When i was little, around 10-12 years old... me and my 2 brothers built a fort out in the woods (one of many).. We had tin walls and half the roof was tin also. Had a nice fire pit in there as well.
Anyways one day we were out there playing with aerosol spray cans and fire.... Hair spray, spray paint... What ever we could get our little hands on.....
At the same time we were also smoking cigarettes sitting around the fire.. Make a long story shorter my older brother left a can of spray paint too close to the fire... At the exact time the can exploded i had just took a big drag off the cigarette and started coughing and fell through one of our poorly constructed tin walls.... I was not burned at all..... My brothers were not so lucky, older brother had a few burn blisters on his legs but my younger brother's lower legs both had 2nd and 3rd degree burns all over.
We knew we would get our asses whooped for going out their playing with fire, even if we lied about the smoking we would be in for a world of trouble... SO being young and dumb we decided we wouldnt tell the folks at all. But my younger brother was in a world of pain......
So we searched the house for something to help clean out his burns, which had paint mixed in with his skin, and to help ease the pain.... We found Icy-hot.....
We figured it said Icy and hot right in the name so it must be OK...... My brother asked me to help so i slowly applied the Icy-hot to his burns and continued to blow on them to help ease the pain... He actually said it helped for a few seconds anyways.... Then it felt like the fire was inside his legs.
We made it 2 days without telling the folks, then we started to worry about infection in my brothers legs so we came clean... The doctors had to scrub burnt skin with paint mixed in off his legs... He still has the scars.
Man we were DUMB..... I dont know if we planned for him to never wear shorts again or what..... its not like we could of kept that secret for real. After that i was done playing doctor though
