Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 But I got a really good check, for being 6 years old. My parents dolled it out, for a long time, I guess. The last thing I got was a magnificent Flexible-Flyer! I think I remember Mom and Dad getting a lot of new furniture about the same time, but I had ALL the 'Billy Blastoff' you could get. We'll call it a draw. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 I won $1000's of $ by winning a swimming race on the SS France. It was a big fancy deal. I didn't know. It was just a kids race. A dozen French, German, Polish, English, Scottish, and Dicaprio's they had. Alll hungry, and trained. I was in third grade. Mom, when I was younger, taught swimming. This I could do. I was drowned proof. So I won. In an olympic pool. We got invited to the Captain's table. I don't remember any toy-money coming from that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 And I won $1000's of $ on the SS France, by playing bingo at dinner. I didn't know what bingo rules are, but it was the last game of the night. The Big One! I think it was all four corners, and the middle. That's A Bingo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 I don't remember any toys from that one, either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Just now, Huaco Kid said: And I won $1000's of $ by playing bingo at dinner. I didn't know what bingo rules are, but it was the last game of the night. The Big One! I think it was all four corners, and the middle. That's A Bingo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 I think I got "Action Man". America had GI Joe, but we weren't there yet. So... Action Man was kind of a Barbie-looking Man-doll. His elbows and knees didn't even move. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 He had a blue Astronaut overalls. I don't know how tough he was, because he was never in a cartoon. He had a pistol, but no footlocker, or nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 The ship's cabin, where the parents made us stay, was 4'x4' with bunkbeds. And a ceiling fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 But after Action Man had to go up and down the bunk-ladder, to kill the Barbie encampment, 100 times, he got tired. So... my pre-engineering brain got some leather straps (from my sister's Tandy kits) and I tied him to the ceiling fan hub. Turn the fan on, and it would take five seconds for it all to twist up and pick AM up, into the top bunk. Did it for days. And carried all his gear up there too. This part of the Ocean was safe, because AM was large and in charge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Then..... I don't know. AM missed his mark. And missed the bunkbeds. My finger was the only one that could have been on the switch, or chain. And he spun up into the ceiling, right in the fan motor, and locked up, in leather straps. And it made buzzing sounds. And louder ones. And made smoke. And way too much smoke. And smoke smell. So I ran away. Bolted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 International cruises had smoke-detectors before any consumer had ever even heard of them. And the room-one went off. And then the deck-one went off. And the the boat-one went off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 I was too young, and couldn't lie that good, and besides, AM was burned into a crisp, all pinned into the ceiling. So if we got sued, I don't know. That's a parent thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 On the same ship, there was a huge storm. Me and my buddy that I met, (don't remember his name), went out onto the back of the ship, the very end part. Where Dicaprio hung on to. There was the swimming pool. We were mesmerized by seeing the bottom of this end of the pool, and then Swish! the bottom of that end of the pool. We were having a great time throwing life preservers and lounge chairs all over the railings! And into the pool. Then some ship-hands came out and got us. And yelled at us. And yelled at us a lot more. And cursed at us, and stuff. I don't know. They never told Mom and Dad, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 26 minutes ago, Silentpoet said: I just give them all a baggie with a goldfish in it. Three hours later, they pretty much just figure it out on their own. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 The kids and grandkids recently spent the night. At 10pm, or midnight, the boys were going crazy-berserk, like Indians (Pawnee). I told everyone that we should let them watch the SAW movie. That it would shut them up. For a week. Or Two. My parenting skills have only become more refined, since mine were younger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Huaco Kid said: I don't remember any toy-money coming from that one. I got a 3' x 1' x 1' precisely detailed model of the SS France, in a display case. Amidst much fanfare. If I still have it, it's probably crushed into the attic, somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Who tied an "Action Man" to the ceiling fan and set the ship onto evacuation-fire?!? "I don't know." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 "Do you have an Action Man?" "No." "Why is there an AM twisted into the ceiling fan, all burned up, where it looks like a fire started?" "Because he's a *****?" That's just regular American. Europeans are waaaaaaaaaaaay worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 And then, so, I was at the airport getting my bags. And I was a bit late. I saw my one bag go around on the belt, behind the wall, and then my other bag came out, so I got it. And then the belt stopped. My other bag was back there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 So I waited 20 minuets. Minits. And asked the desk-guy and he called the back-room guy and he brought it out. But one wheel was busted off. Which could happen. Except, there were still ball-bearings and some of the tracks, still spilling across the floor. I told the guy, "Wow. The wheel is broke off." He said, "No, it's not." "Yeah. It pretty much is." "It was like that." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 And the desk-guy said, "I'll document your brokeness, but we don't guarantee wheels." It's not his gig, so I agree with him, and got some documentation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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