> G wrote: > > I grew up with full access to the family machine shop, which was > equipped to build just about anything. Being inventive, I came up > with the idea to make a carbide cannon.. carbide being an easy > source of acetylene gas, which delivers excellent explosive > energy.
> Shortly my neighbor arrived in his pickup truck.. shall we say... > "very upset"? His dairy farm was 1 1/4 miles away and we had > managed to deliver the concrete filled beer can through the roof > of his milking barn.. with a barn full on cows, at milking > time... [can you start counting how many bad decisions it took > to do that?] > All members of the cannon shooting "club" were given the task of > rebuilding the neighbors barn.. and buying the materials to do > the job, with a strict time schedule. Which we did. And thus you each learned there is a consequence and responsibility for chosen actions - something that seem lacking in current USA culture. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
