as a kid, there was always.... someone you know who would be considered the true "bad influence" that parents have unrelenting nightmares about.....well there was a kid named steve...i think he was a little older than me...i went to catholic school and he went to public...so we , i think lived in the same little setting where everyone rented a small house....i do remember deers hangings from trees during hunting season.....i digress......this was the kid who tried to get this kid (about 4th or 5th grade) to chew pine tree sap because it was just like gum-now i was a dumb kid, but the sap smelled like pine-sol...so i told him to chew it first...the he tried to tell me to put sugar in it...again i said you try it first....never happened..
i got a bb gun and we went out to the forest on day (that was everyone's backyard) and decided to play a game of target-us so i was at the bottom of the hill with my bb gun and then steve went to the top of the hill oh yeah, he had a slingshot...hmmmmm...guess i didn't learn to apply logic all the time...so as i shot bb's up the hill they lost velocity and bounced off him like a little underhanded throw pebble...conversely as he shot rocks with the slingshot downhill, they by no means lost speed and probably picked some up.....so as this mis-match went on until as i was pumping the gun, stock down as i pulled the lever action up and i turned my head right into a rock that hit by my eye and bled just a little bit....now i'm gonna get it...how do explain the eye to my mom......going back i came up with a nifty plan....i got home and got to my sisters room and snagged a nylon and cut it so the stocking would fit over my head ...so when dinner came i put the stocking over my head and sat down to dinner with my mother and sister...to eat, i lifted the stocking enough to spoon in some dinner....the "why are you wearing that??? i'm in a new club and i hafta wear this for a week......(my sister is looking and wondering where the stocking came from?)well that didn't go over as well as i thought it would....and i had to take it off....so there was a small cut but i was getting a black eye and was a bit swollen....needless to say i got into trouble....
smiles.....