Pull Tabs at the Bar

About a month ago, the kids came with me to count money at the city owned bar. I have to do this as part of my job. So on Saturdays when Dad isn't around to watch the kiddos, they have to come with me. They love to go to the bank for a treat.

We were still there when the bartender got there and the kids had been bugging me about what the box of cards were and they wanted to play them. So I obliged and bought 5 tickets. They had fun pulling the tabs off and of course wanted to keep them. Well it turned out we had a winner. So the kids and I won $100, that was exciting for them and me. We went to town and I took them for lunch with our winnings after we finished what needed to be done in town.

Last weekend we were all at the bar again and they talked me into the pull tabs again if the bartender showed up before we left. They got lucky and we bought a few. They were sitting on the bar stools and Buddy was apparently tipping his seat a little. I wasn't paying the most attention because I had Bubba up on a stool too and needed to watch him.

Before I knew it the bar stool Buddy was sitting on fell backward and he fell forward hitting his forehead on the foot rest of the stool. Poor little guy, he had a big ol welt on his forehead. After he calmed down everything was fine. It was just going to be a big purple and blue welt and quite a story to tell.

And tell he does.... This weekend we were at my parents and had my sisters baby shower. Everyone there of course was asking Buddy what he did to his head, the conversations went a bit like this:

random person: "Where'd you get that bump"
Buddy: "I was playing pull tabs at the Bar"
RP: "pull tabs, at the bar"
Buddy: "yeah, and I fell off the stool"

Okay so it sounds more dramatic when he says it in person, for a parent though it's kind of embarrassing. Well you know kids, they will tell anybody who will listen anything. When we left today we stopped at a gas station in Blooming Prairie and a random patron asked Buddy about his owie, which off he went to tell the story about pull tabs at the bar. It wouldn't have been a big deal except there was a police officer in line behind us. I quickly tried to shush him and left. I am sure there are worse things that he could have been telling and the officer just smiled.