Saturday, June 19, 2010
5:40 AM
Projectors
We didn't have t'v's in every room in the house back then so this was a very big deal. I could crawl into bed at night and watch a cartoon right there on my wall for as long as the batteries held out. Crazy fun. LOL
*sidenote: My one and only complaint I have about Christmas in our house was that Mom and Dad would buy us lots of toys that required batteries and other things to work. They would buy us one set of batteries for each toy and then once they went down, their Christmas spirit had passed and they were no longer interested in buying more. When I was a kid, I thought batteries cost an arm and a leg based on my parent's unwillingness to purchase them. I figured they must cost at least $10 per battery or something. lol I never will understand how they expected us to play with battery-powered toys throughout the year if they weren't going to replenish our batteries. They were the same way about film (that's why there are almost no pics of us growing up), long distance minutes, HBO, and anything that had to be ordered from the Penney's catalog. I was in college before I realized that the things in the Penney's catalog were priced the same as the things in the stores. I thought you had to be a doctor's kid to afford to order things. LOL Somewhat related is the fact that I also thought the whole world dropped off at the Mc******* city limits until I was in high school because we so rarely ventured beyond that point. I can't tell you how many times someone at school would show up with a pair of shoes, a shirt, etc. that I desperately loved only to break my heart by telling me that they got it at the mall in Tulsa. In my world, the mall in Tulsa might as well have been the moon. There was no way I was ever going to get to go there to shop. I guess that's why I became such a mall rat once I got old enough to make the trek myself. No more shopping in dullsville where they are always a good 10 years behind the times! Besides. I don't want any of my tax money going to support this place than is absolutely necessary.