My brother and I used to build the little towns, but we were a little more dangerous. When my parents would leave on Fri nights we would take shoe boxes and build little towns in the fireplace. After drawing little windows and doors on them we would take little plastic army men and place them all around. Then we would light the town on fire!! How we never burned down the house I'll never know. We watched the boxes burn, and the army men melt, and sometimes would take squirt bottles and play firemen.

Now being an adult and knowing that those things don't just disappear, I wonder why we didn't get in trouble for doing that, or maybe I forgot that part. But I know if I went to clean out the ashes and found melted plastic and half burnt army men, there were be an interrogation!!

My next question to myself is, how old were we when they would leave us alone in the house??