The Chemistry Set & the egg

The old chemistry sets are nothing like they make today.  Back then they did not have all the safety requirements.  My brother was a brain so for Christmas one year they had got him a chemistry set……..Guess I had better start at the beginning.

All of us kids would gather eggs when it was our turn that day and we would always sneak one or two eggs out to hide. The town kids that would come to visit would also get eggs out of frig and hide them. Hide, why would we hide eggs when it wasn’t Easter? First remember that we did not have the videos, TV’s, games, movies, computers etc. that kids have today. We hide them for fun games. That’s right for toys. We all had our hidden stashes on the farm and we would let them rot. The longer they ripened the better. When kids would come to play we would all get 3 or 4 nice ripe eggs out of our stash and the war was on. A rotten egg fight!  You learned real quite to run, hide and figure out good strategies as you only had so many bombs.  What a blast we had.  When we were done we would jump in the canal and swim and wash our eggs off.  My brothers had a wicked arm and really threw accurate so we lived in fear of the red headed monster.

One evening it was boring and the parents were playing cards. We were trying to think of something fun to do, my brother was the only one with any eggs left and we can’t throw eggs at night. What to do? What to do?

Out comes the chemistry set and we start mixing things together and nothing fun was happening so we decided to see what would happen if we put the chemicals in one of our rotten eggs.  Very carefully we poked a hole in the egg and got the little funnel out and started dumping everything we could find into the egg.  Drat, still boring.  We decided to play Monopoly so we set up the table and BOOM! That rotten egg exploded all over the room, the stink was like no other…How do you stink worse then a rotten egg?  You dump a bunch of chemicals in the rotten egg that’s how.  There is not a skunk anywhere that can smell that bad.

We yelled bloody murder, the parents came running, they yelled bloody murder, kids were grounded, kids were threatened with their lives, kids had broken ear drums from the yelling.

The end results, 3 town kids stayed the weekend and we scrubbed, we aired, we washed clothes, we washed bedding, we mopped floors and on and on.

The one thing we never did, we never dumped chemicals in an egg again our whole lives long.