On Hazelwood, I had a friend named Nick.  Whenever we got together, we pretty much spent all our time trying to come up with ideas of things to do, and about 90% of the ideas ended up getting us in trouble.

One of my favorite stories is the time that Nick and I decided we wanted to make some extra money.  We got my red wagon and went first to Nick’s garage and then to my garage, picking out the best looking tools from our respective fathers’ workbenches.  We then went door to door down Hazelwood, offering tools for sale and telling our neighbors that we were doing it to raise money for a school project.  The amazing thing is that when we got caught, our parents had to go door to door to buy the tools back, taking the neighbors’ word for how much they had paid for each tool.  Needless to say, by the time our parents were finished buying back all their tools, it cost them a significant amount more than the money Nick and I had raised. 

That experience taught me (and my parents) a lot about our neighbors!