Rubber Bands

Last week, I had to purchase some large rubber bands to secure the shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. Unfortunately, there were no small bags available and I was left to bring home a 1 pound bag of brightly colored bands. Nolan saw this as an opportunity to make a couple Lego rubber band guns........



......,which he then proceeded to bring to church yesterday. This was unknown to me until he was about to demonstrate it's firepower to fellow Lego enthusiast, Chris McCarthy. Should I have to explain to a 12 year old that he should not be shooting rubber band guns in the church sanctuary?

On the continued subject of rubber bands, this was a conversation this morning in the Gilbert house:

Tell: (holding a brown rubber band) In the old days did they have jes plain rubber bands, not colors?
Me: Yes, that's true. Although in the VERY old days they had NO rubber bands, not even plain ones.
Tell: No, no. I didn't mean way back then. I mean in the NEW old days.
Me: Then that's right. They only had plain rubber bands.

(Tell, satisfied with my answer, twirls around, hops across the kitchen floor and heads downstairs.)

Jubal: (chuckling) So what constitutes the new old days?
Me: After the very old days, but before today. It's all extremely scientific.








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