'The boobytrapped door was not level': Clever son complies with dad's request, creating an ambush after Tetrising an entire case of beer bottles inside the mini fridge

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 2, 2024 6:00 AM EDT

There's a certain point in every kid's life when they realize their parents aren't always right. Once you're old enough for deductive reasoning, it becomes pretty clear that parents aren't very logical–especially when it comes to dishing out commands during the family vacation. 

I get it, parents are stressed out when they pack up the kids and take 'em to the campsite, but before ordering your kid to load up the mini fridge with a whole case of bottled beers, be sure to be clear about the need to be able to take the beers OUT afterward. In this next story, a snarkily clever kiddo maliciously complied with daddy's orders after getting punished for being incapable of fitting every single bottle into the mini fridge in their camper. 

It was time to test out his Tetris skills, proving that every beer COULD fit in the fridge, as long as they were dastardly boobytrapped inside a sealed door. Scroll for the entire amusing story of family vacation silliness when a kid does exactly as he was told…

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    Make this pack of beers fit in that fridge (they don't fit...)
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    We were going camping 40 years ago. We had a pop up trailer with a built in mini fridge with a sink and cook top. My dad said, "put these beers in the fridge."
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    I took the beers. I don't remember exactly, but I think it was a 12 pack of long neck glass bottles. I opened the fridge and put the beers in. They didn't all fit. I put them
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    all upright. I guaranteed that the door could close and that none would fall out when you opened the fridge. There were some in the door where condiments go. It was pretty full. I reported back.
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    They were angry when they heard that they didn't all fit. They commanded that I go back and put ALL the beers in the fridge and not to come back until that was done.
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    Could the beers be on their side with the fridge door still closing and I could stack them up? No. Could I put beers that are upside down with the beers that are right side up? It
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    wasn't stable. I worked at it for a while since I didn't have a time limit. I like geometry. I'm good at math. I like puzzles. Still, it could not be done. I was satisfied that
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    volume of the beer challenged the volume of the fridge and that there were possible alternative unstable stacking methods that could get some more bottles in
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    there, but woe to anyone who opened the fridge because the cascade of beers would be impressive. Feeling confident I reported back that the request could not be done.
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    They were enraged. It strikes my adult self that I should have just reported victory and hid the other beers somewhere else in the camper until there was room in the fridge. Maybe
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    I should have drank the ones that didn't fit... I was young though. Didn't think of that. They were so mad. I had to go back and fit them ALL in the fridge.
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    Okay then. I went for an unstable arrangement of beers and worked at it for sometime until I could just slam the door closed in time to form a seal.
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    Eventually they opened the boobytrapped door. The camper was not level. As the door opened the beers all rolled out of the fridge in a rush for the open door of the camper like salmon jumping
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    free when the dam is released, but they crashed in pools of broken glass and beer on rocks. My dad caught a few like an Alaskan bear on the river. He got like two in each mitt.
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    I expected to be yelled at again, but no. Strangely the worst of it was reporting the news that they didn't fit and not the aftermath of the great beer migration.
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    RJack151 2 days ago I thought you were going to dump the beer into a container that fit in the fridge, resulting in flat beer when they went to drink it.
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    eighty_more_or_less 2 days ago didn't know that Alaskan beer were found in the river? Or is that the result of havig too many bears? 87 Reply Share AppropriateRip9996 OP. 2 days ago You have to keep them cold somehow.
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    ckeilah 2 days ago I was so hoping that the "solution" would be to turn the icebox on its side, crack open every bottle, and pour ALL the beer into the box!
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    East-Jacket-6687 2 days ago lol you offer the extra beers to the people outside. Oh do you want one. then magically they fit.
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    Lucy_Lastic 1 day ago lol @ great beer migration - it would have been such an awesome and moving sight, one not often witnessed by human eyes
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    Only Midnight4757 2 days ago They act like children should just know how to do everything that even they can't do, even if it's impossible, it's wild. Children are not servants.
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    AppropriateRip9996 OP. 1 day ago Not being believed is infuriating as a child, but I love horror movies now where the parents downplay what the kids say at their own peril.
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    espenbex 2 days ago I can just see it my self as your Father opens the fridge and try too catch the flying beers like salmons flying from bears
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    modernwunder 1 day ago Honestly the tail end of your story is making me laugh so hard. So vivid
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