And yet, through all the incidents and adversity, you wouldn't change a
minute of it right?  My son, about 5 or so at the time, scattered most of
my electronics tools all over the neighborhood to anyone he thought
deserving of such bounty.    I never did get them all back.   That was
about $400.00 USD worth of tools at the time.  This was the early
80's.   I was fit to be tied at the time, but thinking about it now, I can
laugh about it.  It's still difficult, but I can do it.  And even if I could
have  changed it, I probably wouldn't have.  If I would have, I wouldn't
have this tale to tell.  I guess that's what makes life worth living.  That
is,  having all the memories of when your kids were young and the
things they did, or tried to do.  As a matter of fact, I could probably
write a book about the "Adventures of my kids" and it would be
so outrageous and funny, it'd sell a million copies and leave me
not wanting during my retirement.   I think I'll keep this in mind and
work on it in my spare time.Anyway, just wanted to add my 2 cents
worth.  I'll beg out now.


Have fun ya'll,


Regards,


Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Botkin <dale@BOTKIN.ORG>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [OT]: What kids do (was bad oscilloscope?)


>Oh, yeah.
>
>I made the mistake of leaving the back off our near-new 27" TV (quite
>expen$ive in '88 or so), and just shoved the tools underneath.  I'd been
>working very late one night replacing a speaker one of the little darlings
>had skewered with a toy.  My oldest son, about 4 or 5 at the time, decided
>he'd help Daddy by taking a 10" Crescent wrench to the neck of the tube.
>
>We didn't watch TV for a couple of years.  Even if I could have afforded a
>new CRT, I didn't have the equipment to gfet it tweaked and aligned
>properly, and the repair shops flat out told me it would cost less to
>replace the set.  Eventually the nice oak swivel TV made a dandy stand for
>the 13" replacement.
>
>And there's the bright orange spray paint...  the drill incident...  and
>so on, and so on.  May they all have kids of their own some day - I could
>use a good laugh!
>
>Dale
>--
>"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that
>curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
>          - Arnold Edinborough
>
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