I can relate to so much of this thread! I am always wondering how fast my kids would disown me if only they knew . . .
My dad o”h was a master. When my sister was young she spent a month in the hospital. My dad brought home some of those glass IV bottles (this was hundreds of years ago, mind you). He drilled a hole in the top, added gravel, a plant and two goldfish! He hung it up on my sisters IV pole without telling the nurses. What a riot that was!