"Reality, what a concept."
-Robin Williams
>Does anyone remember those old die-cast metal Star Wars vehicles you
>used to be able to buy? There was a Star Destroyer that had a bay at the
>bottom and a little white ship that was supposed to be the one the
>Empire captured Leia in. Good weight to it, and very detailed.
>
>Anyways, I have had one since I can remember, but I hadn't seen it for
>years. On Saturday, I'm cleaning out my closet and come across a box
>filled with old stuff - GI Joes, Garbage Pail Kids, that Transformer
>that looked like a Veritech, some 20-sided dice and a
>Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book. The bottom of the box broke, and all
>this stuff from when I was a kid spilled out onto the floor. I cleaned
>it up but missed the Star Destroyer for some reason.
>
>Later, my daughter and I are picking up in her room, and I tell her not
>to leave big messes all over the floor because I hate stepping on little
>pieces of plastic left around by careless children. I go back into my
>room to get something, and when I come back, OUCH, I step on something
>sharp, BANG, I hit my head on the closet door, CRASH, I drop plates and
>utensils from breakfast all over the place, and HOPPING AROUND IN PAIN I
>step on the sharp thing again with my other foot.
>
>Moments pass as I leap unsteadily to safety. As I prepare the voice of
>absolute parental condemnation and compare what I want to say to my list
>of that which shall never be uttered aloud in the presence of a child, I
>notice the thing I stepped on happens to be my old Star Destroyer. This
>*blew* me away because when I was 7 my father stepped on that exact same
>Star Destroyer and gave me a speech just like the one I gave my daughter
>a few minutes before. I fall to the floor, the daughter runs over to see
>what happened, and I have nothing to say.
>
>Cruel fate. I have learned nothing in all these years.
>
>M
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marwan Saidi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:31 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Re:Penquin Fun
>
>
>>Or a pod racer, or my favorite....a Star Destroyer.....
>
>I have a Lego mini-Star Destroyer on my desk as we speak....
>
>
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