Is Johnny Marshman around?
I got this BB gun for my birthday.
Johnny and I went out “hunting”.
It was a warm day. We were wearing nothing but shorts. Bare-footed.
Hunted down a snake crawling in the grass in Sidney’s front yard.
Stepping on its tail. Popping it with BBs.
Sidney came out and took the BB gun and chased us out of his yard.
Later. My Mom smashed the BB gun and then told me that Sidney had told her that Johnny and I were antagonizing a copperhead.
Certain death was always a part of my childhood on Dayton Ave.