One day my First Sergeant called me in

and told me he had gotten a call from my father asking me about the date I had returned from leave.

"What's that all about?" he asked.

I said I'd find out and called Dad. He reported to me that the neighborhood kids had tossed some kind of IED into the neighbor's new in-ground swimming pool and cracked it. He wanted to make sure I had gotten back OK from leave and was properly signed into the battery because he knew I was probably a likely suspect.

When I explained what the call as all about to Top he said that he had handled a couple of calls like that over the years.

Then he laughed. "Blew up the guy's pool, huh? Years ago we had a guy accused of something like that on leave. He as at the battery and the incident happened in Oregon if I remember. The call came from a police chief. He had been here when the incident occurred also."

I made this post because yesterday someone complained about the fireworks and I warned them of the consequences of getting on the wrong side of the kids. 

To find out why the blog is pink just cut and paste this: http://piccoloshash.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-feminine-side-blog-stays-pink.html NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED IN THE WRITING OF TODAY'S ESSAY