My Wife as a young girl idolized her father , although her sister was like wise with her mother, how ever my wife reminds me of a time when as a little girl her father would sing to her the song ( the little boy that Santa clause forgot.) then once sang she would burst into tears, as then the imagination kicked in as the song went on,
evidently he sang this to her from time to time, so I assume she like many of us as children could easily be impressed by say a song. story or anything else ,and even today she said he was wicked as he sang this many times to her as a child, he wasn't nasty but seemed to get a kick out of seeing her cry ,, …….wicked I some times wonder or was it devilment instead,
I had two uncles and they impressed me when I was a child with their
war time adventures, in reality they both told whopping stories and I was impressed by them thinking they were very brave , stories then of ships, which they served on, I really believed them but in later years I found them out to be virtually the opposite , as all they were trying to do was to impress me ,
they were both recruited to a merchant ship in a near by docks being then, just of the right age, during the 2nd world war , how ever the true story was they jumped ship time and time again,as the police were always calling to arrest them and take them back to the ship,.....so much for being impressed,
Q; were you ever impressed by some ones story when you were a small child and if so what do you remember of those times,