37 More Boys My Milkshake Has Brought to the Yard

Jonathan Millhauser
The Haven
Published in
3 min readFeb 2, 2023
Photo of a fenced-in backyard with somewhat dry grass and a weeping willow tree in the back
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash
  1. Boy whose high school class voted him “Most Likely to be Devoured by the Chupacabra”
  2. Boy who started a podcast instead of going to therapy
  3. Boy who looks just like that one actor from that one show
  4. Boy who challenged his orthodontist to trial by combat
  5. Boy whose diet consists only of graham crackers and depleted toner cartridges
  6. Boy who did it in the Library with the Candlestick
  7. Boy who brews his own kombucha in a haunted bog
  8. Boy who became an astronaut just so he could get the 15% employee discount at the NASA gift shop
  9. Boy who escalated tensions in the Middle East “ironically”
  10. Boy who got bitten by a radioactive spider and immediately got sick and died
  11. Boy with a Crayola crayon color named after him (“dipshit blue”)
  12. Boy who’s embroiled in a centuries-long rivalry between two noble families
  13. Boy who puts mayonnaise on a bagel
  14. Boy who calls vampires “Draculas”
  15. Boy who’s all too quick to remind you that his father is celebrated Container Store founder and CEO Robert Containerstore
  16. Boy who’s so self-confident, he does crossword puzzles in blood
  17. Boy who once lost a debate against a duck
  18. Boy who’s really nervous about asking out his crush because the last time he tried to talk to her she decapitated him with a samurai sword
  19. Boy who cheated on the SAT by having sex with the ACT
  20. Boy who puts hot sauce on everything not because he likes it but because it irritates his stepdad
  21. Boy who knows a lot more about Chinese mythology than he lets on
  22. Boy whose brunch was ruined by a rampaging Mimosasaur
  23. Boy who is quick to assure you that the pulsating chrysalis dangling from his neck is purely vestigial
  24. Boy who won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his steamy yet poignant Wolverine x Nigel Thornberry slash fic
  25. Boy who, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, believes Donkey Kong is a donkey
  26. Boy who was executed by the state for punching back after his little brother said “yellow punch buggy no punch backs”
  27. Boy who translated the screenplay for 27 Dresses into Dothraki
  28. Boy who pranked his karate instructor by surreptitiously placing an unstable uranium atom on the training dummy
  29. Boy who subscribes to PornHub “for the articles”
  30. Boy who doesn’t root for the Lakers because he thinks Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the villain from Aladdin
  31. Boy who can see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch (it’s because it has a lot of sugar in it)
  32. Boy who hunts werewolves but has yet to find one because they’re not real
  33. Boy with a new and frightening medical condition doctors are referring to as “spaghetti nipple”
  34. Boy whose dentist is furious with him because all his teeth got replaced with piano keys in a cartoon accident
  35. Buy who tragically drowned in a poorly executed attempt to fuck the Loch Ness Monster
  36. Boy whose ratio of mining to crafting is just outrageously bad
  37. Boy whose pastor is Optimus Prime

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