of cheese in front of a mouse, causing the mouse to run on an exercise wheel, with the turning of that wheel causing a record to turn at low speed on a turntable, the noise from which spooks a dog whose collar is attached to…

Snerk!

Ha! Yes, I remember Rube Goldberg….

Awesome! :-)

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I love how everything’s a Rube Goldberg contraption here.

LOVE IT!!! Better than the “magic invisible net” I threw over my boys’ closet door!! Way better!