Yes, yes, let the poor child hide in his hobbit hole… He will finally be able to come out in 30 or 40 years for his next adventure…
Just like the rest of us
You’re coming out of your hole? I think mine’s getting more comfy by the day.
Don’t you talk about my hole like that
Sounds like he’s all shook up… Uh huh huh.
Man, that sounds like something great to do on purpose.
Am I the only one questioning the reality of any of this? What kind of kid just happens to have an Elvis costume laying around?
No, the dialogue between a mother and child every time a school wants kids to dress up as something is “Oh hell how are we going to throw this together?” Yes even for an elf costume. And I can’t think of any scenario where a school would suddenly spring this on a family “oh by the way you all need to dress up like an elf for tomorrow’s morning assembly.”
This didn’t happen.
scenario where a school would suddenly spring this on a family “oh by the way you all need to dress up like an elf for tomorrow’s morning assembly.”
That part makes sense. They could’ve told the kid way sooner and sent several notes home that are still in his backpack.
Being a caretaker for small humans, as well as an educator, I would say that no amount of info material will guarantee a successful delivery. Only way is to require a parental signature, and enough time to follow up a couple of times. IDK that seems a bit over the top for a theme morning assembly.
Really it’s just a dumb claim, because any school event kids are going to dress up for is always planned in detail ahead of time. It’s a big thing the kids look forward to and talk about. A teacher doesn’t just say, “Dress up like elves, ok bye.”
Not to mention that Elvis died 50 years ago - what elementary aged school child knows who Elvis is? My kids find the music of the 2000s to be retro
It’s quite plausible though, considering they just returned from the class trip to Las Vegas.
Ah yes that annual third grade class trip for gambling and hookers
One in Collingwood.
Sometimes you gotta let a kid make a mistake to teach them lol
God, this story and your comment reminded me. When I was… 13 or so probably, I was at some event for my brother and his group. People were speaking and I was half paying attention. I heard them say … <<lastname>> please come up. I thought they said my name, I started getting up, my mom tried to stop me but I was indignant. I got up there and was mortified as everyone stares at me, wondering why I’m up there. To this day I think of that, and I don’t get up in front of anyone unless I’m damn sure it’s supposed to be me.
Damn, that sounds like the most anxiety-inducing moment in your entire life 😭
It was right out of an awkward teenage drama. Only thing that could have made it worse would have been if I peed myself. I sheepishly just walked back to my seat
I once did the same in a roll-call. Someone else had my exact name with an extra letter, and neither of us heard the small phonetic difference. This was at a new-job orientation, so forever after we were branded. >.<
Went to school as an elvish impersonator.
I once made an actual Robo Elvis costume for a Halloween contest at work. I got kneepads and other safety equipment from the company surplus store and attached them to an Elvis jumpsuit from a thrift shop. The surplus store also had a weird helmet with a dropdown visor that covered most of my face. I screwed and hotglued various junk circuit boards onto the helmet, one of which I powered up and used pulses from it to blink LEDs at various places on the arms and legs. On the back I wrote ROBO ELVIS in glitter glue. It won $75 at the costume contest and I got a few years of mileage out of it.
It’s totally believable that a kid would think he was supposed to dress up as Elvis, because there probably wasn’t any discussion about elves or why the kids were supposed to dress up like elves. It wasn’t Elf Day or Lord of the Rings Day or anything - there was probably just a single intercom announcement, “Kids, tomorrow dress up like elves,” and he misheard it, as in a particularly implausible sitcom episode.
lolololol
Top Mom move if the kid had a spare elf costume. I hope he did have one, and just had to change :)
Too bad he didn’t figure out how to ham it up properly. Hail to the King, baby!
Elves never died; they just went home.
Elves lives!
Which one was he meant to be?
If I understand correctly, his mom let him go as Elvis but it did turn out to be elves.
Now I’m imaging Elvis singing a song in Elvish.
The Muppets did The Elves and the Shoemaker as Elvis and the Shoemaker, and they sang Blue Suede Shoes
Knew it was gonna be Brennan before even clicking. Only one who could
They always give Brennan the LOTR prompts.
+1 point for the undying lands?
Since it says the king returns home he went as Elvis so he was supposed to be an elf
Kids going places!
