Slinky

There are so many amazing and cool toys out there for today’s children. I am amazing at how creative, artistic and even sophisticated some of these toys have become. One of the simplest toys in my childhood was the slinky. Pretty much a coil which mirrored wave patterns. Some of the cooler ones were colored in funky bright ways, I even recall a glow in the dark one. On the commercials for this toy it would show kids walking their slinky down stairs and having what seemed to be so much fun. I never had a chance to have this fun with my slinkys.

I had a slinky playing deficiency. Actually I still have that deficiency. I don’t know what it is about this toy, no matter how often or little I touch it, I always seem to get it all tangled up and I have no idea why. Usually this deficiency results in having to throw out the slinky, or to turn to my lil sister and show her in hopes that she will be able to fix it. Its pretty sad actually, even yesterday I played with my sister’s slinky and after all of 2 mins it was in knots. I guess there are just some things, which are too complicated. Some might think its multivariate calculus but I think it’s definitely figuring out a slinky.