Saturday, 04 July 2009

• Fireworks Stories

  First off, I want to wish everyone a Happy Independence Day. Don't get yourself blown up. That brings me to my topic. Many will post today about what the 4th of July means to our country. I want to talk about the fireworks today! Typical guy thing aye? I'd like to share a few fireworks stories with you. Some show my stupidity as a kid First I'll share what I used to think was coolest. We would get bottle rockets and go to a lake. We would light the bottle rocket holding it and right as the fuse was about to make it to the firework, we would aim it down at the lake. It would dive deep into the water and explode. It was especially cool at night when you could see the flash light up the water. One of the times I guess a fish got in the way and was stunned because it came floating to the top. It later swam away. This bring me to another time when some of us were fishing and we had some firecrackers with us. After fishing a bit we got bored cuz we were only catching these little bream. I decided to take one of the little bream I caught and stick a firecracker in it's mouth and light it. BOOM! Yes it blew the poor fishes head off. Give a bag of firecrackers to a kid and the sky is the limit to what he will find to blow up Speaking of blowing things up, we used to get dud firecrackers and get the gun powder out of them and make homemade M-80's. Don't know if they still sell these, but they were banded. They were MUCH stronger than firecrackers. We would take about 3 inches of a pants coat hanger and get a candle to melt wax on one end. Then fill it up with the gun powder we got from the firecrackers.Then stuff a little kleenex at the end as not to ignite the gun powder when we melted the hot wax to close up the other end. We then wrapped it with tape to make it tight and got an ice pick to poke a whole in the middle for the fuse. MAN did those things blow stuff up....what was I thinking. Once I put a bunch of coke cans all over the bomb and lit it to see how high and far the cans would be thrown. As I ran from lighting the fuse and was about 30 feet away, it exploded and I felt something hit my leg. It was the melted wax and it had acted like a bullet and smacked my leg. Man did that hurt. It let a mark for weeks on my thigh. I can't imagine it a kid had been there and was hit in the face or something. I think I stopped making them after that.
    Once I was at a friends house shooting fireworks off his dad had gotten him. It was for New Years so the grass was dead and dry. We had this buzzbomb thing. It looked like a starter for a car but had propellers sticking out the side. You were to sit it down on a flat surface and light it and run the directions said. ROFL....I can see why. That thing took off with sparks and fire going everywhere. Scared us to death and it landed right in the middle of a neighbors yard. Yep you guessed it. The yard went up in flames. We rushed over to put the fire out but by the time we were done, it had burned a 5 foot circle in their lawn. They weren't home and we weren't telling a soul! There was another one of those in the bag. We didn't shoot it off. Don't know what Richard ever did with it LOL.
  Some crazy neighborhood kids used to have roman candle fights. I stayed away from that. I didn't want balls of fire coming at me. I didn't like roman candles cuz my first experience with one was not too good. I was told to hold it and after it was lit aim it at the sky. Well thats what I did. Only I aimed the wrong end up. It started shooting sparks and balls of fire at my feet. I dropped it and ran and with that everyone scattered cuz it was shooting balls of fire everywhere. MAN, I didn't think it would EVERY stop. I stay away from fireworks now and let other folks mess with them.
   Now I KNOW you all have some good fireworks stories. What are some of your most memorable ones? Care to share them with me? Hope you all have a happy and safe 4th of July. God bless you all!
  ~Grampy~
  
  

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