26 Sep
2010
26 Sep
'10
2:21 p.m.
On Sun, 26 Sep 2010, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Depends on the parents. My folks refused to get us an
NES when we were
younger, and wouldn't even let us rot with the old Intellivision. They got
us Legos and Construx, and forced me to learn how to use the C64 ("we spent
a lot of money on this, and you will damn well learn how to use it").
I'm eternally grateful to them. Truly.
My parents got my brother and I a used REAL erector set, and a used
chemistry set (a reasonably REAL one).
But they never understood tools. My father never understood that there
was more than one size of Philips screwdrivers, and always thought that a
soldering iron was a big pistol shaped thing with a trigger, that all auto
body work was done with a big rubber hammer, and that nobody needed a
"whole SET" of wrenches, because the slip-joint pliers and the imitation
Crescent wrench from the dime store fit all sizes.
But, I did learn the concept of a mains fuse box when I was 4 :-)
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