When I was five years old, I made a little play-dough man by unbending paperclips, winding them together and wrapping the play-dough around the wires. I must h

When I was five years old, I made a little play-dough man by unbending paperclips, winding them together and wrapping the play-dough around the wires. I must have spent at least a half-hour on it. I went out onto my street and showed it to a neighborhood kid, who promptly grabbed it away from me, crumpled it up, then threw it on the sidewalk and stepped on it. So, yeah.