I like this, but I feel like it raises questions. For example, the thing with butter. For me, that's clearly something my ma would recommend. It's my dad who would probably have taken me aside with some version of, "brace yourself, boy" and then tried to get me out of my jam by bending or breaking whatever jam I was in. Or let me stay there to think about how I shouldn't have gotten myself into the jam in the first place. Why is it that the dads didn't try to bend the bars first? Also, butter on wood? That's WD-40 time for sure. C'mon John.
The railings were made of some sort of metal, therefore butter is a little less absurd. The idea wasn't to make it seem like men were idiots and women were more logical. I just told it like it happened. I did add the "Butter, Really John?" Poor kid though, she was really, really scared. Also, the poor father, he felt so helpless. I can empathize with how hard that must have been.