Be patient, grandchildren provide the ultimate revenge! John Ferrell 6241 Phillippi Rd Julian NC 27283 Phone: (336)685-9606 Dixie Competition Products NSRCA 479 AMA 4190 W8CCW "My Competition is Not My Enemy" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jims Mail" To: Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 11:43 PM Subject: [OT]: Re: Re:What kids do (was bad oscilloscope?) > 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 $400.00 USD worth of tools at the time. This was the early > 80's. I was fit to be tied at the time, but thinking about it now, I can > laugh about it. It's still difficult, but I can do it. And even if I could > have changed it, I probably wouldn't have. If I would have, I wouldn't > have this tale to tell. I guess that's what makes life worth living. That > is, having all the memories of when your kids were young and the > things they did, or tried to do. As a matter of fact, I could probably > write a book about the "Adventures of my kids" and it would be > so outrageous and funny, it'd sell a million copies and leave me > not wanting during my retirement. I think I'll keep this in mind and > work on it in my spare time.Anyway, just wanted to add my 2 cents > worth. I'll beg out now. > > > Have fun ya'll, > > > Regards, > > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Botkin > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Date: Sunday, February 17, 2002 10:30 PM > Subject: Re: [OT]: What kids do (was bad oscilloscope?) > > > >Oh, yeah. > > > >I made the mistake of leaving the back off our near-new 27" TV (quite > >expen$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 > > > >-- > >http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > >(like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.