Concurrence with the Roadrunner/Coyote picture. We knew it was just a cartoon.
And if I had tried it, my mother would have stopped me. Mom was always paying attention, even when I was... er, even when my brother was dragging a chair across the kitchen floor to get the cookies on top of the fridge. Momma didn't EVER get distracted by something and forget where we were at all times. She might be deep in a phone conversation (what we used instead of facebook) but she was still aware.