Posted by Fritz Maurer on March 07, 2012 at 21:39:18 from (216.137.136.168):
On the playground in school there would be fights, someone would say, "I'm gonna cream you, man!" This led me to think that someone was about to pummeled into a bloody mass. The thought of building a fire under somebody never occurred to me. Another playground game we played was 'Smear the Queer', which seemed to dovetail with the process of being "creamed". When I was 7 or 8 years old, my dad would be reading the obits (something else I never understood until years later) and I heard him tell my mom that Mr. Jones was going to be cremated. I was horrified. How does this happen? A road roller? A giant blender? "Why would they do that?" I asked my dad. "It's what Mr. Jones wanted" he said. While I was pondering why Mr. Jones would want such a gruesome ending, dad added," Then they take the remains and put them in a jar, called a urn." Okay, now that was just sickening. I knew what some people did with urns, put them on their mantles and such. Why would someone want a jar of guts in their house? I didn't want to hear any more, I went outside to play. Grown-ups sure did strange things. I suppose what added to my confusion was the fact that I knew what it meant to 'incinerate'. Believe me, I knew what an incinerator was. We had a gas one in our basement. I am the world's record holder for household goods disposed of in an incinerator, including some things my mom didn't want disposed of. I loved to put pots and pans in there and catch the molten aluminum in the ash pan (my first foundry). Nobody really paid much attention, they thought I was such a helpful little boy, always wanting to burn the garbage. However, they began to pay attention when the gas bill came. The only other gas appliance down there was a hot water tank. The bill was 400.00. In 1972. In July. My dad was as hot as my little ash-pan castings. Another term I had trouble with was "late". The late Mr. Jones. The first time I heard it, I wondered what he was late for. Later, I thought late meant young. You know, a late model tractor. Mr. Jones was born in 1908, he was therefore "early"; born in the early part of the century. What was late about it? Grown-ups sure have strange ideas.
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