My car park....
All the kids had those fancy Fisher Price multi-storey car parks for toy cars. I wanted one badly, so I asked my folks if I could have one for Xmas. "No, no" says R'dad, "you don't want to buy one of those, I'll get the joiners at work to make one".

And they did make me a car park. It wasn't multi-storey mind, but it did have a couple of sloping edges that ressembled drop-krebs, and it did have a fence that ran round the outside.... ok, so it was a flat piece of board, filed down at the edges, with a balsawood fence, and painted blue... not really a car park colour.

Still it worked, and I had it for years. I didn't know about old-men-with-limps who acted as parking attendants back then - but it did have a little blue hut in the corner of the car park for the little limpy get to sit in, if I had one.

I don't think I ever showed my actual disappointment, but from the age of 7, I never asked my folks for anything for Xmas, just in case the "joiners" found out about it.....
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 16:13, 3 replies)

I feel for you
cos I had a proper Fisher Price multi-storey car parks and it was ACE.

Edit: my mum gave it to cheridy when I was 8 because she thought I was too old for it.
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 16:15, closed)

HLT
Don't be so mean, appologise to the nice man.
( Cawl, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 16:17, closed)

@HLT
My son has one now. Everything comes to he who waits.

And I agree... they are!
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 27 Jun 2008, 16:21, closed)