Loved the story, a lot of people, especially young people don't remember the good ole days of airplane glue, ,my mother in law says you can't buy iodine over the counter anymore either, someone else mentioned spray paint can't be bought over the counter, chap stick will soon follow. <laughing> > [Original Message] > From: <KIMBLEKP@aol.com> > To: <elkimble@charter.net>; <ARMSTRONG-L@rootsweb.com>; <MSWKY@aol.com>; <evabellekimble@yahoo.com>; <JonesHall@aol.com>; <kimblejc@msn.com>; <pharmdudeil@hotmail.com>; <uffda41@charter.net> > Date: 3/2/2008 9:15:03 AM > Subject: [ARMSTRONG] #2 > > At Eddie Jansen's grocery store in our village, you could purchase a tube of > model glue, about the size of a large tube of toothpaste, for a nickel. > Most kids of today think that you can no longer buy it over the counter > because some kids sniffed it, getting high. My buddy Dick and I know that is not > the true reason. > It was perhaps the most combustible material ever invented. I think that is > what is in those napalm bombs in war movies. > Dick and I bought a large tube one summer night. We walked two block to sit > atop a mountain of dirt on the site of a new church abuilding. > Overlooking the road, we waited until sundown. > When no cars were coming we spread a liberal line of glue across the road > and waited for a victim. > When the next car was a half block away, I lit it. > Little did I think that flames three stories high would result. Screeching > tires braking to stop just feet away from the wall of flames. > I do not believe that my wide eyes ever beheld such a scene. > I did the sensible thing. I ran like hell. Behind me I could hear the > cursing of a man, very angry. > Although we were innocent occasionally, Dick and I were blamed for these > kind of things in Southern View, every time. > Ken Kimble > 3/1/2008 > > > > **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. > (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-du ffy/ > 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ARMSTRONG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message