So Halloween is dead last in terms of retail holidays?

[iHaunt]

Fire back? I've had never problem with Roman candles, Mike. Well I have to be carefully. Thanks for telling me. Also, what is thy? Please send me a PM if you do not wish to post it here. Thanks again.

[Pumpkin_Man]

That was supposed to be "thigh," not "thy." My brain decided to take an early lunch break when I wrote that.

They probably improved the Roman Candles since I last used them. The problem I had with them is that the flaming balls would shoot out of both ends, all though they were not supposed to. That's what I meant by the term "back fire." The Roman Candles are designed to shoot out only one end, the end which you point up, but all to often, it's been my experience that they shot out fo botht he top and bottom end, and on two ocassions i was hit in the THIGH by a flaming ball. So Roman Candles are not among my favorite fireworks.

However, Roman Candles are not the only fireworks that can mal function. On one ocassion I was lighting smoke balls, and then throwing then away, and one of them 'fast-fuesed' and litteraly exploded like a fire cracker in my hand. My hand was so badly bruised and hurting so bad I couldn't do anything for a couple of days, not even drive my car. I was driving a Toyota Pick Up with a manual transmission at the time.

Mike

[MacPhantom]

Mike, are you feeling okay today? You seem a bit frail.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Actualy I'm fine. The exploding smoke ball incident happened well over 20 years ago, in the Summer of 84 to be exact. If it's my crappy spelling you're refering to, or my all-over-the-place typing, that's just because I think faster then I type. Bot other then that, I'm quite all right.

Regarding my last comment, you may be too young to remember, but a lot of cars and pick up trucks back in the 80s, came with a manual transmission. Commonly refered to as driving "stick," you don't just put a "stick shift" car in "D" and go down the road. There are three foot pedals and a gear shift, most often located on the floor on the transmission hump between the drivers side and the passenger's side. The three pedals are the accelator, break and clutch. In order to drive "stick," you have to step on the clutch, put the gear shift into 1st, get the car moving, then step on the clutch again, shift into 2nd, accelorate a little faster, and so on and so on. In order to do that, you need to use both feet and both hands. When my hand was injured, I couldn't drive because it hurt like the dickens to operate the gear shift.

Mike

[iHaunt]

Wow! That's terrible, Mike! So that Roman candles might shoot out of both ends? Guess I have to be carefully.