This One Shouldn’t Count

 

1. THIS REMiNDS ME OF,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

   Ah, memories. Of the greasy, oily fuel the dinky little engine used. Of those horrible “dry cell” batteries that could barely heat the glow plug, which was half the size of grain of rice. Of the smell, and the smoke, and how everything got covered in the oily exhaust after you finally got the damn little engine running after 90 million attempts. Of continually crashing the plane because the elevator was way too sensitive. Get it going, fly it half a circle a few inches off the ground, give the handle some “up”, and watch the plane instantly go vertical, straight up, over your head at 400mph on the end of the 25 foot wires, and straight down into the ground. Smash! However, the plastic parts were very flexible and resilient, so get out another 4 or 5 rubber bands and put it back together again and try once more.

   Seriously, until I was in my mid-20s I never knew that there was an actual real airplane this plastic toy SplatMaster crashing machine was based on. How about that?

   Posted by Rich K       03/19/2015  at  10:06 AM  



2. Drew - excellent imagery! Even if you took a little poetic license with the facts I like your version better.

   Call it an “over-arching meta-narrative”. It’s what SHOULD HAVE been true.

   Posted by ooGcM taobmaetS       03/19/2015  at  11:51 AM  



3. They also have one less truck as well.  What’s not to like about a ”twofer”?

   Posted by Mark Matis       03/19/2015  at  01:04 PM  

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