Day 19

Hitting what you shoot at with a handgun is difficult, and more so when the handgun is made of plastic or a vaguely handgun-shaped stick or a finger. Many a shootout ended in arguments about who had shot whom first or the difficulty of dodging bullets, even imaginary ones, once they had been fired. This was before the Matrix taught us how. It was a big day when Mom broke down and bought a pair of pistols that fired little yellow BBs. No more arguing, now we’d know for sure. It took us about 15 minutes to lose them all.