Bottle Rocket Wars

Bottle rocket wars were one of the highlights of my teenage years. We would hold the bottle rocket between two fi ngers and shoot it right at a friend. Somehow no one lost an eye and my mom didn’t wring my neck when she would eventually fi nd out about it. These days I prefer celebrating in a peaceful nonbodily maiming way. I hope the stock market does July in a peaceful non-maiming way as well.

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