Hide and Seek - Doesn't Turn Out So Well

When I was 5 I played Hide and Go seek with the neighborhood boys (I say boys because I happened to be the only girl in the neighborhood and was sort of forced to become a tomboy. I took to the role quite well). My grandmother (who took care of us) had a next door neighbor (friend Michael's mom) that had one of those big brick BBQ pits you used to see with a big brick chimney. I decided that might be a great hiding place and climbed down into the chimney. Yep, you guessed it. I got stuck. They had to tear down the chimney brick by brick to get me out. I was NOT happy and if I recall neither was anyone else. Fortunately back in those days no one had wonderful digital cameras to record such events with. So now it looks like my granddaughter is following in my footsteps. Should I tell my DIL about the time I led the boys on a tour of the underground sewers of Birmingham? Nah...

Chris aka Pax