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I remember this kid who lived down the street from us when we were kids.  His name was Gino Silva and he was the truest definition of “juvenile delinquent” that I’d ever met.  Well, one day, my brother and Gino and some other kids had found some type of large lizard which Gino had decided to keep as a pet.

Well, when they looked at it up close, it looked as if a bunch of ticks (or some other clingy parasite) had gathered on its neck.  Apparently, when boys find something like this, they need to incorporate their passion for burning things to remedy the situation.  In short, they tried to use a lighter to burn the little buggers off the neck of the reptile.  No, it didn’t sound smart before they did it and it just ended up making the lizard angry.  Sure, the things jumped off but it was pretty unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, Gino must have gotten bored with the whole thing because he decided to do something else with a different lighter.  He stuck it under the seat of my brother’s pants while Chris was bending over looking at the lizard.  Um, that was also something that didn’t sound smart.  The next thing I knew was that Chris was jumping up and down and running around while grabbing at the underside of the seat of his pants.  Gino “came to the rescue” by kicking Chris repeatedly in the butt to try to put the fire out.  The fire was extinguished and everybody just went back to goofing off, but I remember seeing the 1.5″ hole that was created.

Honestly, now.  What sort of idiot intentionally sets another kid’s pants on fire!?

I’m starting a new thing on my blog.  I’m going to occasionally write about an event that happened in Long Long Ago time.  There really isn’t a particular reason for this, other than to just get it written.  Maybe it’ll be a conversation starter for some friends.  Maybe my family members will read it and say, “I never knew that!”  Maybe my kids will find it in Google’s cache 20 years from now and say, “My dad was an idiot.”