Your father rubs his fingers along a reflective decal that he’s affixing to the window of your bedroom. The bubbles slowly work their way out from underneath it. The picture on the sticker is reversed, but you can see the firefighter and that it says “Baby In This Room.”

“I’m not a baby,” you say.

Your dad looks at you and says, “Well, yes, but son, we want the firefighters to know that, if there ever is a fire – which there will probably never be and you have nothing to be scared of – that they should break this window and save you no matter how hard this window is to get in to.”

Then he pulls a nail out of his pocket and starts nailing your window shut.Maybe you shouldn’t have slid down the roof last winter …

… nah. It was worth it. Next time you just need to know how to land.