Caught My Boy Playing With Gas - Page 2

**msiert** · #16 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 03:30 PM

That is a great idea Greg, I can see the terror in his eye's right now.

GTV-GR · #17 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 04:09 PM

well guby has the christmas gift and ecarillo the punishment-chemistry teacher little talk.16 yold shouldn't be punished but guided.

Pat Braden · #18 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 06:33 PM

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Murray,

Glad your son is alright. I am amazed that most of us get through childhood when I look back at the stupid stuff we did. I had some High school friends that raised blowing up things to an art form. They found a way to purchase dynamite in the fifties. In the old days you could buy dynamite at a local gardening store to use on mundane things like tree stumps. I went with them a couple of times to set off the stuff. They were smart kids and knew how to prepare the charges. The first time I was in the front seat driving while they were cutting the dynamite and drilling a hole in it to place the cap was scary. They said worry about the caps not the dynamite. We never did any real damage. A quarter stick in box of baking powder was impressive. Years later working on logging crew that routinely used dynamite to create holes under logs I had enough experience to prepare the charges myself.

He will remember how you handle the punishment more than the danger he was in at the time.

**CanAmBob** · #19 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 06:46 PM

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I don't know how most of us survived childhood, but for certain if our children did what we did with today's swing of the pendulum they would all be in jail and the parents would owe their pay check to the State.

A member of my family and his friends blew up a lifeguard tower and were the victims of a fraternity hazing incident where one of the pledges died, as I recall, which involved dousing the pledges with oil, rolling them in dirt, feeding them cod liver, and making them walk home at 2:00 a.m. They also had a little adventure tearing up a few out-of-state hotel rooms while playing on an athletic tour.

I'm sure all of us have skeletons in our family closets...

**Gordon Raymond** · #20 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 07:42 PM

Does this make Alfa owners SURVIVORS, Bob? As you mention, many of us (you and me!) are not teenagers anymore, but still like to drive those old cars fast! Did it this afternoon with my son in my Ausca Giulia/GTA spider as it was sunny and 69 degrees. Did my 4 to 5 shift at 6800 and my son said, "Gee dad, NOTHING sounds like this one!"

**CanAmBob** · #21 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 08:01 PM

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Does this make Alfa owners SURVIVORS, Bob? As you mention, many of us (you and me!) are not teenagers anymore, but still like to drive those old cars fast! Did it this afternoon with my son in my Ausca Giulia/GTA spider as it was sunny and 69 degrees. Did my 4 to 5 shift at 6800 and my son said, "Gee dad, NOTHING sounds like this one!"

**msiert** · #22 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 05:35 AM

No need to apologize................ I'm enjoying all the posts let it lead where it may.

One day I was having Colin follow me to a mechanic's shop, he was driving the VW Bug and I was driving the Spider. I forgot he was behind me as I took a sharp corner fast causing the rear to come loose a bit. I looked in the rear mirror just in time to see Colin going straight off the road trying to keep up (the old Bug just couldn't do the corner at that speed).

I sometimes forget that I'm setting an example for the boy.

**Farace** · #23 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 07:21 AM

How did we survive childhood indeed. My friend and I worked afternoons after school at the local pharmacy and had access to sulfur and saltpeter. Bought a mortar and pestle and ground up charcoal briquettes and we had all the makings of black powder, which we then used to make our own fireworks. I remember one time taping little packets of black powder inside parts of a balsawood model house and putting a cup of gasoline in the middle before lighting it on fire. (We heard the gas boiling at one point.) Being honors students didn't stop us from doing stupid things, it just let us do stupid things that required more thought. It's amazing we didn't become a footnote in the Darwin Awards. (My friend is a high school chemistry teacher now.) I'm going to have to keep an eye on my son as he gets to that age; it's probably in his genes (he's seven now).

Maybe you could have your son volunteer a few weekends in a burn ward.

**msiert** · #24 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 07:59 AM

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Being honors students didn't stop us from doing stupid things, it just let us do stupid things that required more thought. .

**msiert** · #25 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 08:09 AM

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well guby has the christmas gift and ecarillo the punishment-chemistry teacher little talk.16 yold shouldn't be punished but guided.

**Gordon Raymond** · #26 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 08:57 AM

Guided is absolutely the correct word. Curious individuals make up LEADERS. All the rest are followers to one degree or another. One of the reasons I have loved building race engines, not necessarily cars, is the "By guess and by golly" aspect. Many of the great developments with race engines and breathing, were done WITHOUT the aid of computers and flow benches! I have an Ausca test engine from 1967 that was only used on a dyno to develop the porting (high, small port) used on the GTAm engines much later. A single plug 1600, by guess and by golly, it's power pulls exceeded the big valve GTA's of the time, with better low end torque. If Ron Neal had not been guided, and followed up on his curious nature, his knowledge would not be in demand by the NasCar team engine builders today. Where do you think that power and long life of those engines came from? A curious man. Guide them as well as you possibly can!

**Gubi** · #27 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 09:06 AM

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Exactly..............

All the boys invoved in making the Napalm are in the top 10% of their class. Maybe someday they will become Community Organizers.

**aldo** · #28 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 02:58 PM

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Cheryl you know we may need a new topic in this forum something like "dumb and scary things we did as kids"
I am sure there are some hair raising stories in Alfista land. The only problem is it may give kids some ideas. But on second thought kids don't read this bb.

**eight-o-one** · #29 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 04:55 PM

So is this what I have to look forward to with my twin 13 yr.old boys?,,,,Ed K.

**CanAmBob** · #30 (**permalink**) 11-09-2009, 04:55 PM

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Count me out. I've got a few that I'm pretty sure the cops are still looking for me.