People I went to preschool with. (from memory)

Mike u.

David d.

During our childhood, mike was a little socially inept, but typically did whatever he wanted.

No mike, that’s not an “invention”, and it’s certainly not a machine that could ever help you find your mother. Why don’t you see if she is working out in the garden.

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This is where I would have placed some identification or explanation of the machine and/or its intended purpose. Mike opted not to do so, leaving any explanation conspicuously absent until finally he asked if I liked the mom finder he had invented.

On the weekends we broke into the science building of a college which was located on the block directly in between our houses. We stole everything we thought might be useful for the afternoon’s entertainment. Later that day we would find ourselves at the top of a lead painted back staircase in an enclosed room mixing unmarked, intensely colored chemicals at will. Mikes mom would be really pissed most weekends (she was a chemist).

David and I fought about everything.

He was prone to nosebleeds.

We loved to try to dig to china but usually got into brawl before we made it… and we fought dirty.

Once we found clay and made sculptures in his back yard. I molded the likeness of my grandmother from the neck up (I only said it that way because well… bust?).

When we played guns, no one ever died. Severely hurt maybe.

We made spears out of sharpened sticks and threw them at each other until we met the man with the hard hat working on the transformer behind David’s house. He had one eye and he told us exactly how it happened. Amongst other common interests, he and his friend also loved to dig to china.

Upon further inspection the so called “transformer” was just a big metal box that never did anything. Ever.