Long time gone

What toys from your childhood do you still wish you had?

top
More thought than toy.

One of my uncles used to make spinning tops for me. They didn’t have much. Subsistance farmers. But he took the time and made the effort to make little things that were just for me. Simple things.

My toy would be a spool left over from my grandmother’s quilting and a twig whittled down to fit it and given a point. They never lasted all that long, left in the dust under the oak in the front yard. Swept up from the front porch and burned with the other trash in the kitchen stove. Not much more substance than a game of Simon Says.

My silver dollars
Okay, not a toy, but a favorite childhood thing. My best uncle began when I was born and gave me silver dollar every year on my birthday until he died when I was eleven. Most of them were old, not mint, not worth much above fact value, but elegant in their own way.

Ladies. No matter how good looking he is, don’t bring him home. You have been drinking. Don’t trust your judgment where sex is concerned. And never leave him alone with your belongings.