Immortalized Memories
I was cleaning up a few miscelaneous toys last night after my son went to sleep and I picked up “The Garbage Man”. Garbage Man is the small figure that accompanied a huge Tonka Recycle truck my son received last August for his 3rd birthday. This time, however, I took a moment to examine this particular toy because there was a familiarity in this small piece of posable plastic. All in an instant, I laughed out loud and grabbed my cell phone to snap a couple of pics of it in anticipation of this blog entry.
Let’s rewind a-lot-a-bit: I went on a blind date in high school and it wasn’t totally horrible but the guy had the personality of a rock. Also back then when I was a somewhat shallow heartless teen girl who wanted nothing more than to be seen with a hottie, I remember him being kindof a dumb jock and…well…kinda cross-eyed. Wooh! We never went on a second date for obvious reasons but occasionally I wonder what ever happens to people in my past that I haven’t seen in years. Now I can check him off my list. Thank you, TONKA, for immortalizing an old blind date of mine. And ironically…I wouldn’t be surprised if he indeed was a Garbage Man.
(Not like there’s anything wrong with that.)
July 28, 2008 at 10:55 pm
When speaking of garbage men, I always think of that episode of Married with Children when Peg and Al are going to their high school reunion and Peg tells Al he can’t say he’s a shoe salesman, he has to say he’s a garbage man, it’s more respectable. I never knew until I started dating Kev about the ins and outs. But prior to that, I would have thought that yes, all garbage men look like this.