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True story:

Dad stored some firecrackers in a moving box in the attic (I know, right? Hot/going off/burning down the house/etc?) and when I was 8 or 9 I found them. And I stole a few packs, as I recall because there were actually quite a few of them, reasoning that they'd never be missed. And, being in cohutes with the local gang of kids my age decided this discovery was not only cool but lucrative so I decided to sell some and, as I recall others actually bought them from me.

One morning, at the busstop, standing among about a dozen kids waiting to be picked up and driven to school, some packs made an appearance ... then a match or two ... and suddenly firecrackers were going off. In the ensueing audible melee the flicking of the lit firecracker culminated in one sizzling and blue-printed (one doesn't forget things like this being the active flicker) landed on this girl's shoulder ... r-i-g-h-t ... u-n-d-e-r ... h-e-r ... E-A-R! For some reason, perhaps deus ex machina perhaps her quick reflexes perhaps someone elses quick reflexes I don't recall exactly, the firecracker ended up on the ground before it detonated.

I came this close to paying dearly for blowing off someone's ear if not at least permanently deafening them. Which, now that I think about it, could never top doing something as heinous as the other thing that almost happened around that same time in my life, growing up ...
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