Don’t Try This At Home
Sunday, April 11th, 2010When I was a kid, we had a lot more freedom. Our nation had this little document — a document which was primarily responsible for the fact that we became a great nation — called the Constitution of the United States. In it were encoded and enshrined the guiding principles of our nation.
As kids, we used our freedom to explore, to poke and prod, to dissect. As we got a little bit older — but we were still kids — we used our freedom to make out, some going so far as to make love and even to (after a fashion) make war. We sometimes got into fights with other kids. We sometimes — either deliberately or accidentally — blew things up. I remember I once accidentally set fire to a battleship by firing missiles shooting matches at it.
Apparently model glue and plastic are quite flammable.
I managed to get the fire out before it spread. But I could not get the lump that had been the battleship to come unstuck from the floor — it melded with the linoleum — and I could not hide the smell.
Boy, did I get a whipping!
