The childhood hammer story: Hank 'tried to kill' John (2008)
story · status: told 2× · last event: retold (2013-12-13)
In 2008 John phoned their mom to settle, jokingly, which brother was worse as a child: she confirmed that little Hank went at John with a hammer. She told the story again in 2013. Both tellings are comic.
Told alongside: Five-year-old John lies down in the Miami airport: 'it's just too much' (childhood)
About: Sydney Green
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) | told | John phones their mom, who confirms that Hank tried to kill John with a hammer when they were little, while John's worst acts were cough syrup on the bedspread and an over-hard hug. (playful) | Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer 00:01:24 |
| 2013-12-13 | retold | Sydney retells how small Hank, unable to talk yet, got tired of John yelling at him and took a hammer to him. (playful) | Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday 00:02:04 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — Sydney Green: On the phone, the brothers' mom says it was the other way around (Hank tried to kill John) and answers yes when John asks whether he ever tried to kill Hank. — 00:01:40
- 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — John sums up that, according to their mom, the meanest thing Hank did to him was try to kill him with a hammer, and his own was spilling red cough syrup on Hank's bedspread and hugging him too hard. (playful) — 00:02:33