聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽鈥淣ow you鈥檝e done it鈥� is a phrase that was often spoken by either my identical twin brother, Kjell; or myself. It was usually uttered after a prank had gone bad. Kjell, who was older (by 10 minutes) than me, always felt that he should be the mature brother, but sometimes he was the one who caused a prank to go sideways, and then I would state with glee, 鈥淣ow you鈥檝e done it!鈥�
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 One time, he taped a couple of batteries together and ran leads off of the batteries to the steel door handle on the door to our classroom. The teacher, of course, got a mild electric shock when she touched it, but it was enough of a shock to make her furious! Upon entering the classroom she didn鈥檛 ask who had done it. As per usual, she just grabbed one twin in each hand and marched us to the principal鈥檚 office. The principal called our dad asking him to pick us up from school, and while we waited I said, 鈥淣ow you鈥檝e done it!鈥�
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 But I must admit that there were also times when Kjell would look at me with a serious expression while admonishing me with that famous phrase. Our class in grade school was co-ed, and I had my eye on a cute little girl. The problem was that she could not tell Kjell and I apart, so she therefore didn鈥檛 want anything to do with either one of us. I got close to her in the school yard one time during recess, and while talking to her, I told her I was Kjell, and snuck a quick kiss. She became furious and tattled to the teacher that was watching the yard, who in turn confronted Kjell. My brother denied having even been close to her, so the teacher grabbed us both and marched us to the principal鈥檚 office. While we were waiting for our dad to pick us up, Kjell spoke the famous phrase, 鈥淣ow you鈥檝e done it!鈥�
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 We were very innovative and were able to conjure up many practical jokes. We usually did our pranks away from home, in an effort to avoid the wrath of our dad. There were many times when the 鈥減erfect鈥� opportunity would arrive, and we would perpetrate a prank on our older brother, Moritz, as often as possible.聽 One time, Kjell and I were determined to get even with Moritz, who had placed 鈥渓ife-like鈥� plastic human excrements in both our beds, and called our mother. Moritz kept his smoking habits away from our parents by hiding his pipe and tobacco in the wood pile inside the woodshed next to the house. Kjell and I got some small firecrackers, pulled them apart and mixed the contents with his pipe tobacco. Moritz snuck out after breakfast on a Saturday morning, went into the woodshed, loaded the bowl of his pipe and lit up. We had expected a 鈥渂oom,鈥� but instead the spiked tobacco blew up all over his face, and Moritz came bursting out of the woodshed spitting mad with his face all black and sooty! He came running upstairs and freaked out our mother when she saw him before he went into the bathroom to clean up. Kjell looked at me and said, 鈥淣ow you鈥檝e done it!鈥�
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Ole and Sven were having a good time at the bush party, when all of a sudden they were drenched by a torrential rainstorm followed by thunder and lightning. They ran for about 10 minutes in the pouring rain, and finally reached their car just as the rain let up. They jumped in the car and started it up. Ole put it in drive and brought the speed up to 40 kilometres per hour, while they were still guzzling beer. All of a sudden, an old man's face appeared in the passenger window and tapped lightly on it! Ole screamed out, "Yumpin Yimminie! Look out your window Sven! There's an old guy's face there!"
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Was it a ghost? The old man kept knocking, so Ole said, "Well, open the window a little and ask him what he wants!"
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Sven rolled his window down part way and asked, scared out of his wits, "What do you want?"
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The old man softly asked, "You have a smoke?" Sven, terrified, looked at Ole and said, "He wants a smoke!" "Well, offer him one! Hurry!" replied Ole.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Sven fumbled around with the pack and handed the old man a cigarette and yelled "Step on it!" rolling up the window in terror.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Now going about 80 kilometres an hour, they calmed down and Sven said, "What do you think of that?" Ole said, "I don't know. With the speed we were going, how could he be at the window? But we鈥檙e going faster now, so don't worry, we鈥檙e ok."
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Then all of a sudden there is another knock on the window and there is the old man again. "He鈥檚 back!" yelled Sven.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 "Well, see what he wants now!" yelled Ole.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Sven rolled down the window slightly and shakily said "Yes?"
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 "Do you have a light?" the old man quietly asked. Sven threw a lighter out of the window at him, rolled up the window and yelled to Ole, "Go faster!"
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 They were now going about 100 kilometres an hour according to the speedometer and still guzzling their beer, trying to forget what they had just seen and heard, when all of a sudden again, there is a knock on the window!
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 "Oh my God! He鈥檚 back!" 聽
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Sven rolled down the window and screamed, "What do you want now?" The old man gently replied, "Do you want some help getting out of the mud?鈥�
