I remember watching cartoons on Saturday mornings growing up. I would get up early as a kid on Saturday mornings and I would go down and quickly eat my cereal with milk and then I would park myself in front of the TV usually by seven in the morning but sometimes by eight.
I would watch the early cartoons which weren't very good but they were the lead-ins to the good cartoons. Then the Bugs Bunnys, the Yosemite Sams, the Flintstones would come on. I didn't watch a lot of Tom and Jerry but when they were on I would because that was what was on.
Then later on in the morning Spider-Man and other superhero shows, the cartoons were always awesome because they were just like comic books brought to life. Then by I guess 10 30 or 11 a.m. in the morning, Mom and Dad were up and smoking and having their coffee and it was time to go do something else.
I remember I got my allowance one time when we were in Hawaii and I was laying with my feet right at the foot of the console TV in our living room. I was laying on my back and looking at the screen because my parents always told me you can't get too close to the TV you'll burn your eyes out. So I figured my feet right at the base of the TV was close enough even though I wanted to be closer.
I was playing with my quarter which was one of the two quarters that I got from my weekly allowance. I was throwing it in the air and then having to go get it finally I put it on my forehead. I balanced it on my nose. This was all while watching the cartoons.
Then I put the quarter on my lips. I pushed it up in the air with my lips, then flattened out my lips so that it was against them. Then something happened on the cartoon that made me open my mouth going "Wow" and I sucked in the quarter and swallowed it! Because I was laying on my on my back I couldn't help it I was so scared it hurt going down
I went and woke up my mom and dad and I cried. They had me drink some water my mom put this thing over the toilet every time I pooped. I figured out later that it was a net and she was actually going through my poop to see if the quarter came out! Who knows that quarter may still be in me.
It was amazing watching Saturday morning cartoons!
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