Posted by Mark - IN. on April 13, 2009 at 20:57:56 from (64.12.116.74):
In Reply to: Fire story posted by cj in wisconsin on April 13, 2009 at 05:29:16:
Oh yeah. Kids, stupid kids. Me and about four or five buddies when we were about 8 or so along the back fence along the woodline. I don't know who had the matches but it wasn't me cause I had no reason to have matches when I was 8. Honest, it wasn't me. But someone lit the dry grass and leaves along the fence and peed on it and put it out. And then lit it again and peed and put it out. That happened a few times and we all ran out of pee and couldn't put that last one out. Back then the fire department was all volunteer. Come to think of it, still are. When the volunteer guys showed up, not even the little fire trucks could get back into the woods. Good thing it was surrounded by corn fields and an orchard. It all grew back, and the rotted out stuff got cleaned out. Figure it was about 100 acres. All grew back though. One of those you just can't take back and never did again. We got the snot beat out of us for that and deserved it too. It don't get much stupider than that. I'm one of the reasons Mom had grey hair by the time she was 29. My brother was 10 and the other reason she had grey hair by the time she was 29, but I don't think he was there for that one. He was there for the dry hay field though, not me. That came from lighting some fire crackers around a hot 4th of July that someone gave him for doin chores around their place while they were on vacation for a week. Took the volunteer guys a long time to get there for that one too. Again, I wasn't involved but saw it unfolding like everyone else did. And I got beat with my brother for that one too for general purposes by Dad whom I was with at the time. I think at that point Dad knew that I would've been in on it if I wasn't with him, and intent was close enough to being involved for him. Yep, I got beat and would've deserved it too if I had been there.
I ever tell you about the time we tried to de-stink a skunk and keep it for a pet? That nearly got us killed by all of the neighbors, and Mom and Dad. Just one of the many times our crying mother was gonna drive us down to the orphanage and just drop us off and drive off and leave us.
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