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Did any of you have a tendency of breaking your toys when you were children?

I did! And after getting though all mine I used to take my sisters and break them too. I'll tell you why I'm asking later.....
 
Used to run my Tonkas from the top of the concrete steps out into the street...

When I got older I tried to take care of my toys, but invariably my younger siblings would aid and abet in the distruction of anything worthwhile. As a consequence, my toys were treated rather roughly.

If you are asking if I strapped firecrackers to my GI Joes or took hammers to my toy cars, no.
 
Ah ok.. My parents used to demonise me for having a tendency to break my toys and sometimes they refused to buy me certain toys and hide my sister’s toys because of this reason. I never used to do it out of anger or frustration I just had a complete fascination of the inner workings of the toy and discovering the inside of it and why it functioned the way it did. I think it says alot about me now as an adult. Just curious to see if a site like this attracts them kind of people. I'm doing it again by opening a thread like this lol
 
as the youngest of three girls, I was encouraged to do and act "like your sisters".
My oldest sister was given a "talking "doll one christmas......... and yes i did pull it apart and NO i couldnt put it back together. Also, it wasnt out of spite , I did honestly just want to see how it worked.
When I was sick as a child and confined to hospital for a month, i demolished 3 transistors and a portable television set......(due to boredom, i guess).
But to answer your original question........ Yes, I too, have pulled stuff apart to see how it works.
 
Postmaster said:
Ah ok.. My parents used to demonise me for having a tendency to break my toys and sometimes they refused to buy me certain toys and hide my sister’s toys because of this reason. I never used to do it out of anger or frustration I just had a complete fascination of the inner workings of the toy and discovering the inside of it and why it functioned the way it did. I think it says alot about me now as an adult. Just curious to see if a site like this attracts them kind of people. I'm doing it again by opening a thread like this lol
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OK.

My brother doesn't post here, but one of my favorite childhood stories is the time he took my mother's *brand new* watch that she got for her wedding aniversary and dissected it in the back yard "to see what made it tick." She never got to wear it, but she wore his butt out with a paddle and a vengeance! You could get away with it back then...

I guess I wasn't as concerned...I was content with the diagrams and schematics and engineering drawings. I still love mechanical drafting, I see it as an art in itself. I can look at exploded diagrams for hours. So I was always happy with the textbook explanations. Just looking at something didn't satisfy me, I guess I wanted to know why things were the way they were, not just that they were.
 
Yes, sooner or later anything mechanical or electrical would be internally investigated.
 
Funny how this to many parents could seem like a negative trait of a child but it's actually a positive one.
 
I used to perform "experiments" on "terminal velocity" with some of my toys (as well as several pairs of glasses [yeah, I wasn't exactly a "kind and gentle little lady" growing up.])

My brother, on the other hand, was a bit of a pyromaniac (he scorched a couple of tables and set a creek on fire when he was younger [I don't know how he did it, so don't ask.])

Funny thing is, I grew up to be the saner of the three. :rolleyes:

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine
 
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OOOH! OOOH! I didn't think of pyromania... :D Unlike my brothers, I didn't get caught. But I did scare myself pretty good once (gasoline), and that finally stopped that.

However, no toys were ever involved in the flames of my indiscretion...
 
juantoo3 said:
If you are asking if I strapped firecrackers to my GI Joes or took hammers to my toy cars, no.
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oops...yes.

And build model cars and then pour a blop of plastic glue on the plastic axles and melt them down to low riders...

Model airplanes...attach them to the whirlybird sprinklers and turn it on...or the revolving closeline...

take it apart...everthing...always had extra parts when we put it back together...

started my curtains on fire with a science experiment...you can't get those chemistry sets we had...3rd grade I was...my own bunsen burner...and darn near a full periodic table of elements...can't imagine how much of that is banned for sale to adults now!! And we could order replacements by the pound!
 
My mother used to babysit this one/two year old girl who brought over her toys, some of which had electronics in them.

I'd get a screwdriver and open them up to have a curious look at the circuits inside. I imagined that one day I'd be working with circuits and electronics. I never got much pocket money and that was why I did it.

I swear I never broke any of her toys.

But I used to get in to trouble for dismantling other people's toys.

greymare said:
are we all born pyros??? I know i like it........ and so do my boys, but thankfully, they have respect for fire as well.........
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I never played with matches as a child. Anything fiery got me scared. If I was to play with matches now, I'd do it outdoors, in case I set the house on fire. My stove doesn't have a lighter. I have to actually light a match first to light the stove.

But that isn't to say fire has never been fun . . .

I went to a friend's house once as a teenager and my friend (who was being naughty) set a tissue on a table in a kind of cone shape and lit it in front of his mother while she was on the phone. I think I can still remember the look on her face. The cone-shaped tissue flew up like a rocket. I thought it was funny, but I don't know if his mother felt the same way.

I should try it myself one day. It's my chance to be naughty after all these years of being well-behaved.
 
Only took things apart when i had permission. I tried to get electrical training, but it just wasn't available. I once connected a dead battery to an electrical outlet. Didn't have permission for that.
 
Dream said:
I once connected a dead battery to an electrical outlet. Didn't have permission for that.
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Oh no!!!! What happened next? I can just imagine . . .

A big bang, an explosion, metal fragments and acid or alkaline spilling all over the place.

What were you trying to do? Recharge the battery?

I should try that myself one day.:D
 
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