Earliest Memories of the World Outside (was Forcing Kids To Watch History Made)

[lucky_kari <lucky_kari@yahoo.ca>]

While Elkins lived a horrible childhood underneath real cameras 
disguised as sprinklers, I, of course, lived a childhood under 
sprinklers which I thought were cameras. 

In fact, it was only in Grade 11 that I mentioned to someone 
something about not doing something in front of that video camera 
over there, and they said , "What? That's a sprinkler."

So, except when I was home, where my parents didn't have a sprinkler 
system, I lived with the knowledge that I was under pretty much 
constant surveillance.

I lived in the Police State and I survived!

Amy Z wrote:
>Eileen, your childhood take on political reality made me LMAO. 
>The world must have seemed a very exciting, if dangerous, place. 
>And I would love to meet your parents.

Oh, they're very ordinary. Molly and Arthur Weasley. Do you think 
they did anything to encourage my paranoiac fantasies? Now, as a 
kid, I thought they were very twisted and strange people, because 
they both were fans of a horrible book where the hero was a 
murderer, and sympathized with him. 

That boggled my mind. 

Years later, I read the book: "Crime and Punishment," and was very 
amused by my childhood memory.

Eileen