Hey kids, be careful out there. The field is full of red ants, spiders, and snakes. The most frightful enemy though are the big kids in the sixth grade that will run right over you and even steal your basket. Most Easter candy is crummy anyway. Empty your piggy bank and go for the Belgian or Dutch chocolate available at the mall. Then sit back and laugh at these joyful fools get ant bites and bruises in their Easter Egg War.
March 26, 2016
Carl D'Agostino
I Know I Made You Smile 
28 responses to ““Egg War” by Carl D’Agostino”
silentlyheardonce
April 5th, 2016 at 00:15
Never thought of that.
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duckofindeed
March 27th, 2016 at 19:09
When I was a duckling, our townhouse-neighborhood had an Easter egg hunt, and I found one of the special big eggs. I won a kite shaped like an eagle, but I didn’t end up using it until years later. At least, I tried, until my cat got caught in the string before we had even left the house and ran all about in a blind panic. It was immediately destroyed, and I never got to fly my kite. That’s my Easter story. Ha ha, it’s not a very cheery one on the surface, but I still have fond memories of these events, nonetheless. Oh, silly kitty.
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Carl D'Agostino
March 28th, 2016 at 10:42
You are so kind and forgiving. Resentful me would have “flown” the cat from the roof !
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Patti Küche
March 27th, 2016 at 13:02
I had a deprived childhood, no Easter egg hunts . . . . 😦
Happy Easter to you and your family Carl! 🙂
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Carl D'Agostino
March 28th, 2016 at 10:44
I understand. I was never able to confront the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman, the Easter Bunny and Santa. Then I became a cynical alcoholic by 8 years old when I found out they were all frauds perpetuated on children from an untrustworthy world of adults.
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aurorajeanalexander
March 26th, 2016 at 19:36
I wonder how many kids are crying after this run… *sigh*
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 19:51
As they say “There’s next year, Charlie Brown. “
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Theanne aka magnoliamoonpie
March 26th, 2016 at 16:30
WOW we had all those things in our yard (rural Virginia) when I was a kid and my Mom or sister hid the hard boiled eggs we’d colored. I don’t remember giving the critters much thought though…and if my sister (7 years older) had messed with me I’d have put an arm lock on her ankle 😀 😀 😀 The thing I do remember most is when someone would find an egg that hadn’t been found the year before…STINKY…doesn’t really describe it 🙂 Happy Easter to you and your Dad Carl 🙂
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 19:47
Ah, I see you are a natural . It’s war and nothing is a better feeling than to make a kid scream and cry and run to his mother when you take some of his eggs. That’s the real Christian way !
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Theanne aka magnoliamoonpie
March 27th, 2016 at 09:17
I’ll have to admit I’ve been to some Easter egg hunts that were as brutal as you say. But I’d have been the kid who was helping other shrinking violets like myself find all the eggs they could…I didn’t care who found the most as long as the bullies left me and my “crew” alone 😀 😀 😀
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alesiablogs
March 26th, 2016 at 13:24
those darn bullies!!!!
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 19:50
Every man for himself. Only the Elect will be saved.
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Laura
March 26th, 2016 at 12:43
😀
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lulu
March 26th, 2016 at 12:34
That’s happening right here in the neighborhood today.
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 19:49
We’ll have one tomorrow at my Presbyterian church. It is a very old group in our congregation so there will be only seven children. They’ll each need a wheelbarrow.
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lulu
March 26th, 2016 at 20:24
Be sure to take one!
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Craig N.
March 26th, 2016 at 10:25
Throw Some Banana Peels Out There And Watch The Fun
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 10:30
It will teach them to live life on banana terms.
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poemsandponderings
March 26th, 2016 at 10:14
Today’s sixth graders will steal their cell phones too, which every kid over the age of 6 seems to have. They’d steal the sneakers too, but they are not quite as “fashionable” as the larger sizes.. Call me a cynic if you will.
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 10:21
Not at all. My school was 90% eligible for free lunch because family at or under poverty line but many had that $100 cell phone thing.
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poemsandponderings
March 26th, 2016 at 22:45
No surprise there, but unfortunately “keeping up with the Jones'” also has a whole different meaning sometimes and especially in some depressed areas.
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Carl D'Agostino
March 27th, 2016 at 08:57
Yes, teens have to kept some kind of stature in the group.
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Darlene
March 26th, 2016 at 09:33
Happy Easter Carl. I hope the grade sixers will let you have a couple of Easter eggs this year.
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 10:22
Oh I will. I have a team of enforcers in the eighth grade.
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Maxi
March 26th, 2016 at 08:36
So true, still you will never talk the little ones out of an Easter egg hunt.
blessings ~ maxi
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 08:48
So few traditions of our childhood remain or they have been commercialized beyond recognition.
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cbholganza
March 26th, 2016 at 07:39
Haha! I miss this, Carl!!! Been a long time, as my kids have outgrown this already. Wish I could be a kid again. 😦
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Carl D'Agostino
March 26th, 2016 at 07:42
The red ant bites were the worst for me. Now they have plastic eggs with coins or M&M’s in them.
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