But he didn't walk into the house. He went over to the empty hose roll next to the garage. Their dad simply intended to squeeze the remaining water off the slip and slide rather than leave the thing out in the sun to dry.
"If I leave it out, they'll just goof off and play slip and slide instead of doing the yard work", he reasoned.
While Dustin watched with a hand over his mouth to keep from laughing out loud, his father tossed the heap of elongated Ty to the ground and looked for the end.
"Where the heck's the end? Oh, there it is" said their dad and to Dustin's delight, he saw him take the end of rubbery Ty that was his toes and thread it through a loop on the empty cylinder then press a button and start the motor within the cylinder.
"Dustin!" he heard Ty plead with him telepathically.
But as rubber Ty started winding around the cylinder, their father fished around among the many folds of 30 foot long Ty and found the end that was Ty's head. He threaded that end through a loop in the car's trailer hitch.
Just then, the phone rang inside. His dad started jogging toward the door and said "Turn that off when it's almost all rolled" to Dustin.
"Sure Dad" Dustin said with a smirk.
"Dustin!" Ty pleaded for his half brother to stop the machine and unroll him.
But the prospect was too delicious for Dustin to resist. The machine rumbled on, turning the hose wheel at a speed that wound a foot or so of Ty every second. Soon enough, there was no slack in Ty. And to Dustin's delight, the machine just kept going, stretching Ty and thinning him out in the process. The relentless machine pulled and pulled at Ty who tried to resist but couldn't even slow the machine.
"Dustin!"
But Dustin only smirked with delight at Ty's misfortune. A minute rolled by, then another, then five more. While Dustin laughed, Ty went from a 30 foot long flat mat of boy flesh to a 300 foot long strand of boy string wrapped fifty times around the hose wheel. At times, Dustin thought he could see parts of Ty and he felt his shorts tenting watching those parts stretch as Ty changed from ribbon to rope.
Dustin finally turned off the machine and untied the other end of Ty from the car bumper. He rolled it around the wheel and neatly tied it up.
Finally, Dustin's father came back outside. He had completely forgotten about slip and slide Ty. He told Dustin to finish the yard work and that he'd be back in a half hour.