To: Morgana
"...dousing a soccer ball with gasoline, setting it ablaze, and then kicking it around the yard..." Sigh. Boys with fire. It is always boys with fire. It has such a draw for us.
4 posted on
06/21/2022 12:50:01 PM PDT by
rlmorel
(Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
To: rlmorel
My favorite childhood toys were firecrackers, BB guns and matches, in any combination thereof.
7 posted on
06/21/2022 12:52:54 PM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
To: rlmorel
And blowing stuff up! I’m 73 and I still love it.
15 posted on
06/21/2022 1:03:05 PM PDT by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: rlmorel
Boys with fire
In adulthood it becomes an outdoor kitchen with a firepit if one is not careful.
To: rlmorel
Golfers lost balls and we found them and set them ablaze with lighter fluid. Lots of rubber bands inside then which snapped as they burned.
Or start fires at the dump and shoot rats as they scurry.
The class of 2050 will be remembering a different sort of good old days, imo. Such as: Remember when we weren't hungry all the time? Those days were sweet.
21 posted on
06/21/2022 1:16:00 PM PDT by
Born in 1950
(Anti left, nothing else.)
To: rlmorel
Yeah, but I think things like this are more likely when you just tell a boy “never play with matches” versus taking them camping and teaching them how to actually handle fire safely.
They’re going to mess with it even if you tell them not to, might as well teach them to mess with it in a safer way.
To: rlmorel
Here's Dominic helping the other one to light the soccer ball.
42 posted on
06/21/2022 2:06:06 PM PDT by
caww
(O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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