Wee Willy Winky
I once babysat for my cousin who was about 5 at the time and a very excitable young tot. Anyway, after several hours of playing Guess Who, and other games, to tire the little monkey out and several aborted attempts to get him into bed I decided that another tactic was to be employed.

Do you remember the character “Wee Willie Winky” and the rhyme that went with this? Well I decided to become the man himself, donning my granddads dressing gown (he was staying with my Nan at the time) and picking up a candle holder I decided to ambush the little tyke on the stairs as he attempted to thwart my plans to get him successfully into bed and asleep, Surely “Wee Willy Winky” the very personification of sleep for erstwhile children would convince him to get to bed and allow me to go back to watching TV in peace? No.

Imagine the scene, I am in position in the landing near the top of the stairs, suitably dressed in WWW style ready to intercept my cousin as he tried to get back downstairs and continue to misbehave. This enough as you can imagine would be pretty terrifying to a child of 5, however I did not stop at the dressing gown, in some massively ill advised display of creativity I thought the costume needed the final touch of taping plastic spoons to my fingers……..

My cousin left his bedroom with happy childish ideas of joining his older more responsible cousin downstairs and getting to watch some grown up (but not that sort of grown up) TV, only to find a hooded maniac with plastic spoons for fingers wielding a candle at him and chanting a slightly menacing nursery rhyme. He went mental and started shouting for me, I thought he was laughing and kept up the disguise for a full 5 minutes (a long time for a 5 year old) before I realised he was terrified and revealed that the maniac was in fact his me, his cousin Superkitty, needless to say I allowed the now highly suspicious lad to return downstairs and watch Thomas the tank engine videos with me until his mum got home and was never asked to babysit for him again.
(superkitty is neither super nor a kitty, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 10:57, 6 replies)

Ha!
I have to say, even though I'm five times the age of your cousin, that would probably freak the fuck out of me!
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 10:59, closed)

He's never been the same since, cant help feeling a little guilty even after 12 years!
(superkitty is neither super nor a kitty, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 12:13, closed)

What were the spoons for?
You must have looked like a retarded version of Freddy Krueger.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 20:41, closed)

I honestly couldn't say
they seemed like a good idea at the time?!
(superkitty is neither super nor a kitty, Sat 30 Oct 2010, 15:12, closed)

i read the part about the plastic spoons 5 minutes ago
i'm still giggling
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 29 Oct 2010, 21:57, closed)

Hahahaha!!!!
The spoons! You freakin weirdo! The spoons! I love it! Sorta thing I would do! Brilliant!
( user_names_suck, Sun 31 Oct 2010, 0:03, closed)