Burned the Jail!!
Posted on Jul 23, 2007
When Darrell and I were about 8 & 9 years old, they had an old jailhouse no longer used, it had a lot of straw on the floor, and when we 'discovered' it there was a large scoop shovel in it. We went back to the cafe and got as many eggs as we could carry, went back, set the scoop up against the wall, stood back and tried to see how many times we could hit it! We hit it many times until we ran out of eggs. Then we started a small fire in the straw, let it get up a bit and beat it out with the shovel...great fun!!!! A little bigger next time, bigger it got, but we beat it out, Gotta have bigger still! we let it get quite a bit bigger, but when we tried to beat it out, the fire and straw flew forward catching more on fire so it quickly got away from us....home we ran!!! A little while later the Sheriff came in and said Duane out from under that bed, Darrell out of that closet!! How the heck did he know where we were hiding?? We came out of our respective hiding places, with mom and dad there too, he asked us why we set the jail on fire....you know what? Darrell has always been the better liar...and still is!!! He spoke up and said we were trying to fry some eggs on a shovel for a bum! of course I nodded assent! The Sheriff nodded to mom and dad, and told them there were eggs fried onto the shovel! Mom went and looked, came back and told the Sheriff 8 eggs were missing from the case! What did the bum look like? I don't know...a man!!! And we were again off the hook without a licking!!!
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