I thought life would be easy as an adult.
 
 
Boy did I ever get that one wrong.

I pretended i was the invisible man and used my watch to get invisible. I remember once I even believed I was invisible when playing with my friend.

sharke
Also, my mother worked Saturdays at a fashion boutique in the city and I would hang out there all day with her sometimes. I had this very healthy interest in the mannequins in the window and for thrills would put my hand up their dresses. In fact I even have a photo of me doing it....
 
 

 
LOL
 
The funny thing is that my mother too worked in a boutique for a few years. Needless to say I had a fascination for the naked mannequins in the back store and also those cut outs that advertised bras and lingerie.
 
I really don't remember going through what Freud calls a latency stage - if I did, it was probably shorter than a commercial break.

SteveStrummerUK
 
I'm still a kid.

An older boy made you duet.

Rain

sharke
Also, my mother worked Saturdays at a fashion boutique in the city and I would hang out there all day with her sometimes. I had this very healthy interest in the mannequins in the window and for thrills would put my hand up their dresses. In fact I even have a photo of me doing it....
 
 

 
LOL
 
The funny thing is that my mother too worked in a boutique for a few years. Needless to say I had a fascination for the naked mannequins in the back store and also those cut outs that advertised bras and lingerie.
 
I really don't remember going through what Freud calls a latency stage - if I did, it was probably shorter than a commercial break.

Well just to the right of those mannequins in the photo was a large stack of Elle and Cosmopolitan magazines. Believe me, I had a good pop at those once I was done with the mannequins 
 
I bet most here (male) remember picking up through those big catalogs that sell everything and flicking straight to the bra and pantie section. Then some kid would come to school with a page he'd ripped out of his mom's catalog, it would be the shower section and you could just make out a woman's nipple behind the frosted glass. EXCITING!
 
Nowadays kids are just logging onto Pornhub. I kind of feel sorry for them in a way. 

sharke
 
 
Nowadays kids are just logging onto Pornhub. I kind of feel sorry for them in a way. 

Watching some 2 year old play games on an iPad during Thanksgiving dinner, it really struck me that nowadays, kids seem to require a constant flow of external stimulation, whereas, as I remember it, we had to use our imagination to make things interesting.
 
The funny thing is that, just before we went to that dinner, a friend had posted a picture of this toy on FB:

 
And I remember thinking - "what the heck was that supposed to be? what were we supposed to do with that?" I guess we really had to use our imagination...
 
I was a bit too old for that particular toy, but I remember my younger cousin had one, and we'd basically re-purpose that, use it as a console for an imaginary spaceship or whatever... 
 
Later on, indeed, those Sears catalogues stimulated that imagination of mine. 
 
 

I loved coconut so much I snagged one of those big bags from our kitchen and took it to my room. Munched on it for a couple of months as I recall.
Still have a thing for coconut.
 
I also wired an ac cord to a 6 x 9 speaker cause I thought that was enough to make an amp like my big brother had...
 
BANG!!

Rain

sharke
 
 
Nowadays kids are just logging onto Pornhub. I kind of feel sorry for them in a way. 

Watching some 2 year old play games on an iPad during Thanksgiving dinner, it really struck me that nowadays, kids seem to require a constant flow of external stimulation, whereas, as I remember it, we had to use our imagination to make things interesting.
 
The funny thing is that, just before we went to that dinner, a friend had posted a picture of this toy on FB:

 
And I remember thinking - "what the heck was that supposed to be? what were we supposed to do with that?" I guess we really had to use our imagination...
 
I was a bit too old for that particular toy, but I remember my younger cousin had one, and we'd basically re-purpose that, use it as a console for an imaginary spaceship or whatever... 
 
Later on, indeed, those Sears catalogues stimulated that imagination of mine. 
 

 
This was one of my favorite toys as a kid, the Frog's Chorus
 

 
But my absolute most favoritest toy ever was this:
 

Oh lord I just remembered another one....
 
When I was 8 or so my friend David Scott and I decided that it would be a great idea to put on an exhibition of dog poop in his bedroom. So we went around the neighborhood picking up every specimen we could find with a couple of lolly sticks, took it back to his place and arranged it on pieces of tissue paper on his bedroom table, complete with labels indicating which breed we guessed it came from. You can imagine his mother's horror when she came in the room. I was from that day forward banned from his house and we were forbidden to play together. Seemed like a great injustice at the time but looking back I think it was the right move. 
 

bitman
I loved coconut so much I snagged one of those big bags from our kitchen and took it to my room. Munched on it for a couple of months as I recall.
Still have a thing for coconut.
 
I also wired an ac cord to a 6 x 9 speaker cause I thought that was enough to make an amp like my big brother had...
 
BANG!!

I'm guessing you mean desiccated coconut....
 
I loved that as well. Still do.