My brother-in-law has this rule that whenever one of his kids say they're bored that they have to clean something. You would think that knowing of this rule would keep children from complaining that they're bored, but it doesn't!
So, on one particular day his little girls said, "I'm bored."
As you can well imagine, their Daddy enforced his rule by saying, "Go clean your room." After 5 minutes, they came back to tell him that their room was all clean.
He went in to inspect this statement, and to his utter dismay the room was completely clean. He looked in the closet, checked under the bed, and was about to congratulate them when he noticed the window was open.
Sliding over to close the window, he noticed the reason the room was so completely clean in such a short period of time- Out on the front lawn was everything that used to be in the little girl's room!
