[time-nuts] OT: At the Flea

[Tom Holmes]

It's the kid's father who is 'too dangerous".

Tom Holmes, N8ZM
Tipp City, OH
EM79

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> Subject: [time-nuts] OT: At the Flea
> 
> > Too bad it doesn't need the EPROMS.
> >
> >> > Folks,
> >> >
> >> > At MIT Flea this morning I bought a few things I just couldn't
resist.
> [snip]
> 
> At the same flea, outside in the lot after the rain had stopped, I saw a
> kid, maybe 10 years old in a cowboy hat. He found a roughly 1950s Gilbert
> chemistry in near perfect condition with, as the kid put ir, "with
> chemicals and glass test tubes". I've never seen a kid so happy. The
> seller wanted $10 and the kid bought it.
> 
> A few minutes later, I saw the same kid looking very glum. I asked what
> was wrong and he said his dad had made him return the chemistry set...  it
> was "too dangerous".
> 
> THAT is what's wrong with America today, IMO.
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> -John
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