Well, I have an older brother, which means when I was a little kid, most of my toys were inherited.

And they normally came down to me a bit slobbered on and completely

lacking directions and so where I lacked instruction I had to make up for it in creativity.

And so there were two toys in particular that are in my mind tonight,

and I'm going to have to describe them to you.

One of them was this yellow piece of plastic that kind of had one big open round in and then a smaller open round in and was connected in such a way that it looked like a funnel

except that it had big holes running all through it so it was entirely incapable of funneling.

And so for me in my little world it became my hat and I would put it on my head and it didn't fit fully over the top.

I kind of had to wear it on the back because I had what a coach would call in later years a

deceptively large head and so I just kind of wore it on the back, but it was sort of like my crown that I would

wear as I sort of ruled over the domain of my toys and that's how that worked.

I also had this little red rubber thing that was kind of a,

just had one open end and then was kind of rounded out at the bottom

and it had been sort of accordioned on the side

so you could squeeze it. And it was this red rubber squeezy thing and

For me at my little world it sort of looked like a beaker and so for me it just became my mad science lab.

And I took it into the tub and it made bath time

tons of fun.

Because I would put different kinds of soap and conditioner

and all sorts of things inside.

And then I'd be like, I'm making stuff, what's happening in it?

And I kind of poured out and, you know, a little conditioner would come out and be like,

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