February 22, 2006

To the Justice-Mobile!

Cheryl related the following story to me this morning. This week is school vacation week, and she allowed the kids to stay up late to watch the Olympics. She heard her son, Rohan, hop out of bed, turn off the TV, go to the bathroom, and get back into bed. Some time later, she awoke and went into his room to make sure that he was tucked in and comfy. Instead, she found his large stuffed snake arranged in bed and covered up with blankets so as to resemble a sleeping boy. (Have the kids been watching Escape from Alcatraz?)

Rohan was downstairs, in front of the computer, playing City of Heroes at 1:00AM. The kids are only allowed to play online when there is a parent in the room, but Dad's password was apparently easy enough for a 7-year-old to figure out and he figured Mom would be unconscious 'til morning. No moral to the story, really… just that kids can be sneaky and CoH is addictive (but we already knew that).


Posted by rv at February 22, 2006 11:17 AM to CoH
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Rohan is a cool name. Do you know how your friend chose it?

Just curious, have you ever teamed up with any (around) 7-year olds in CoH missions? If yes, how did you discover thier age?

Posted by: at February 22, 2006 01:02 PM

I don't remember how they picked the name. I seem to recall that it's Sanskrit in origin, but it could have just as easily come from Tolkien.

To my knowledge, I've never teamed with any really young kids. 12-year-olds, maybe, just based on their language skills and typing ability. In general, I prefer teaming with "older" gamers. I find that too much IM-speak and LOLing really gets on my nerves. And yes, I realize that this probably makes me the in-game equivalent of the scary old lady with a walker, screaming "Hey, you kids, get offa my lawn!"

Posted by: rv at February 22, 2006 01:21 PM

Was this on SpongeBob or something? My nephews pulled this trick on my dad about a month back.

Posted by: jay at February 22, 2006 01:24 PM

And BTW, that first comment struck me as a little creepy.

Posted by: jay at February 22, 2006 01:27 PM

lol 4 teh w1n!

Posted by: n00b at February 22, 2006 06:26 PM

Hmmm… I thought the first comment was from you, Jay. (I figured you'd just forgotten to enter your name.) At any rate, no I didn't think anything of it at first glance, but now you've got me worried that it's The Incr3dib13 P3d0phi13, trolling for little kids. Must go wash hands now.

Posted by: rv at February 22, 2006 06:35 PM

Actually, before you said that I was pretty sure I'd met Cheryl (at New Years?) before but maybe I'm confusing her with someone else.

Posted by: Jay at February 23, 2006 09:48 AM

You've probably met Donna at New Year's.

Posted by: poz at February 24, 2006 03:36 PM

I've definitely met Donna (in conjuction with Bob), unless it's a different Donna you're refering to.
The person (people) I was thinking of stopped by S&K's but didn't stay over. Husband was, perhaps, from a Nordic country (and perhaps this is causing my confusion as Rohan sounds Nordic to me).

Posted by: Jay at February 27, 2006 04:52 PM

That's Jodi and Martin (sp?)— Martin is Dutch. They're both major gamers too.

Posted by: rv at February 27, 2006 05:05 PM

Mystery solved!

Posted by: Jay at February 27, 2006 08:00 PM