The Ghost of Christmas Past!

while at work my partner and I had some down time between calls and she needed to go to wal-mart and pick a few things up.. As we walked down the isle's of the store we ran past the toy section and what do I catch out of the corner of my eye????? There in the bicycle section up in the air on a rack at eye level. Sitting there so pretty in its nice little perch smiling down taunting me with the smerk on its green little face......


Yep there it is the inch worm!!!!!!! I thought I was going to fall out and die. Omg! as I exclaimed my partner looking at me funny then looking at the inch worm..

My partner. "ohhhh isn't it sooo cute!." she exclaimed
me glaring at her with nose flared out.

Alllll I ever wanted was a bicycle all my friends had bicycles i wanted one tooo just a bike didn't matter what color it was heck I didn't care if it was second hand rusted out and had no seat as long as it had two wheels to fly me down the rode with my friends.
One Christmas morning I wake up to see a big box under the Christmas tree oooo this is it .. this is my bike I ripped into the paper tackling the ribbon which by the way if my mother ever wraps a present for you it will take c-4 explosives to get through the ribbon!! I am struggling with the ribbon I finally stretch it out enough to slip my little finger under it as it cuts my circulation almost off i slide the ribbon off the edges and wham shred through the paper. tug at the end of the box to open it and there inside the box I see something that is not shaped like a bike. Its green......it has a saddle type seat and its yellow with something sticking up on it then several inches away from it I see something else yellow what is this. my nose krinkled up I slowly reach in and take hold of the yellow sticks poking up off the saddle looking seat and I slowly pull it out of the box head tilted to one side as I am examining this thing I am pulling out of the box........ I walk around it looking it over ....
....there on the floor out of the box in full light for me to see is a shiny green bug smiling looking soooo friendly and innocent with its yellow hat on its head and the yellow seat the sticks are its antlers and are made for you to hold onto as you sit on its seat.....Ok its not a bike but hey its got potential. right? you would think right?.......
its time to try the inch worm out.....sit on the back push down .. the head and tail stretch out bounce up and they come together and you begin to move ok this is fun .. time to take it outside and meet up with your little friends oooooo what is it?!?!? ..its a bug.....well its an inch worm . I didn't get a bike but i got an inch worm. I hop on my little bug with its smile, hat and saddle and take off with my friends and they leave me in the dust.. I am hopping down the road up and down up and down hopping..... HOPPING!!!!! watching my friends get further and further away. they would circle back of course and ride extremly slow beside my hopping down the rode self. some of them almost falling to the side they were having to ride so slow lol of course we would swap turns on the inch worm everyone thought it was cool and fun but me to a point disappointed not to get a bike but had a fun ride... I really hated the inch worm but was enthusiastic about it to my parents. I think the inch worm is the only toy I remember the most over the years. do not get your child an inch worm thinking it can ever replace the hopes and dreams of a bicycle!! its just wrong!! and dream crushing....... The second thing I always wanted was a doll house you know the one if your a girl the huge plantation style doll house with the family and all the little furniture yes i wanted one and still do if i ever get my hands on one I swear it will be put in a glass case with an alarm system all around it and dare anyone to touch it!! but I got the next best thing....
I remember and spent hours playing with my weebles wobble haunted house and my scooby doo and the mystry inc. gang weebles and winnie the pooh tree house with the weebles I just couldn't find any pics of the weebles charactors...






I would sit in the floor of my bed room and solve mysteries for hours then I would play with winnie and tigger and go visit christopher robin and find honey for pooh bear lol omg such memories? What are you memories are they good bad or mixture of both??
Do you remember the little jingle for the weebles??.. "weebles wobbles but the don't fall down!" yeah its embeded in my memory to every time i think of them lol.