A child with a hoop and stick, not similar to a Nintendo Gameboy.
“I’d seen all the American movies. ‘E.T.’, ‘Stand By Me’, ‘The Goonies’ and ‘Rosemary’s Baby’, so I had a good idea about what America was like. But, when we moved to Oklahoma from Enniscorthy, County Wexford, I couldn’t understand how nobody looked like John Travolta or Pamela Anderson, how they rarely wore shoes or socks, and how the adults all seemed to be chewing on pieces of straw all the time. I remember my first birthday party there. I asked for a Nintendo Gameboy, they were all the rage at the time, and some absolute bollocks got me this stupid bloody stick and hoop. Me ma made me play with it for ages out in the front garden, hours after everyone had gone home, even when it was dark. I was 19 for God’s sake. She even put videos of it online. She made me wear a dress too. She could be an awful argumentative oul’ bitch, me ma”.– Jim (27), Wexford, now Oklahoma.