The Electric ChaIr

"No you don't!" Tallulah shouted, running after her older brother. But Tyler was one step ahead, and with a smug grin, plopped down in the old armchair.
"This is so comfortable," he taunted his sister. "Glad I thought to put that electric blanket on the seat."
"It was my idea!" Tallulah pouted.
The weather was colder than a witch's -well, the weather was awfully cold, and the heat in the trailer wasn't working too well. Aubrey, the repairman, was supposed to fix it three days ago, but nobody had heard from him. Mommy had gone out to buy a space heater, telling her five and her nine-year old "Now be good 'til I get back." That was 30 minutes ago.
"Come on, Tyler!" Tallulah whined. "I had to go potty. You already had your turn."
Tyler had no intention of relinquishing his spot. "Move your meat, lose your seat."
Tallulah seethed. Marching over to the outlet, she yanked out the plug. When Tyler jumped out of the chair to reinsert it, another scramble ensued, which resolved with Tyler back in the comfort zone, and Tallulah in tears.
Feeling slight remorse, he told his sister, "Just another five minutes, Tally. I promise. Don't cry."
Sniffling, the little girl wandered into the kitchen. Placing a two-step plastic stool in front of the cupboard, she mounted the platform, opened the cupboard, and carefully took out a tall drinking glass. But Tallulah wasn't thirsty.
"Whatcha doin'?" her brother called.
His sister ignored him. Climbing down slowly, she filled the glass with cold water from the spigot. Then she waited a minute. And a minute more. Returning to the den, she stood next to the coveted armchair and held the glass of water in her hand.
Tyler turned to look at his sister before the water hit him full in the face. He screamed twice, the second one louder than the first.
Tallulah was as shocked as Tyler (maybe not quite as shocked). When her brother woke up in the hospital he had no recollection of what happened. To avoid a spanking -and perhaps worse- she told Mommy that Tyler had been drinking the glass of water when he accidentally spilled it on himself. So Mommy threw out the old electric blanket, which she discovered had a small hole. And Tyler got a spanking for nearly giving Mommy a heart attack.