At an early age I learned the wonder of the rubber band. With a handful of rubber bands you can wage a surprisingly intricate battle with your brothers and friends. If you put a rubber band on the tip of your index finger and pull it back as if you were shooting an arrow, it becomes a formidable projectile that can create an immediate sting. We would wage wars of hide and seek using the rubber bands to take each other out from our hiding places while in seek mode.
A discovery Dennis made was that a rubber band is deadly to a fly. While it might cause a sting for human beings it is right down disaster for a fly. A fly hit dead on by a rubber band becomes quite a squish mark on any window. I can see now as an adult why Mom didn't want us shooting flies off the kitchen counter but you know we would do all the shooting we could while her back was turned. We would roam the house looking for flies in every window and corner. There were times when the windows looked utterly ghastly after a successful hunt. When the flies were all gone for the day we'd simply go back to shooting each other. Yucchhhh. Now I”m having flashbacks of all those contaminated rubber bands hitting me in the face close to my mouth.
I continue the tradition of rubber band shooting still, trying to shoot the grandchildren as they scream and run away from the soft weapon aimed at them. They try to shoot me back, but are still trying to get the proper positioning of a rubber band to the finger.
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As kids of Mr. Rick Dean, you can bet we learned at a young age this very game. I remember this little game vividly, as we would shield ourselves around the family room furniture and attempt to have our rubber band war with each other. It was all fun and games until one of us missed the target and shot poor innocent mom in the eye. Luckily, her eye lid caught it, so the rubber band did not hit her eyeball, but the rubber band got caught on her eyelash and she blinked over and over again quickly as her eyes defense mechanism. I know it might sound like it hurt, but it was also a quit a funny site to behold. I had never seen anyone blink so many times. All us girls burst out in laughter, which of course, made her even more upset. Needless to say, we never shot rubber bands in your presence again.
I totally blame you dad for that bad behavior....haha!
What ever happend the the phrase, "innocent children"? I guess you cover this with the disclaimer "We weren't angels", I am surprised that none of you ever ended up in jail...or is that story coming on next weeks post? Love you so an wouldn't change a thing about you!
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