I wish my kids could have experienced long summer days where they could leave the house at the crack of dawn, stay gone all day as long as they were home for supper without all the worries that make that a stupid thing to do today. That was long before everyone had cellphones too. If my bike was gone, my parents knew I was gone.
I was a kid that enjoyed projects too. My buddy and I had loads of fun taking a set of $5 walkie-talkies and hooking them up to model train transformers and huge antennas outside our windows to increase their range. Those toys would barely work from one end of the house to the other normally. We got ours to work between our houses over two blocks apart.
As far as what I did on my own, I have some fond memories of my parents being afraid to touch anything in my room for fear of what I had wired up to it. There was a big rug in my room with more wires under it than Ma-Bell. Whenever a fuse blew in our house, it was automatically assumed to be my fault. Good times.
I was a kid that enjoyed projects too. My buddy and I had loads of fun taking a set of $5 walkie-talkies and hooking them up to model train transformers and huge antennas outside our windows to increase their range. Those toys would barely work from one end of the house to the other normally. We got ours to work between our houses over two blocks apart.
As far as what I did on my own, I have some fond memories of my parents being afraid to touch anything in my room for fear of what I had wired up to it. There was a big rug in my room with more wires under it than Ma-Bell. Whenever a fuse blew in our house, it was automatically assumed to be my fault. Good times.