Tuesday, October 9, 2012

I pay for my curiosity

I was a small child but old enough to know better. Black leaf 40, a nicotine product used for many years in agriculture,  had been placed in tunnels made and inhabited by gophers.  I decided to check out an opened tunnel hoping to see a gopher.

I paid for my curiosity; I breathed in the fumes and was immediately unconscious but regained my senses by the time I had been taken to the house.  Like most children, I followed the answer to a question by another "why."  That characteristic got me in trouble with teachers in elementary school but did me well as a newspaperman later.

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