Nearly any ’70s toy will bring me visions of nostalgic grandeur, but not the Slinky. Those guys made it look so easy in the commercial, but I could never get mine to do anything remotely close to what they portrayed (except the “juggling” from hand to hand for that marvelous “Slinkety Sound”—yay).
Perhaps the only form of entertainment I got from those was having a friend hold one end while I walked as far away from him as I could with the other, to see how far it would stretch. Either that, or smelling that wonderful metallic zinc smell on my fingers after handling it. Did you ever get it to “walk down stairs?” I’d love to hear how.
Tags: Flashbacks
Maybe your carpet wasn’t shag enough?