Short Response #2

OH MY GOD!!!!!

I remember this commercial to this DAY!!! I HAD to have a Yo-Yo Ball!!!

This appealed to me as a child, somewhere between the age of 8-12, sometime between 1990-1992. It was a yo-yo, that you couldn't really screw up. It wound itself. All you had to do was loop it around your finger and throw it at the ground, or up in the air, or at your little sister and it would come back to you. EVERYTIME!!! You could get it at every toy store, which in Baltimore back then was Toys-R-Us and Kay-Bee Toys. I was especially good at it because it is, in fact, a lazy kids toy. I remember having one because ALL my friends had one and we would all do Yo-Yo- Ball tricks with them. (Which, in reality, wasn't anything special...)

It appealed to kids because it was easy and fun to use. EVERYONE was using it in the commercial. It's marketed for boys AND girls, which showed an appeal to be a part of a group. You could yo-yo your leg, your friend, you could even walk up friggin' WALLS and yo-yo!!! This thing was NO JOKE!!! It actually made me think I could defy the laws of gravity and walk up walls and yo-yo!!! It made you feel like you weren't a part of the in-crowd if you didn't have one and that I could do unrealistic things. If you didn't have a Yo-Yo Ball, you were looked down upon in the yo-yo community. (Not a true fact whatsoever...)


Knowing what I know now, I can NOT, in fact, walk up walls while yo-yoing, or at all. I've tried and it is impossible.


I'll catch you on the flip side...


BK