Rocket Cars!

So who knows how a car works?  The real way a car works with the pistons, and the tiny explosions causing the pistons to move up and down and whatever else needs to happen to make that car move.  

I don't know how a car works, all I know is that you stick the key in, make sure you have gas and fluirs are good, then you're good to go.

As a kid my knowledge was limited to so much less, but the imagination had no limits whatsoever.

There were so many times when I would sit in the passenger seat and see the cars in front of us, then I would wonder how the cars work.  The solution was simple and easy ... the way cars would work was because of the "rockets" at the back of them.  You know the rockets I'm talking about right?  The exhaust where all the crap comes out of.  

For me these were the rocket blasters that would spit out all the push the car needed to make it go.  I pictured it like a rocket ship but without the fire and smoke (well some cars had smoke coming out of them so that was different), the cars would be propelled by the rocket blast.  

Some cars had two of them, so that would make them go faster!  The trucks had them on the top and the holes were bigger, so I figured that it was needed to push them since they were bigger.  Planes had the giant ones and well I actually had that part right about the planes since they are sort of rockets strapped to the wings!

My whole world came crashing down once I was taught that the rocket blaster holes were actually where all the garbage would come out from.

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Cousin See, Cousin Do

What I'm talking about here is what Ody seems to do, I end up doing it sooner or later.  We seem to end up doing the same hobby at on point or another, usually he'll get into it first then I'll come follow.  I was thinking about this and I thought it started with the DJ equipment that he had ... but it actually goes further back then that.

When we were little kids, my parents would never let me out of the house, play outside, go to the park or anything like that unless Ody was going.  They would always ask "is Ody going to be there?" and if the answer was yes, then it was never a problem - so that's a good thing, my parents saw him as a good example!

The bad thing ... is that everything Ody had, I wanted too!  I think it all started with the Matchbox garage set.  It was a parking garage for Matchbox cars that we bought from KB Toys.  There was this plastic spread that would have the outline of the garage and also the parking spaces lined out, then you would put the plastic garage set over this, I remember there was even a toll booth (I did a backflip on Ody's garage set, but that's another story all it's own).

Ody had that parking garage and I wanted it too!  So I asked and begged my parents for one, they ended up getting it for me since I couldn't go to Ody's house everyday.  From then it just snowballed onto other hobbies.

It went into video games, we both had Atari's, then it went into skateboards, then baseball, basketball.  The hobbies continued and I followed right along.  That's when it all started, when we were little kids, with simple toys, then bigger and more expensive things ... until we became young adults and then adults.

Ody had the DJ set and I wanted to DJ!  So I ended up buying it from him and used it, then I actually DJ'd for a while after investing more and more into equipment and music.  Snowboarding came along as Ody sold me his old snowboard for cheap, so again he pushed me into the hobby!  After snowboarding, Ody had gotten into cars, but I couldn't as I didn't have my license and enough cash to support that hobby, which was a good thing or else I would be in more debt.  From photography, the guitar, computers, european cars, the list just won't stop.

I'm wondering what the next hobby will be that I'll influence him with, or that he'll influence me with.  He recently went sky diving and I've always wanted to go!  As soon as he told me about the sky diving trip, I started to search on eBay to buy my own parachute!  If you don't know me, one thing that comes out pretty quickly is when I get into a hobby, or really find something I like to do, I spend a ton of cash on it and usually buy everything with the bells and whistles - which is a bad thing!

Soooo I wonder what the next hobby will be ... bull riding?  Rock climbing?  Parasailing?  All I know is that whatever it is I should start saving now because the trend is that the hobbies are becoming more expensive.  From that simple $20 - $30 Matchbox garage set with $0.99 cars, to $500 cameras the price just keeps going up!

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Update on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 3:30PM by MONStar

I can't believe I forgot about this one ... but Ody also got me started on Metal Gear Solid.  I still have the original CD's for the PS1 that you let me barrow!  

Not really sure how you introduced me to this game, but you let me barrow your discs, and from that point on I was hooked!  Thank you sooooooo much!

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