Did this ever happen to you?

[steve B]

Not with cards, but with a couple other things.

One party we went to when I was 3 or 4 they had soda with pictures under the caps! Baseball players! I gathered up a couple pockets full of them, only to have mom declare on leaving that we weren't keeping anyones dirty old bottlecaps and out they went. I'm not sure what bugged her, I was always bringing home stuff like frogs, snakes turtles, bugs, fish...........

Later on I had a Cape Kennedy playset with springloaded rockets. The big one didn't really work, but the little ones were pretty good, going maybe 6 feet up. Then comes the news article about how kids are putting their eyes out with the rockets and all the ones that worked got tossed despite my protests that I wasn't stupid enough to fire it ay myself. This made the set basically a metal suitcase with a totally lame rocket and a bunch of plastic fuel truck and fire extinguisher guys.

I'm sure there was other stuff too.

Steve B