When I was about 7 years old and my
sister was 9, we found some kind of fireworks while going through old things
from the garage. We were searching for nothing
in particular. I
guess we needed something to entertain us. After we found the fireworks, we hid
it under our beds. My sister and I quietly waited for our parents to go out
somewhere.
As
soon as our parents went out, we took out the match that we found earlier, took
a strike at the firework and started fooling around with it. At first it was
just very sparkly
but as time went
by it continued to burn. Finally, we let go of the fireworks and dropped it to
the ground. The little patch of dry grass caught on fire and started to spread.
Thank God
our neighbor saw
the smoke right away and cooled it down with the water hose
That
day, my sister and I got into the biggest trouble we could ever imagine, our
first time of being grounded. After that incident we learned to be cautious off
things and
distinguish danger, from
fun.