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Old 09/29/2007, 11:56 AM
kookerson kookerson is offline
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Kids are Awesome!!!
Woke up this morning and saw a 12" long, diagonal scratch down the front of my 75 gallon.........after much interogation, I come to find out that my 4 year old wanted to clean the front of the tank with a rock. Just thought Id' share this for entertainment purposes! : )
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Old 09/29/2007, 12:13 PM
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Ugh.... Some how I've managed to avoid that so far, but it's inevitable!

Hope you can do something about the scratch!
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Old 09/29/2007, 12:21 PM
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from what I understand.....to fix a scratch in glass just makes it worse......it will take the scratch away, but it will look a little distorted.......
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Old 09/29/2007, 02:06 PM
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Wow! That's an interesting story. Really is lol.
Whenever I have family over I hide everything under the beds, use locks, lol.

My little causen fed my dog a whole bag of dog treats for his dinner. That dog was happy... but there went a 12 dollar bag of treats you can only get in this one store that is about 40 miles away... lol.
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Old 09/29/2007, 03:00 PM
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wow that really sucks.
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Old 09/29/2007, 03:09 PM
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Man, that's horrible. At least your child was "cleaning" the tank for you! How do you get mad at a 4 year old who meant well?
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Old 09/29/2007, 03:46 PM
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what a way to wake up!!
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Old 09/29/2007, 03:59 PM
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I do not have kids yet(me and my wife first year is comming up) and now I have something to look forward to!) To me that would be an exuse to get a new better tank
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Old 09/29/2007, 04:31 PM
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ya i know that issue my 2 year old likes to use the magnet clenaer to clean the sand bed... sand and glass dont mix...
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Old 09/29/2007, 04:32 PM
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Good thing the kid didn't use the rock and bang on the glass to put it in with the other rocks!!!!!!!!!
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Old 09/29/2007, 05:30 PM
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Wow! Thanks for the "natural" birth control for the day! I'm really sorry though that is terrible.
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Old 09/29/2007, 05:48 PM
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Some how 1 2 3 time-out just won`t cut it this time!
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Old 09/29/2007, 06:02 PM
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Good thing the kid didn't use the rock and bang on the glass to put it in with the other rocks!!!!!!!!!
Thats the very first thing I said! I can only imagine what he could have done had I not installed a locking latch on the cabinet when I was building it!
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Old 09/29/2007, 06:03 PM
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Some how 1 2 3 time-out just won`t cut it this time!
Actually, thats not what got him in trouble. I realize that kids will be kids......its when he started lying to me that I got upset!
 

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