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Yessiree Bob...errrrrrrrrr...Charles!!! LOLOL! *wink*
; ; ; Jackie ;)
In a message dated 1/15/2006 8:59:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, daphatbell  daphatbell.com writes:And I betcha sticking to it, right? 
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:10:52 EST, CRAZYDOVEaol.com took time to say the following:
C> Ummmmmmm..Joe..which Jackie...???? Not that I am gonna tell WHAT I do in the dark..but it involves alot of stumbling and cursing, at least that's MY story!!!!!!!!!!!! *BG*
C> Jackie ;)
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2006-01-16 23:54:27 |
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Jackie.................
About 60 years ago (I was much younger then !) I was a brand new Boy
Scout and had sworn to Do My Duty !
WW11 was about over and every little town had a War Surplus Store. Our
local store was in an old mill and had an inventory larger than Macy's
at the mall.
Included in his inventory were large baskets of photographic type flash
bulbs, the metal bases so corroded they were considered worthless. Old
Tony, the owner, was selling these bulbs for about ten cents a hundred
and the market was down, way down !
Alongside the flash bulbs he had a couple of barrels of old military
issue "D" cells for the old military flashlights. They too, were badly
corroded so you really had to do some scraping to make an electrical
contact, and you never knew if they were completely dead or not.
My buddy and I figured that with the right contraption, and a "D"cell,
we could cork off the flashbulbs. Not owning a camera we had no use for
the bulbs except to speerment ! We rounded up a couple of nickels,
bought a nickels worth of the bulbs and the batteries, perfected our
contraption, and waited until way after dark, way after !
The WPA had built a dam across a stream not far from our homes, and
below the dam for a mile or so there was a two wheel track road,
probably put there so the maintenance crew could clean up the debris
that went over and around the dam when the ice went out in the spring.
The little road was kept neatly packed during the summer when it was
used as the local lovers lane. It wandered along the stream in the
brush and trees that lined the stream and made an ideal lovers lane.
It was alway good sport for us kids to sneak down there very quietly
and bang on the trunk lid of a parked car. It varied, but you could
alway expect some kind of "citement" before running like hell to keep
from getting caught !
All in the interest of science we sneaked down there with our new cache
of goodies from Tony's.
Once we got close to a car we put our plan in motion and stuck the new
tool up by a window where we corked off a flashbulb.
If you really want to know what people do in the dark I'm in a position
to answer your questions.
My only regret in gaining all this knowledge is that we didn't have a
camera. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your point of view,
the couples in the cars had no idea we didn't use a camera. I never
told until just now !!!
I saw my "Duty" and did it, as any good Boy Scout should.
hee hee hee
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Yessiree
Bob...errrrrrrrrr...Charles!!! LOLOL! *wink*
; ; ;
Jackie ;)
And I betcha sticking to it, right?
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:10:52 EST, aol.com">CRAZYDOVEaol.com took time to say
the following:
C> Ummmmmmm..Joe..which Jackie...???? Not that I am gonna tell
WHAT I do in the dark..but it involves alot of stumbling and cursing,
at least that's MY story!!!!!!!!!!!! *BG*
C>; Jackie ;)
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