Bizarre childhoods

[avengangle]

meleth and I are having a conversation wherein we have discovered that we both read too many Nancy Drew books as children and are currently lamenting the fact that we don't know how to pick locks -- like, the real kind. Not the kind you can do with a credit card (which I have done, by the way, with the owner of said lock watching me) or my parents'

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[meleth]

Carrying a flashlight is always useful. In fact, I must remember to start carrying my penlight in my purse.

[avengangle]

True story, that.

[seph_ski]

HA! I used to investigate all the time... flashlights, baby powder, magnifying glass, and all! Except Trixie Beldon was my idol and mentor. I hated Nancy Drew. She was too society-girl, too Barbie. Trixie could've kicked Nancy's butt! ;)

[avengangle]

I think the problem is no matter which series you started reading, you can't read any of the others because they recycled plots so often. Ben read the Hardy Boys; thought ND and TB were boooring. I thought the Hardy Boys read like a ripped-off ND and my library only had about 3 volumes of TB, so I never got into them.

But YAY investigating!

[seph_ski]

I also got to read my Dad's volume of Sherlock Holmes stories about the same time I was in to TB. :) Investigating rocks! \m/

[staggeronward]

I did once scale the side of my parents house onto the upstairs back porch and bust through the door cops-style. I really had to pee. I think my parents were so impressed by the fact that I'd scaled the house they weren't too pissed about the door.

[crepedelbebe]

Hee. Over time that Amelie userpic just gets more and more appropriate.