I was an inquiring and exploring child. Since my dad is a bit of a garage sale nut, our family always had an overstock of completely useless crap that accumulated in the garage (my future bedroom). One of my favorite pasttimes was sitting in the garage for hours, taking apart all the electronics and putting them back together. I would make neat little piles of all the screws and try to remember where all the parts went after I reached the heart of the device and went "Huh!" However, if I couldn't get it all back together, I would take it all up onto the roof and smash it all to bits on the sidewalk like a normal child.