Mar 29 2009
Finding Humor….
It used to be easy to find something to laugh at even if it was painful, especially if it was painful to someone else…
Take a friend of mine for instance, we were making rockets from a soda can, a bucket of water and a firecracker.
Drill a hole big enough to stick the fuse through in the bottom of an empty pop can that has the end cut out, put the open end facing down in a bucket of water, light the fuse and watch the can soar into the air….
Add one friend that decided to light the fuse while looking straight down at the can and you have a recipe for disaster that was hilarious! Or at least it was after we were sure he wasn’t hurt in a serious fashion. Nothing worse than the imprint of a pop can in the forehead, a back flip, and a spilled beer… if only they had video cameras then.
I don’t know who was more surprised, us not being able to scream that, that was a bad idea in time, or him seeing a Black Cat firecracker, with no burn time, propelling a pop can into his forehead, and attempting to put them both into orbit.
Thomas H. Forthe
