Of Course

 

After looking in vain on the 'net for an actual Wrist Rocket, just like the ones me and Baby Brother had back in the day, after searching high and low for months and years, I finally snagged one on eBay when everything else failed me.

And it's in great shape, and could've been the one that sat on my dresser for years growing up, before someone threw it out when I left for college (mumble grumble).

{And, True Fact, Mom played the dreaded "You'll shoot your eye out!" card for years to deny us anything like a ferocious Daisy Red Ryder, but didn't bat an eye at purchasing us both Wrist Rockets, which diligent use proved the pair of us ten times the neighborhood petty terrorists of which she had no clue*, but which she was certain were far less dangerous because "every kid" in her Depression-era neighborhood had possessed an inner-tube powered slingshot in Mayberry when she was a child.}

This is the model than which no other lesser model will suffice, because all the other lame-ass attempts since the Wham-O classic, from the same people who brought America the Frisbee and the Hula-hoop, have been naught but 24K shite and half-assery crapola non pareil. (I'm looking at all you second-rate imitators who screwed that pooch, over and over again.)

So "Yay for me!", I finally got my hands on the genuine article.

And now, I find this:

SR-7

My vintage model cost me less than that, but I'ma buy 4-10 of the new ones, because

1) nobody else for decades had the balls to do it right;

2) nothing works as well as the original type, which it seems these folks followed to the letter, and besides being fun, it's actually one of the most practical survival items you could tote;

3) if I don't buy ridiculous numbers of them now, the sonsofbitches will go belly up before I do, and it'll be another 50 years before there's another correct one, and I ain't gonna live to be that old.

4) Free shipping for 4 or more.

*(The statute of limitations having expired, the details of which will be blogfodder in days to come. Watch this space.)