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In reply to the discussion: What was a memorable thing Santa brought you as a kid? [View all]Boxerfan
(2,533 posts)I'd say the most anticipated gift was a Wheelie popping slot car based on the "Little Red Wagon". That was the coolest by far.
My best useful present was a small but well stocked tool set-Metric!-for working on motorcycles-I still have some pieces left in my rollaway.
But the most memorable was a GI Joe doll I did not want. I have/had a problem with getting jingles stuck in my head. The Gi Joe dolls were being marketed 1st year
" Gi Joe-GI Joe-Fighting man from head to toe" etc.. I sang the jingle & my mother assumed I wanted one. I most certainly did not & would have told whoever asked. But there it was & I had to pretend I liked . To top it off my Mom had just purchased the accessories-a frog diver suit & something else. They were neatly packed over clear plastic mannequins. There was no doll so she had to go out to buy a doll for the present I already had-that I didn't want.
Never played with any of it & it would be highly collectable today.