# 6 weeks of bad, bad, bad Quarantine at the Wrek house. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 20, 2020, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-weeks-of-bad-bad-bad-quarantine-at-the-wrek-house/852168 "2020-04-20T06:23:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-weeks-of-bad-bad-bad-quarantine-at-the-wrek-house/852168/21 "2020-04-23T00:27:32Z")
My brother-in-law informed me, after the birth of The Daughter, that two invisible children would now live in my house. “NOT ME!” and “I DON’T KNOW.” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-weeks-of-bad-bad-bad-quarantine-at-the-wrek-house/852168/22 "2020-04-23T00:40:28Z")
**~VOW** , I know those two. They are very bad kids. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-weeks-of-bad-bad-bad-quarantine-at-the-wrek-house/852168/23 "2020-04-24T23:46:40Z")
**beck comes up with a plan** I’m trying to entertain these bored grand-wreks. And get them away from video games. The oldest actually said he missed school. :eek: WTH? I woulda paid money for this to happen when I was a young-un. Kids, today :smack: Well, here’s my idea: I’m gonna give each kid age appropriate jobs to do. And ‘pay’ them. Not real money, (not dumb, they know too much about real money as it is) monopoly money that they can trade in for treats. Am I doomed for failure? I ordered a treasure box. The kind like dentist offices have with little toys. And I had DIL get me a bag of dum-dum suckers. I’ll let you know how it goes. (:)) ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-weeks-of-bad-bad-bad-quarantine-at-the-wrek-house/852168/24 "2020-04-25T19:53:15Z")
I have an “essential” job and my co-workers think I just really love to be there since I work the maximum hours at a shitty place most people can’t wait to escape. Yeah, I’ll take the overtime but mostly I can’t imagine being stuck in a house with a bunch of people and animals. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-weeks-of-bad-bad-bad-quarantine-at-the-wrek-house/852168/25 "2020-04-25T20:16:53Z")
— **don’t rain on beck’s parade** — I’m taking the Tom Sawyer approach to getting the jobs meted out, to the grand-wreks. I got a feather duster and danced around the LR dusting and singing. Grandson ignored me and kept playing his DS. Granddaughter watched. She asked why I was dancing like that. I said “Its fun!” She didn’t ask to dust but she started following me. The 2 babies joined in. We had a silly parade dusting the house. Except…I’m the only one working. (Note to self: get more feather dusters) I’m not sure my plan is working. :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-weeks-of-bad-bad-bad-quarantine-at-the-wrek-house/852168.md?page=1)