| I vividly recollect the times when I was a small kid…I | | | | actually work. |
| was very active, I seldom lingered in the same place | | | | Well, I am a really tall 40 year-old man now, and I have |
| for more than several minutes, save the times when I | | | | a 7 year-old child that has got his daddy's awesome |
| ate or slept. I was always running around the house or | | | | looks and blond hair. Yet, things are not the same as |
| in the yard. When I wanted to go anywhere, I never | | | | they were when I was little. The toys these days are |
| walked, I always ran. And if I had friends with me, | | | | extraordinary. I can't believe how every toy must be |
| everything was a competitionI was even more | | | | electronic in present day. The majority toys I got for |
| energetic. I had blond hair (which after a while turned | | | | my child have complex circuits inside, or even |
| brown, and I hated it the moment I discovered I wasn't | | | | software that make the simple activity of playing with |
| blond anymore), I was little in height and my family said | | | | a toy really different from what I was used to when I |
| that I was like David Lee Roth from Van Halen. | | | | was his age. |
| Everybody loved me, and I loved them all, but what I | | | | For example, the Fisher Price camera for kids is an |
| enjoyed to the maximum were my toys. And I played | | | | invention that I would never have thought would be |
| with a great number of toys, because Dad had to | | | | available to kids when I was a boy. You can make real |
| travel abroad very often because he was an | | | | pictures that you are able to store on a laptop's hard |
| important politician, and he always got me something | | | | disk. And it's still just a toy! It's made especially for |
| when he came home. I had an awesome collection of | | | | children less than 10 years of age, and it is hard to |
| little action figures which I was playing with in my little | | | | break. You can bang it on the wall at will and it will |
| tree house. Not to forget the fact that I owned many | | | | survive. Oh, if only I would have had access to that |
| kinds of sports balls, from handball balls to kids' baseball | | | | sort of toy a few decades ago… |
| and basketball balls. My friends oftentimes came to my | | | | My kid is crazy about this Fisher Price camera. He |
| home for this reason and played with my toys all day | | | | even uses it in the water, making pictures of his feet |
| long. I had board games, toy guitars, toy police vehicles, | | | | under the water. Who can imagine what they will think |
| toy television sets. Evidently, they were all fake, and | | | | of next? Maybe when little Dave will have kids of his |
| you could only play pretend with the TVs, cars and | | | | own, he'll give them toy space rockets that will actually |
| phones. But we a lot of fun with that kind of stuff, as | | | | bring you into the atmosphere and back again, just for |
| those were times when the toys were only designed | | | | fun! |
| to look like real things, they were not expected to | | | | |