#42

My dad once told me I could have one pound for every sea shell I picked up from a beach near his friend’s house. I run over, quite excited only to find the tide is all the way in

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#43

I’ve got some bad news for you

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#44

remember being in Derry shopping with my mum one evening around Halloween and she stopped to talk to a friend who mentioned that he was on his way to Marks & Sparks. to me this sounded like some kind of fireworks display and i really wanted to go and sobbed when my mum fobbed me off by telling me it was just Marks & Spencer, which i didn’t believe for a second.

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#45

I once tried to prise open a shell thinking I would find a pearl inside, instead I found some kind of sea creature that I had inadvertently killed, felt guilty about it for ages

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#46

I wrote to Jim’ll Fix It asking to have a ride in a James Bond car. I was very disappointed that they never even wrote back to me :grimacing:

#47

The Spring/Summer editions of the Argos or Kays catalogue, with only a small toy section at the back.

#48

Got a Scalectrix for Christmas one year that broke on the first go because I squeezed the throttle too hard, another year got a big stupid Hotwheels loop-de-loop thing that never, ever worked. All subsequent years I received Lego which never let me down.

#49

Don’t know anyone who was looking at the toys section of the Kay’s catalogue mate…

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#50

That was later on, when I’d grown out of toys.

#51

The bras and knickers, right?

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#52

Carriage clocks

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#53

Thank you for preventing me repeating an anecdote on DiS and saving my humiliation. [Although obviously I am now humiliated by my inability to type “humiliation” correctly first time.]

#54

Got some non-Scalextrix Scalextrix (presumably it was cheaper) and it worked twice before breaking, but I didn’t want to tell my mum because I thought she’d be upset at having gotten me a shit present rather than being upset myself at having received a shit present. Which is quite fucked up behaviour for a child, if you think about it.

Still hate presents to this day.

#55

It’s very empathetic behaviour for a child actually and speaks volumes about you x

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#56

Very near my home town is Otter Nurseries

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#57

Count yourself lucky. I got a ladies fold up bicycle from a car boot sale.

#58

Desperately wanted and never got one of these

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#59

A lad at school told me about Marco van Basten. We wagged school and went to his house and he had a lifesize poster of him. I asked ol’ ma Bugduv for one but best she could do was one of Chris Woods.

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#60

Desperately wanted the Ghostbusters Fire Station (I had all the Ghostbusters plus Marshmallow Man and the ambulance) but was told it was too expensive. Oh, and one Christmas I got Ultra Magnus instead of Optimus Prime. This was not good. Oh, I’m also part of the “wasn’t allowed a Mr Frosty” gang.

#61

Happily, my adulthood is full of light-hearted DiS appointments!