Ah, kids today have it too easy! (grinch, grinch)
...when I was a 7 year old, I constructed a ~1/25th scale ski area diarama of boxes and sheets of poster paper complete with chair lift, skiers, ski patrol and snowmobiles. Imagine how my parents and grandparents felt when I spent about a day playng with their expensive holiday gifts only to spend the remainder of the week asking for bigger boxes and more poster paper to expand my ski area! And this was before I'd ever been to a ski area! 
If you ask an ex of mine, the one with a long alphabet after her name which includes a player hater degree, she'll tell you I still am a 12year old! Ask the one with a money degree in the same field and she will tell you she never tells any of her friends her diagnosis of them ... I think I know what to suggest she get me for the holoday, Thx @Dave Petersen!
Ah, kids today have it too easy! (grinch, grinch)
I am sure that has a lot to do with why, when I pointed to the metal edged wooded skis/bear claw cable bindings and bamboo poles in center city John Wanamakers sporting goods department, mom bought them for me.
As do I and thank you.
...I assume that would be if you dont buy the ultra gas chromatograph mass spectrometer at the top of her bithday gift list?
