Realizing what I would have done
For various reasons, there's a coffee can with a small hole cut into the top of the lid sitting besides the front porch of both places I sleep.
Because it's pertinent, I should mention that the coffee cans are also filled with the leftovers of used cigars and cigarettes.
Snow does accumulate inside, as does a bit of rain... Basically, the lid is never taken off those cans -- they're just discarded -- and they're a good distance from the front door for a reason. When I left earlier today, there were some neighbor kids playing around the front lawn, or what's left of it. 30 minutes later when I came back, I noticed the can had disappeared while I was gone.
I thought I was losing it until I put together where it had gone, and even once I figured it out I wasn't exactly reassured. I don't know what they're planning on doing with it, but when I think about the havoc I could have wreaked at that age if armed with a large container of soggy cigarette butts...
Update: Found the can. And the contents. Strewn about the back of 4 adjoining lots, with spray paint thrown in for good measure. Unamused.
Posted by drunkenbatmanMarch 16, 2005, at 10:15 PM
Comments (8)
Posted by: Twist at March 16, 2005 11:51 PM
Oh man the possibilities. Be thankful that the 4th of July is still a while away. Made a bunch of home-made firecrackers (okay so the were more like pipe-bombs than your traditional firecrackers) in my day but I never thought to make one with a coffee can, or a coffee can packed with soggy cigarette butts. That would have been fun ;)
Posted by: solios at March 16, 2005 11:56 PM
Gross. The stink of it ought to scare them off- soaked cigs don't smell pretty. Only possible downside is that (depending) that much leftover nicotine can be extremely toxic if consumed.
Posted by: Adam at March 17, 2005 05:29 AM
He is probaly busy removing the lfet over tobaco and drying it out in his bedroom. Imagine the stench!!!
Poor little chap, bet he cant wait to smoke his find.
Posted by: Ankalon at March 20, 2005 05:56 PM
Like what? Testify, brother. We want to know what you'd do.
Posted by: at March 22, 2005 08:18 AM
Uh, DB? Where'd you go... no bat signal...
Posted by: Ben at March 22, 2005 07:33 PM
YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!
Posted by: ding at March 26, 2005 01:11 PM
That Chock Full o Nuts can may be worth somthing one day, since it has the likeness of the twin towers on it.
- Alcoholic
- Obsessive
- Smoker
I guess my children will never read DrunkenBlog. :)