Free Style Childhood Memories

I saw it on TV. Many many times this was the last thing some of my friends heard as disater desended upon them. My friend Ron was practically an expert on debuncking TV myth by the time he got out of the hospital and graduated high school. For me TV was the great repository of factual theory, not to be confused with fact, a fact I came to grips with shortly after my forty- fourth birhtday. Any way as i said my friend ron was practically an expert, being an expert would not allow frequent visits to the emergency room. Had Ron been an expert he would have know that pouring gasoline on his bicycle tires and lighting them on fire was cool as i had indicated it would be, but might actually cause painful third degree burns to certain ares of the extreme upper inner thigh region. In my defense third degree burn were not shown on TV. a curious feature of Rons neighborhood up until he moved away from home and this town was that his house was not included in the city limits. You could look on a map of LaGrande and see this block in the middle of town that was not included in the city limits. We interperted this to mean we could shoot guns right out the window of his bedroom. His father Herb relieved us of that notion whith the forst sound of gunfire errupted from Rons window the day we graduated from hunter safety. "Jesus !^$&($% Christ what the *%^& do think you rotten little sons of (&*&%^% are doing you scared the living @%$$ out of me fire guns in the house like that give me those." With that he took away two of our three guns. I was devestated, but my memory served up a rememdy right away. "Say you know your dad didn't say we couldn't shoot guns. he was mostly pissed because they were so loud" Ron turned with that look i loved so much in a friend, anticipation of a brilliant idea, some called it a dumb stare, but i knew what it was eager anticipation. "What if we had a silencer" I said. "Yah? where we gonna get a silencer?"Ron asked. "I know how to make one" I explained that if we took his pillow and wrapped it tightly around the muzzle of the gun it would act a a silencer." He was hoooked, "Thats a great idea!" was all he said as he grabbed his pillow off the bed. we wrapped the pillow tightly around the muzzle eased it out the window and BOOM!. I had never heard anything so loud in my life all i could think was there must of been trouble on the sound stage of Bonaza that week because what i saw on TV didn't sound anything like that. through the smoke and feathers i made my way quickly to an exit. the last thing i heard as I left by the second story window was Ron screaming in pain "HE SAW IT ON TV.......ON TV DAD!" As a fourty four year old man it is good to sit back and chuckle about the stupid thing you have done because you saw it on TV.