re: Name something crazy your dad had you do growing up

My dad taught us how to play poker when we were young. Then, when we were allowed to go with him to the camp, he gave us money to play 3 card poker against the other camp members. Me and my brother cleaned them out, and we were not allowed to play poker there again. We were about 8 and 11 at the time.

My dad was always working on something in the shop. On Saturday morning we'd go to my grandma's and he'd go in the shop over there and weld stuff. He made my brother and I pecan guns. Basically a 2" steel pipe with a pipe cap on one end, and he drilled a hole in the pipe cap so the firecracker fuse could go through. Put some wadding in the pipe and load it up with a pecan. It was our own pecan muzzleloaders. We'd have mud clot wars with the neighbors after a big rain. Neighbor had a tree house, we didn't. We started turning the tide of the wars when we brought out the old pecan guns and fire them at the neighbors. The pecans would explode on impact when it hit the side of that tree house. The mud flinging wars always ended shortly after the pecan guns came out, for some reason...