There was something about a music box that always made me itch to force it open and look inside to see how it worked.
Once, at my aunt’s house, I saw an antique music box with a ballerina that moved round and round with music. Giving in to my curiosity, I tried to open the inner lid. And catastrophe happened. The figurine broke and I was left holding its upper part while the lower half was attached to the mechanism and was still rotating with the music.
My immediate action was to leave the scene of destruction and relocate. Unfortunately, there were witnesses. From that day onwards, I wasn’t allowed near any music box or even anything mechanical that could be broken by a six year old.
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Written for FSS hosted by Fandango
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Ah, glad to know I was not the only one “itching to figure out how those music boxes worked” 🙂
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Haha! I’ve written this as fiction but I’ve done many such adventures. Un fixable in the end!
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Yip, I have had a few unfixables😊
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Haha! 🤣
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Lol😊
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💖
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So did some one apply Glue to put it back 😀
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This is fiction but I did break many things trying to find how they worked. Thanks
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Curiosity is a good thing and it probably helped you into becoming the interesting person that you are.
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Thanks Jim! Yes, kids need to be curious.
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Just the kind of thing I used to do!
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Haha!! It is a mystery that needs to be solved.
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music doth soothe this savage beast
which is in no way
the least benefit
of having superior mental capacity
and also
zoning out
oh oh
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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Oops. I loved my grandma’s music box but it was always tantalisingly out of reach. 10 kids taught her well.
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Yup, kids are curious and sometimes destructive too.
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Whoops!
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😱
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I think I had a ballerina music box – but it wasn’t a very expensive one and it got lost in one too many moves.
I think they should have gotten you an electricity kit when you were older. Or given you something that was already broken so you could satisfy your curiosity needs rewarding at every age! 🙂
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Thanks Jules, you’re right. I did get to satisfy my curiosity as I grew older and would help my father in fixing broken appliances.
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your writing relates easily, we all want to know how things work and at six that curiosity will get us into trouble 🙂
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Yes, it is that age. Thanks Kate.
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Oops! But what six-year old, acting out of curiosity, hasn’t broken something that she or he wasn’t supposed to touch. Great tale, Sadje.
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Thanks a lot Fandango. Fun starter!
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Haha. I agree. Music boxes are intriguing. Great story, Sadje.
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Thanks a lot Jeff
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Welcome, Sadje. Always.
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💖
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The ballerina may have been tired anyway hehe
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Yes, dancing all the time must be tiring. Thanks
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☺️
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😃
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Upcycling
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Yup!
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Back to the roots 🤖
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May be recycled as something else.
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A must nowadays
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Absolutely.
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Join us
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👍🏼
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Magdeburg
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Oh I see
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I must say I’m really impressed by the nice write-up you have here. You actually did a great job, unlike most bloggers I’ve seen on the internet talking about this same topic. Just reading the first few paragraphs, I was already locked in the content. Bravo and keep up the good work.
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Thanks.
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