Besides The Girl or The Guy, what is something in your lifetime that you really wanted so badly but ended up without. For me, the year was about 1962 or so. My famly was at the circus. Does anybody remember Rin Tin Tin? It was a TV show about a German Shepard who worked with a cavalry outfit in the West. The show featured a little boy and Rin Tin Tin was his "sidekick." Anyway, at the circus they were giving away several of the little guy's cavalry uniforms. I wanted one so badly but alas didn't get one. I can still see the whole scene in my mind's eye.
When I was a kid I always wanted a Go-Kart. I never got one. On another sad note. This one Christmas, my parents told everyone in my family I was getting a CD player as a gift since I did not have one. Most of the people in my family bought me CD's for Christmas. Then at the last minute my parents changed their mind and got me something else. So I had like 12 Cd's and no player. That sucked.
Back in the early 70s, they came out with the Suzuki Trailblazer. It was a motorcycle for young adults. One lucky kid in our neighborhood got one and I used to ride it alot. "You have a bike, ride that" was the answer I got when I asked if I could have one.
The Ninja Turtles sewer playset. Had the Technodrome but could never whine enough to get my parents to buy this. Oh well, there's always ebay.
I used to want a Go-Kart so bad, until these kids flipped over in a ditch down the street from me, they weren't hurt, it just didn't seem fun anymore. Also, does anyone remember those mini motorcycles circa 1988, they looked like Nijas. That would have been pretty cool to have.
A drum set. I've always wanted to be a drummer, to play in a rock band. I used to use pencils, sticks, straws...whatever was handy. But alas, I never got my drum set. I always kid my wife that when I win the lottery, our new house will have an insulated music room so I can.... I don't want to work I want to bang on the drum all day I don't want to play I just want to bang on the drum all day Ever since I was a tiny boy I don't want no candy I don't need no toy I took a stick and an old coffee can I bang on that thing 'til I got Blisters on my hand because I don't want to work I want to bang on the drum all day I don't want to play I just want to bang on the drum all day When I get older they think I'm a fool The teacher told me I should stay after school She caught me pounding on the desk with my hands But my licks was so hot I made the teacher wanna dance And that's why I don't want to work I want to bang on the drum all day I don't want to play I just want to bang on the drum all day Listen to this Every day when I get home from work I feel so frustrated The boss is a jerk And I get my sticks and go out to the shed And I pound on that drum like it was the boss's head Because I don't want to work I want to bang on the drum all day I don't want to play I just want to bang on the drum all day I can bang that drum Hey, you wanna take a bang at it? I can do this all day
A pony. Mr. JB is under the impression that there wouldn't be enough room for it in our Heights home and yard. Whatever.
I don't know what they are called. When I was 5 years old, those big plastic red cars with the banana yellow top that had pedals inside to drive around in were all the rage. I wanted one SO badly. More than I've wanted anything in my entire life (childhood and adulthood). My parents spent one frantic week in the Christmas of 1982 looking for it, but it was sold out at every single store in Houston. I never got it, and I think my life would have been a lot better if I had! Nevertheless, every time Christmas comes around, my parents always tell that story to people with a sad tone... I guess they see it as their one personal failure as parents or something. If I ever see one at a garage sale, I'm going to buy it and give it to my parents to give me as a Christmas present.
An opening slot on the Rolling Stones 1973 North American tour, but then again, I was only 12 years old at the time!
A bath towel! I wanted to be Batman, but my mom would only let me take a dishtowel and some of the other kids had bath towels, so they were always Batman. I was stuck playing Robin or a villian. Damn you Mom!
I used to take two wash cloths (front and back) and lash them with a belt and climb the fig tree in my backyard on Garden Oaks Boulevard. Tarzan!
So that was you that we used to tie to the tree Remember the Bat Belt? It had all kinds of neat gizmos in it. Bat Boomerang, Bat Spray ("Don't you spray that in anyone's eyes") and of course the Bat Rope.
Of course, you mean the "Utility Belt." Here's the 1966 version: I guess back then you had to put a gun in for it to sell.
Damn!!! Thats the one. Now if I could replace my Batmobile model car that I saved 4 box tops from Captain Crunch, sent away, and seemed like 2 years later I recieved it.
I always wanted a bee bee gun. I almost had one too. Then my next neighbor accidentally shot me in the face with his. Needless to say, after my mom kicked his ass, she said no to me having one.
well, I can think of a man or two... oh, that's right, we can't use those in this thread. What did I want and not get... -a brother or sister -to finish school somewhere other than the dysfunctional Southern town I was stuck in -instant ability to do gymnastics and figure skating I wasn't too materialistic, so what little I wanted, I usually got. Well, except for that trampoline. But you'd have to have enough people around to stand on the sides of it in case you fall off, so it's not practical.
