[SamAdams76]

When I was growing up in the 1970s, Lego sets were much simpler affairs. More complicated at the time were Erector sets that were made of metal and came with little motors and such as well as little wrenches to tighten the nuts that held it all together. I don't think Erector sets are much of a thing these days.

My mother though used to buy these 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzles that we would have to use the entire dining room table to put together. When those puzzles were coming together, we'd have to eat in the kitchen standing up for weeks at a time. Almost always, a piece or two would be missing. I think the dog ate them or they fell to the floor and got inadvertently vacuumed up. It's been a long time since I put together a jigsaw puzzle.

My own children were big on Legos and nothing worse than walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night in your bare feet and stepping on one of those pieces.

[deport]

Many years ago as I was growing up I had a cousin that built
a replica of the Huey P Long bridge crossing the MS River in
Baton Rouge, La. using toothpicks.