Welcome to Scary Story kids. My name is Edwin and today's story is about
a man who struggles with the neighborhood kids. Does they mess up his yard?
Little do they know that he has a plan to scare them away.
Are you ready? Here we go. It was one of those days where
the clouds work hard to cover up the sun. Sonny, then cloudy,
then sunny again. Mister Binkman was looking out the window, angry at just
thinking that a swarm of kids was about to get out from school and walk
down his street. He had tried everything, from acting mean to sprain the
water hose across the yard. He had made a kid cry that way,
but did it hurt. Of course it didn't. He had gotten complaints,
many of them mostly from angry parents passing by. Well, that's until one
of the kid's moms came by recording him with her cell phone. Mister Binkman
had already gotten training, though his daughter had told him to be careful.
If they record him and he goes viral, that will be the end of
him. One thing about him, though, is that he was an honest
man. Those who knew mister Binkman back when he was younger would say that
he was one of the kindest souls. It was always smiling, but those
kids had worn him out. They would jump around his front yard and like
to roll down the tiny hill he had built over the years, many years
from all of the leaves and dirt he had gathered as he perfected his garden.
Flowers of all kinds and colors lined his fence, and the most richest,
darkest dirt lined the edges to help his plants grow. And those kids
were ruining him. All. There were four of them, mainly, and
he would refer to them by names he had given them. Water Kid,
who was the kid who had cried from getting sprinkled by the water hose,
Ponytail, the girl with the messiest ponytail ever, Belly who was the one
whose shirt was too short for him, and Belly's younger sister, Booger Girl,
because well, you get the point. It was like they were taunting
mister Binkman so much that anyone really knowing his story would feel sorry for him,
But not these kids. Ever, since water Kid's mom complained and said
that she would call the police on him, the kid felt more powerful than
ever and would stand there on top of the hill of mister Binkman's yard and
just wait to be seen. But mister Binkman had a plan. He had
seen it somewhere in a movie or a TV show. He was going to
scare those children once and for all, and so he went to the hardware
store and got a piece of wood. But then he needed paint, so
he chose the color red. He had a saw to cut the wood at
his house, so he skipped getting one of those, but at the cash
register he made sure to pick out his favorite candy bar. He then paid
and drove back home. Oh, it was going to be so good.
He unloaded everything and got to the garage. He cut the board of wood
into the perfect size, the square. He fixed the sides, and there
it was. Then he changed his mind. A sign like this must not
look perfect, so he cut along an edge to make it just a little
bit crooked. He looked at it and then got the paint ready. This
was going to scare those children once and for all. He could already imagine
the looks on their faces, and they would see the sign, and letter
by letter, mister Binkman traced the words and then stepped back. Children need
for sale Now came the hardest part, the waiting. He needed for darkness
to arrive in order to put up the sign on the yard. The next
afternoon, mister Binkman eagerly waited by his window until finally he saw the herd
of them leaving the school, like ants crawling out of their colony. Water
Kid was the first to see it. He walked up to it, read
it, and then took off, running right across the street, probably to
go get his momb But then Pointytail and the other two came by with their
backpacks. Belly pointed at the sign, but Booger Girl I didn't know how
to read because she walked up to it and had no reaction. Mister Binkman
was holding back his laughter, although he couldn't keep it in. Once he
saw their reactions. The rest were pulling Booger Gol away and running toward the
sidewalk. His plan had worked. Finally, it was time to celebrate,
and so he got the large candy bar he had bought at the hardware store
and then sat in front of the television to watch his game show. But
just when it was about to start, there was a knock on the door.
Mister Binkman opened the door and saw water kid's mom standing there shouting at
him angrily a phone in her hand. She was going to record him.
He tried to close the door, but this angered the woman even more,
saying that she would call the news and the police, and did she even
say the President of the United States. He managed to close the door.
The woman eventually left. What happened next made mister Binkman think twice about his
prank. Had it been worth it? He would get phone calls from the
local television shows, people claiming to be YouTubers, and curious people would stand
outside of his house. His daughter told him not to draw any attention to
himself and to just wait it out, and that he did. Four days
after that, things had died down and had gone back to normal. But
one thing had changed. The kids were no longer jumping around his front yard
and destroying his garden, and so mister Binkman continued with his life, watching
television and tending to his garden in the afternoons, fixing things up here and
there. But one day, while his television show was almost over, he
got a phone call. He walked over to it and picked it up.
Hello, He said. After a little while, he heard from the other
end, I'm calling about the sign. Oh no, he thought to himself,
and he was about to hang up, but that's when he heard the
person on the other end say desperately, wait wait. Mister Binkman waited for
him to continue without saying another word, and then from the other end he
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