I adored Tonka Trucks when I was a kid. I never owned one, though. I would play with my neighbors'. I would get good and muddy between this and our constant quest to build an underground fort. We would kindly relocate any earthworms we happened across.
I was fairly fixated on these and Hot Wheels, probably at least partly because I wasn't allowed to have any. I'm a trans guy, and though I don't ever remember any childhood proclamations that I was a boy, my parents pushed really hard all things girly on me (while my sister was allowed to be a tomboy), so I wonder if I did say things and just don't remember because I was too little. I kept getting Barbie dolls. Know how I "played Barbies"? I took out the Barbie box, and spent all afternoon taking over the foyer building a Barbie house out of blocks and tapes and Legos and whatever else I deemed good building material. Then I would dress the dolls and put them in their hosue. The end. 😂
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