Regarding the fire incident:
I was told, and then I confirmed it via police officer acquaintance, that buying lye put me on a "watch list" with the local pd where I was living. Apparently there had been an increase in ... meth houses??? And my son told me that he heard from the grapevine that kids had taken advantage of the frenzy and were pranking enemies, who were then getting their doors kicked in by swat in the middle of the night!!! Cop confirmed this!!! Dang! I decided if we were going to continue to live there, I should bring a gift basket of soap to the local pd and invite them to KNOCK on my door anytime they had a concern...
We moved.
But the funny part was that until we moved, I started having lye shipped to a friend's shop, had her call when it came, and picked it up there. (I told her why I was doing that. She thought it was funny.)
Well, just adding my 2 cents - :think:
Now back to funnies!!!! (um yeah, both my husband and my granddaughter have tried to eat soap)