Several days ago, Vman mentioned Shingletab in a post, which brought back a lot of memories; then Rob recalls with some fondness the bleeding headwounds of his youth.

It disturbes me- no, wait, I was disturbed before this, never mind. It bothers me that Vman, Acidman, and my humble self seem to be the last people on earth (OK, in blogdom) who remember Shingletab. of course, being Canucks, they call’s em Shingle “chips”, slightly sacreligious though that may be; but the product is the same.

Shingle chips are the donut holes of the paving world. When one of the many manufacturers therof makes a three-tab asphalt shingle, there are two small slices cut out which are wasted and frankly, cannot be used for much at all.

Until some enterprising environmentally minded person decided to see how they’d work as roadway material.

Look at the pictures- it’s not horribly different from Asphalt- and for a long time, we even sealcoated the stuff. It was a great driveway, though in the dead of summer it often got hot and moist enough to stick to your bare feet, and the swiftest most painful retribution of my early teens was received at the business end of my mom’s purse strap, after tracking spots of shingletab onto her new camel colored carpeting.

Makes me want to go get some for our driveway.