Life stories

The other night I was visiting a friend. There were several of us sitting on his back patio having a chat over a few intoxicants. The evening was cool and still and we chatted about politics, religion and the environment. With out any waring a loud BANG rang out over the suburb. From the way the sound rattled around I guessed it was about 500m away from my friends house. “Do you think it was a gun shot” one of the others asked. I didn’t think so. It was too loud, too much percussion.

I very much suspect it was one of the local kids experimenting. I know I blew a few things up when I was a kid. We laughed as we and exchanged stories of blowing things up and other dangerous experiments we did as kids. These experiments were a memorable part of growing up as a geek.

I wonder if those involved in the explosion we heard will be sitting around in twenty or thirty years telling the tale of the night the let of the big one.