# Do you really think that blanket is going to save you?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 19, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-think-that-blanket-is-going-to-save-you/143708 "2002-12-19T01:32:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-think-that-blanket-is-going-to-save-you/143708/41 "2002-12-20T17:00:50Z")

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> The film showed a family on a pic-nic and suddenly the mushroom cloud appears in the distance. What does the family do? They dive under the blanket they had laid out on the grass.

I remember a professor of mine talking about the drills he had in elementary school-- all the little kids would crawl under their desks. Thinking about that always makes me sad.

This, however, cracks me up:

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> From the closet “No she’s not! She’s hiding! You can’t find her!”

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**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-think-that-blanket-is-going-to-save-you/143708/42 "2002-12-20T17:54:18Z")

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The other fun thing is when I make my daughter invisible:  
“Daddy, do you want to play toys with me?”

I look over at my wife. “Honey, did you hear something?”

Wife says “I didn’t hear anything.”

“Oh,” I’ll say. “It must have been a bug.”

“I’m not a bug!” says daughter. “I’m a want to play toys with you!”

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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-really-think-that-blanket-is-going-to-save-you/143708/43 "2002-12-20T19:04:50Z")

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Speaking of tactical errors…If I hid in the laundry room behind the door, WeePundit would choose that as her hiding spot the very next round. If I hid under the coffee table, there WeePundit would be next round.

After the first time (where admittedly it was the last place I looked) I must say it really sucked as a strategy.

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