OddThinking

When you are a kid, making art is the only job that you can do to pay your way. Colouring-in is the closest you have to real responsibility.

It was a tough bet to accept. At that age, a dollar was a lot of money for me. I was going to have to make some sacrifices, scrimping for the first five years until the debt was paid, but then I was going to be on Easy Street, collecting twenty cents a year, every year, for virtually no effort.

At what age did boys make model airplanes? At that tender age, I had never been so mortified – it absolutely horrified me what this young sales assistant thought.