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Burnout is a game where you throw a ball back and forth. Each time you throw it harder and harder until it is nolonger catchable. One fall season my oldest brother Mark and I were playing with a pumpkin in the living room about ten feet apart from eachother. It got faster and faster and then Mark threw it a little high. I reached up, but it was flying too fast and went through my hands, shattered a window and ended up in the front lawn. Needless to say, we don’t play burnout with pumpkins any more.

Flame thrower is where you take a match and hold down the aerosol hairspray can and watch the flame thrower in action. One time we decided to change it from flame thrower to flame ball. This is where you fill the toilet with hairspray and drop in a match. Last time we did this, my brother dropped the match, the flame ball went up burning so much oxygen that the door to the bathroom slammed and my hair was singed. We spent the rest of the afternoon clipping my hair so that my folks wouldn’t notice. That was the last time for that.

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