[RKDinOKC]

My friend/house mate's parents would move all the furniture out of their formal living room and let us take it over. 4 of us would put together all our HO slot car track and make a huge track making sure each lane got the same number of inside and outside lanes on all the different radius curves. Each person tested mixing parts from the cars mixing them to get the fastest car. I had a Z28 body that would outrun everyone because it would use the guard rails to keep from flying off the track on outside lanes at full speed.

His Dad would take him and I out to a bridge on the county line with our 22's. And provided a couple cases of Heinz ketchup bottles to use for target practice. His Dad would then leave and come back in a couple of hours. We called it Plinking. That's were I learned to throw a coin in the air and shoot it with my 22 rifle. For a couple of teenagers we were very aware of proper gun safety.