how to make a joke

1. invite parent over to apartment for christmas

2. buy christmas tree

3. take small piece of 2x4 and bore 2-3" hole through center

4. attempt unsuccessfully to use as tree stand

5. repeat steps 3 and 4 until parent is able to stabalize tree with old fashioned ingenuity (bobby pins, string, tape, etc)

6. have parent endlessly mock your failed attempts

7. do not throw away wood pieces

8. years later, have siblings visit

9. if you look carefully, and are high, you can now enjoy the perverse awkwardness of having made what appear to be several portable glory holes. suggest sending parent one as a christmas gift*. good stuff.

*do not actually send. do not tell parent about blog. if confronted, insist that a glory hole is a german pastry similar to a bunt cake, tradtionally made during the christmas season.



joke hole