DITTO, you're INSANE Floks!
Okay I got one and its another reason to never start smoking.
I once worked with this great marine named MGySgt Birvon M. Strong, a big ole teddy bear with a heart of gold... kinda looks like Icedog only a lot older.
Anyway MGysgt Strong went on a 3 month deployment to Panama before all the trouble started and came back with a bag of tricks... stuff for practical jokes, he and I were always pulling pranks on each other, the troops and the officers.. lots of good memories!
Well he just got back and got all the troops in our dept to pull a prank on me. I was a smoker and had been trying to quit... MGysgt Strong (another smoker) decided to help.
He loaded my cigarettes with these little pellets that pop when you light them. I smoked three cigarettes that day and not one of them popped. I got home and he called me (which wasn't unusual because we socialized together a lot). We talked and I thought nothing of it.
Well I went running and when I finished and came home I saw my wife was in tears, I asked what was wrong and she said three cigarettes exploded in her face. Now I didn't laugh but it seemed unbelievable so she asked me to light one up... I did, took three strong draws and nothing... handed it to her and "POP"! ASH and tobacco was everywhere... in her hair... on the carpet... it was all I could do not to laugh!
So we watched a movie and had some wine to mellow out. I lit a cigarette smoked some and she asked for it, I swear her hands were trembling! As soon as she put it to her lips... "POP"! All over her, me and the sofa... I was cracking up now and didn't care if she was angry or not. I knew it was STRONG, up to his old tricks again. I tossed the pack in the trash and got her a new one at the PX store, but she was done!
When I got to work the next day everyone was cracking up as soon as they saw me, then I told them and Strong that his prank backfired... he called and apoligised, even bought Val some flowers. That old goat and I had a lot of good times, he retired and lives in Arizona.
_________________
"Down with democracy... we need more dictatorships"! Galamoth
"Derms, celebrate your independance"! Babz