“Get down here right now you headache of a person!”

I hadn’t meant to be so harsh, but sometimes harsh is the only way Maggie listens, “Come on Grace, it’s not that big a deal!”

She was perched on top of a balcony railing on the second story of the hotel. She was trying to reach a hundred dollar bill someone had put on one of the weird pillars surrounding the building.

“Maggie please get down...

“Get down from there right this second, you headache of a person!”

I looked down at Samuel with a smirk spread all over my face like peanut butter on toast.

“And why should I Sammy dearest?”

Molly ran out of the house just then and rushed over to him, grabbing his arm and clinging to it like a scared toddler as they both stared up at the roof where I crouched holding a big bucket of hot pink pa...

“Get down from there right this second, you headache of a person!”

No response. Keisha sighed, bracing herself to start climbing.

“I’m about thirty seconds from coming up there to get you, and you aren’t gonna like the consequences,” she warned.

Still no response.

Swearing under her breath, Keisha hauled herself onto the brick wall.

“If you make me climb all the way up there, I will shove...

"Get down from there right this second, you headache of a person!" my best friend called from an estimated thirty feet below my dangling body.

"Mmmmh...I don't think so" I jokingly sneered, as I pulled myself up onto the bark riddled branch, "The view's pretty glorious from up here, I think I may climb a touch higher, to get a better view of the skyline!"

Stevie and I had taken a four-day campi...

Mia's palms were slick with sweat as she clung to the ledge of the towering building. It was an impulse decision, one fueled by a desire to feel something-- anything-- other than the overwhelming numbness that had been gnawing at her soul for months. But as she peered down at the ant-like figures scurrying about the streets below, the reality of what she had done hit her like a ton of bricks.

Sud...

"Get down from there right this second, you sh*t head!"

The Pirate looked down. Mr. Jeffries was right below him at the base of the ladder. This was not going according to plan.

"What are you doing up there?" Jeffries barked. It really was a question but the Pirate knew what he was actually saying was "you had better not be be messing with our mascot or I am going to kicking your ass into next w...

"Get down from there right this second, you headache of a person!", the old guard said from below. "Stop wasting my fucking time! We both know you're too much of a pussy to jump.", he said while chuckling under his breath. I don't think I was supposed to hear that, but he did not make much of an effort to conceal it. As I look down at the people on the ground, I imagine them as itty, bitty an...

“Get down from there this second, you…. you…. headache of a man!”

His laugh sounded from high up in the leafy branches. “Does that mean you like me?”

She grumbled and walked closer to the trunk of the big maple. Above her, sitting astride a branch that did not look like it could hold the weight of a grown man, Oliver swung his legs with the carefreeness of a schoolboy.

“Care to join me?” He gr...

“Get down from there right this second, you headache of a person!”

“But daaaad! I just tried to jump as high as I could. It’s not my fault if I’ve reached the top of this tree”

“Baby, please come down before you are seen!”

“Okay…”

As I see my son jumps down and gently land on the grass, I can’t help but be anxious. Has anyone seen him? Has anyone understood that what they saw was not a mirage,...

“Get down from there right this second, you headache of a person!” I don’t even have the energy to yell anymore. He has been like this all day, not doing anything I’ve asked of him. Being a brat.

I’ve babysat some terrible children over the thirty something years I’ve been babysitting, but I can say with complete honesty. Kenny Phelps is by far the worst!

It takes a lot to rile me up, to frazzle...