Paper and Fire

When Harry and I were around thirteen we grabbed some notebook paper and some matches and sat at their back door (on the right side of the house in the picture below).

What could we do with paper and matches? Something mischievous to be sure. The first thing we did was make paper airplanes, we were experts at that from making them at school. After we found a design that would fly a considerable distance, we made several of them and set them on fire and threw them in the yard. Their flight distance decreased while engulfed in flames.

After the airplanes it was time to chill. So we sat back on the steps to the basement, rolled up a few cigarettes using the notebook paper, and proceeded to smoke like our grandpa. But one puff on those college-ruled stogies and we were finished! If you've never smoked notebook paper... don't. I think the tops of my lungs are still charred from the short experience.

And that's a couple of things teens can do with paper and fire.