zap-(sh)it

it's gonna be so much fun when rozzy can play with toys that i loved when i was growing up. i tell tj all the time we should go ahead and buy some cap guns before they are outlawed. i loved shooting cap guns... especially if i had a pack of candy cigarettes. i was so hardcore like that. my childhood best friend growing up was ryan egleston and he was pretty gangster too. we had zap-it guns. zap-its were awesome. they were water guns, but instead of filling them with water you filled them up with a disappearing ink. as you can imagine, this technology was beyond fascinating to us as kids. disappearing ink was something we had only seen on saturday morning cartoons. we shot everything (and everyone) with our zap-its. after going through cartridge after cartridge of the ink, just shooting stuff wasn't satisfying enough. we had to step it up a notch. i actually remember praying to jesus for forgiveness as i watched ryan spray the letters s-h-i-t onto my parent's bedspread. after that 't' was crossed time stood still. the average time of zap-it disappearing on any surface was around 1 minute. when you are 9 years old and you zap a cuss word on your mom's electric blanket and she is right down the hallway, the average time of disappearing increases to right around forever. ryan and i were merely concerned with the word disappearing before my mom saw it. never did it cross our minds that spraying an electric blanket with liquid could have made zapping a real possibility. i wish for rozzy to have her own version of ryan and her own version of a zap-it. and i will never own an electric blanket.