I was describing the game to my grandson, telling
him how I played the game at the Dyckman Projects
in Washington Heights in the 50’s, and how my
middle finger would be bleeding and raw all the time because of the ragged edge of the soda
bottle caps and how we would rub the bottoms on
the sidewalk to smooth them out from the bumps
of the soda can opener……he was amazed that
they didn’t have screw on bottle tops…..he also
didn’t know what a radiator was when I told him
that that’s how we melted the crayons into the
bottle tops and sometimes the wax would overflow
down the sides of the radiator and my mother
would yell at me.