i miss when my dad worked at tsi, the chemical plant or whatever

he would bring home bottles of freon and pour it into the tiny hands of my brother and me, we would watch, AMAZED, as it evaporated instantly

he would bring home garbage bag balloons, full of helium with the top half of a bottle taped to the bag as a reusable opening. he would come home with two giant floating garbage bags and we would make chipmunk voices

his workplace smelled like old white-out, it had a soda machine