Things you really wanted as a kid (but never got)

[gary r]

for me it was the following

1/ A Monkey Bike
2/ one of those machines where you put a penny in and got a small individually wrapped mini dairy milk chocolate
3/ Kryptonic wheels for my skateboard
4/ A great big tonka toy
5/ Subbuteo
6/ A Sheath Knife (not to stab anyone ! just thought they were cool)
7/ A Silver Puch 10 speed bike (how many hours did i spend gazing in that shop window!)
8/ An Air Rifle
9/ An American football Jersey ( i dont know why ! blame World of Sport)
10/ Scaletrix (didnt even bother asking for that,far too expensive)

Looking back at my list theres lots of stuff that could hurt people!!!!Im not violent now i promise !!!! I could go on but 10 things seems a good place to stop.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

To be able to fly!
All those model trains and toys I never got
My own pair of binoculars, so that I didn't have to borrow my Dad's, which for a kid, weighed a ton and had to be rested on something flat just to see anything
My own camera (yes, ok, so I probably would have broken it, but, still, I'd have loved to have mucked about with one)

A chance to travel over the UK and Europe by train instead of going everywhere by c*r (probably why I have a mild allergy to long car journeys now).
Just to see ('properly') Roarers, EPBs and various other things such as class 302s, 304s, '307s and '309s would have made my life complete!
I wasn't asking for much - a day or two in London at some key locations would have solved most of it.
By the time I got the chance in the late '90s, most of it was already gone.

To have flown somewhere on holiday at least once. It all seemed so mysterious and exotic to me, particularly after, in about primary 2, I was talking to a kid in the playground as a plane flew over (contrail height), and he was talking about how you could look out and see everyone and everything down below, and what's more, he'd done it several times already and was going to again in the summer.
I was so jealous!

A huge mansion with a full size Snooker Table, swimming pool, a bar (the neighbours of family friends had a bar in their house, and I thought it was coolest thing ever! Don't get me wrong, it had nothing to do with drink, (of which there was none anyway when we kids appeared), I just liked to stand behind it, watch everyone and pretend I was in a restaurant serving people ).

My own T.V. so that I could watch what I wanted, not what ever pile of utter dross my big Sister wanted too (she still watches utter dross now).
For my Sister to **** off (preferably down a very large Crevice or off a big cliff) and leave me alone! (leaving the T.V. remote control behind, of course).

And, most importantly of all.......

A BIG plate of chips piled high, and with sausages hidden in the middle

 

[blockend]

A model railway with scenery that could be left intact instead of a loop on the dining table. A Raleigh Chopper. A longer relationship with the girl I went out with at 16.
The tragedy is how little I want any of them now. Except the permanent railway layout at home.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The tragedy is how little I want any of them now. Except the permanent railway layout at home.

If I had only known, I could have donated mine to you when we moved house

 

[Lucheni]

I wanted an air rifle too! I was devastated when the local sports shop stopped selling them. Looking in their window was one of the highlights of my day.

1 - Air Rifle (Doubly so once I started shooting with the Air Cadets)
2 - Recurve bow
3 - Slingshot
4 - Surfboard
5 - Swords. Cool "samurai" ones to put on my wall and wooden ones to play with. (Those hollow plastic things collapsed within minutes of playing. Sticks were great but after a while everyone would just looking for longer and longer sticks so as to have an advantage.)
6 - A pocket watch
7 - Juggling clubs
8 - A leather jacket to wear when I was riding on the back of dad's motorbike.
9 - A German Sheperd. (I did eventually get a fantastic Jack Russel-esque mongrel from a nearby shelter.)
10 - A new swimsuit!! One that didn't have to be tied on with string.
(My dad was terrible for "You'll grow into it". When I got a new second hand bike as a teenager, it was bigger than his! I grew to be all of five feet tall. I used to scoot it along with one foot until I was going fast enough to leap onto the saddle.)


I never really thought about it but I seem to have had a fondness for things that you shoot or throw. I bought a dartboard at a boot sale for a couple quid but dad set it up so the furthest you could get from it was about 8 feet and we could only really use it when he was at work because he said it made too much racket. Of course, when he said that my sister and I usually went outside instead and played tennis (Well, squash, I suppose) bouncing the ball off the side of the house. Looking back, I can't see how that possibly made any less noise.


The one thing I wanted most of all was for my sister not to have something. Is that mean?
I'd begged and pleaded for months for a GameBoy but my parents said I wasn't old enough. Every month I'd ask again. Surely I'm old enough now, my mates are old enough. When I eventually got one for christmas, with three extra games! Darkwing Duck, Kirby's Dreamland, and Yoshi's Cookie, I was about 10. I was so pleased and so proud... Finally, my parents thought I was old enough and could be trusted to have a GameBoy! ...Except my sister got one too. She's three and half years younger than me and at the time she still wanted to grow up to be a penguin or a butterfly. It really spoiled the whole thing.

I had to ask and ask, and wait until I was 10.
My sister just got one because I had one.

 

[Rapples]

A Pony

 

[Hover Fly]

A pet monkey. The only thing I can remember wanting and not getting, even though I had a chance of one when I grew up, my brother put me off them, in so many ways.
I also wanted a Triang 00 "Coronation" (model loco. to the uninitiated) but when ma went to get one the shop had sold out and I had to make do with a "Lizzie". I made up for it when I grew up by making a 0 gauge "Coronation".
I also wanted my father's pocket watch, a "Cortebert" (who used to make movements for Rolex), he promised to give me it when I started work, but brother played with it one day and managed to break it. I ended up with a brand new Sekonda which was probably just as good and I still use it.

 

[PaulB]

The things I wanted as a kid and never (or very rarely) got are exactly the things I have an unquenchable passion for now. If my parents knew how their restricting me doing things I wanted to do would make me mad for them when I got older, they would have considered it a job well done.

They wouldn't let me have a bike. This was due to expense and considering it 'dangerous'. So I've got three expensive bikes and one mid-range and I, you know, ride them occasionally.

They wouldn't let me go to Anfield as it was too expensive. I was desperate to go with an aching passion and I've hardly missed a game now for thirty-five years since.

They took me to the BASE of Mount Snowdon but wouldn't let me climb it as I didn't have the gear and the train up was too expensive. It left a void that I was desperate to fill and now I've got 106 Scottish Munros under my belt, every 3000 footer in England, Wales and Ireland and 47 peaks in Europe, America and Africa.

You can give your kids too much. It's better if you keep from them what will ultimately be good for them.

 

[Orange]

A Raleigh Chopper.

Got one decades later, for my daughter - which I have recently sold as she has grown out of it now.

 

[Saluki]

I was lucky enough to have a pony and a German Shepherd dog (followed by a Parsons Jack Russell called Captain Haddock).

What I really wanted was a toy Cheshire Cat. I asked for one every birthday and Christmas.
In the end, when I was 16 and had my first 'proper' job, I bought one. Had one ever since. Actually I have a bit of a collection now.

I also used to look at the Claude Butler 'racers' in my Dad's bike shop daily on my way to school. When I got a new bike for my 11th birthday it was a Raleigh 20 (old lady's shopping bike ) my friends nearly wet themselves laughing on a daily basis after Easter when we were allowed to cycle to school.
Never did get a CB, but I did get a Puch Pacemaker when I was about 15 1/2 cos my parents were fed up with my pleading and begging,and I saved up for ages from my Saturday job and presented them with about £40 of saved up money - a lot in 1979.

 

[numbnuts]

just a Scaletrix would have been nice

 

[tyred]

I'm still waiting for the hover car my science teacher told us we could have in the future.

 

[byegad]

I really wanted a trike with a proper freewheel, brakes and a luggage boot. OK I was 5 and it was 1956, tastes change.

Instead I got a fixed wheel Mobo with no brakes which was a bitter disappointment. What was worse was my parents reaction to my stunned silence when I saw it on my birthday. They thought I was pleased.

 

[XmisterIS]

I wanted a scalextric and/or the electrified version of the lego train set. Neither was practical because the flat was too small and my bedroom was a shoebox.

Other than that, I wanted a 486 (computer) when they first came out in 1990, my Mother balked at the price and bought me a ZX Spectrum 128K instead, which was 6 years old at the time and crap.

 

[MontyVeda]

I wanted a scalextric and/or the electrified version of the lego train set. Neither was practical because the flat was too small and my bedroom was a shoebox.

Other than that, I wanted a 486 (computer) when they first came out in 1990, my Mother balked at the price and bought me a ZX Spectrum 128K instead, which was 6 years old at the time and crap.

I wanted a Nottingham Forest football kit when I was 10... my mother balked at the price and bought me a red t-shirt and white shorts, claiming it was a notts forest kit... I'm still pissed off about it!