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KAMY SMELSER
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Re: Childhood Stories

Adventures with Buster

I didn't have normal toys growing up as a kid. Instead of playing with video games, dolls or toy guns, my friends and I entertained ourselves with an office chair named Buster for the entirety of my childhood. We attached useful gadgets to the arms of Buster like light switches and coat hooks and turned this chair into what felt like a rocket ship. We would tie this rolling office chair to the back of a drivable lawnmower with a rope and my older brother would swing us around until it lost a wheel or someone learned how to fly from being swung too fast. This would take place in the middle of our suburban neighborhood and for some reason our neighbors were completely okay with this. Eventually Buster lost all of his wheels from being smashed into too many trees and we had to retire him to our garage until we found a new rolling office chair, his name was Buster 2.0.