-Patsy
Today, I was thinking of my favorite hobbies as a child. I was signed up for a lot of regular kid sort things, like ballet lessons or scouts and I had a lot of normal toys. I had a really big imagination, so I could usually think of something fun to do on days when I got bored with my regular toys. In hindsight, my creative hobbies were sort of weird. For instance, one summer, my neighbor and I formed the rock smashing club. There were a few cinder blocks in my back yard where we took larger rocks ("smashers") to crush up smaller rocks. We then stored the powdered remains in empty butter containers under a lilac tree. At the end of the summer, we dumped them out. We thought it was great fun, but when other friends visited, they never seemed to share our affinity for rock smashing. With all of the cool things the new millennium has brought us, the Rock Smashing Club probably wouldn't have taken off if it was formed today. If I were born 10 years later, my other childhood favorite hobby would have also been non-existent. While the invention of the compact disc has surely impacted the world positively, today's youth are missing out on a lot of fun-recording their own radio station on cassette tape. Maybe it was just my family, but we always seemed to have a few blank tapes laying around. Two of the coolest things a kid could have was a brand new blank tape and a tape recorder. We used to pretend to be DJs and record our own radio station complete with songs, commentary and commercials. Sometimes we would pretend to be celebrities and do interviews. Many times, we had to stop, rewind and record over what we were trying to say because we were laughing so hard. The really tricky part was adding the songs. I didn't own a lot of advanced technology so we had to hold another tape player up to the mic to record; it was really hard to stay quiet while doing this. We usually thought this was so fun, and replaying our own hilarious jokes triumphed over the shock of hearing your own voice ("Do I really sound like that?") I suppose kids now can make playlists and podcasts and things of that sort, but to me, the mix tape radio station will be a fine art. Is this something other 90's kids did, or is it up the same strange alley as the Rock Smashing Club?
-Patsy
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