Terrible ParentingMy parents used to lock my brother, sister and I in the car while they went to the pub for a "quick one" after work. This quick one might last several hours, during which they would send bottles of Indian Tonic Water to us by way of refreshment.
On one particularly cold evening, bored stupid, we lit a small bonfire on the back seat of the car using the cigarette lighter and the contents of the glove box. We owe our lives to passing winos. (BTW: Please no more Maddie or Jesus gags, they've been done.)
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 16 Aug 2007, 9:47)
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I still get tearyWhen I remember the Christmas I woke early to unwrap my huge pressie and discover a second-hand Raleigh Chopper. It was rusty and had a partially flat tyre. And the back wheel hade been swapped with another bike (that wasn't a Chopper). I realise now that my parents were poor and couldn't afford a new bike. But still...
My first stereo was a second-hand car stereo that my dad screwed under a shelf and rigged up with a home-made transformer to the mains. The cassettes got so hot that some of them partially melted.
This year I got my first new bike (a Trek road bike). I'm 35.
My keyboard is moist with tears.
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