Childhood passtimes…
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• i dragged my mattress into the backyard and set fire to it just to see what it would look like
• we also did the whole drainage pipe thing, we'd sometimes wander and crawl through these for miles, mapping them out and finding ways to travel to different places (usually it was this place called "mott's 5 and 10", which was our favorite place to shoplift candy and toys). we'd steal flashlights from our houses and tear up t-shirts to make torches. one time our flashlight broke and my stupid friend dropped his torch while we were at least a mile into one of those things. that shit was terrifying, trying to find your way back through those labyrinthine tunnels... there was also a rumour we heard from the older kids about there being "pockets of natural gas" that were supposedly explosive. that made using torches pretty scary
• then we'd go to nearby creeks and capture crayfish, the bigger the better. we'd put them together in ladder-style tournaments in which they'd rip each other's arms and stuff of, and care for the champions...
• another thing we'd do is steal steak knives from our houses, then take them out in the woods, detach their handles, and put the blades on carefully prepared sticks and shoot these arrows from homemade bows from our treehouses
• one of our group got some shotgun shell primers from his older brother. we'd take aluminum arrows, unscrew the heads, fill their hollow bodies with powder, fit the primer on top, then tape a bb over that. we'd shoot them at trees and stuff. on impact the bbs would fire off the primer, which would explode the arrow
• or we'd make elaborate wooden swords using one of our friend's dad's workshop, then fuck each other up swordfighting
come to think of it, most of my childhood was spent making weapons