| I vividly remember the time when I was a small boy... I | | | | work, because back then the toys were only |
| was very active, I never stayed in one place for more | | | | supposed to look like real things, they were not |
| than a few seconds, except when I ate or slept. I was | | | | expected to actually work. |
| always running around the house or in the backyard. | | | | Well, I am a happy 40 year-old dude now, and I have a |
| When I wanted to go somewhere, I never walked, I | | | | 7 year-old kid that inherited his dad's awesome looks |
| always ran. And if I had friends with me, everything | | | | and curly hair. But things have changed a lot. The toys |
| was a competition. I was even more energetic. I had | | | | these days are incredible. I can't believe how every toy |
| blond hair (which later turned brown, and I hated it | | | | must be intelligent nowadays. Most toys I bought for |
| when I realized I wasn't blond anymore), I was short in | | | | my kid have electronic circuits inside, or even |
| stature and everybody said that I looked like David | | | | microchips that make the action of playing with a toy |
| Lee Roth from Van Halen (I'm sure you've heard of | | | | very different from what I was used to in my |
| him). | | | | childhood. |
| Everybody loved me, and I loved everybody, but what | | | | For example, the Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital |
| I loved most of all were my toys. And I had a lot of | | | | Camera is a thing that I would never have thought |
| toys, because Dad was going out of town very often | | | | would be possible when I was little. You can make real |
| because he had important business meetings to attend | | | | pictures that you can later store on a computer's hard |
| to, and he always brought something when he came | | | | disk. And it's still just a toy! It's made especially for kids |
| back home. I had an impressive collection of plastic | | | | less than 12 years of age, and it is indestructible. You |
| cowboys and Indians which I used to play with in my | | | | can throw it around the house|bang it on the wall at will |
| little tree house. Also, I had all types of sports balls, | | | | and it won't break. Oh, if only I would have had access |
| from golf balls to kids' bowling and soccer balls. My | | | | to such things 30 years ago... My kid loves this thing. He |
| friends often came to my place for this reason and | | | | even uses it in the pool, making pictures of his feet |
| played with my toys all day long. I had board games, | | | | under the water. Who knows what they will invent |
| toy phones, toy cars, toy television sets. Of course, | | | | next? Maybe when my kid will have kids of his own, |
| they were all surrogates, and you could only play | | | | he'll buy them toy space rockets that really bring you |
| pretend with the phone, cars and television sets. But | | | | into Earth's orbit and back again, just for fun! |
| we didn't even feel the need for those toys to actually | | | | |