Doing crazy things as a child...

I'm saying I had a normal childhood. Well, except for the time I caught my mothers rocking chair on fire! We were living in New York at the time so I must have been 4 or 5 years old.
Both of my parents were smokers and I'm guessing the ash tray, matches and cigarettes were on the lamp table (yes, lamp table - one piece of furniture) next to the rocking chair.
I'm not sure if my grandfather used a garden hose to put the fire out or a bucket of water from the kitchen. Furniture back then was often stuffed with straw.
After a few hundred house fires, someone decided it was a bad idea to stuff chairs with straw.

Hey... what do I know about these things.
It could have been worse !!


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I used to make cubby houses (play house) for me and my little sister.

Out of two chairs and a blanket.....it was the littlest things that pleased us back then laugh
Oh lord Jim, my son did that too, well not the floors but the TV and the walls.
Growing up as a child I remember we had a mixture of animals cats dogs you name it.

I remember my mother telling me that we had this mother cat who had had kittens and I had dunked one of the kittens in the toilet.
I must've been around 2 to 3 years old at the time.My mother wasn't very happy with me for doing so.
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