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Aaaah! Here's another photo of Tony taken on his birthday. He's two years old.
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And look what he's got - a pair of amazing red shoes with white curly-swirly lines on them. Actually they're clogs - made of wood and painted red.
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Clogs?
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Dutch clogs. They were a present from his uncle John who had just married a woman from Holland. Tony loved those clogs.
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He thought he was 'a way-cool dude' and made everybody who came to their house look at him walking around in them. In fact, he became a right little show-off!
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It's true - he thought those red clogs were the best shoes in the world.
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I wouldn't be seen dead wearing clogs!
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You can laugh but I bet you wore some weird stuff when you were two.
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(changing the subject) Are these clogs a clue to guessing what he's studying at university?
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Maybe. And here's an even better clue... |
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Here's Tony aged nearly four. And now his favourite thing in the whole world was his 'Transformer'. That's what he's hugging there.
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He really loved that Transformer and played with it for hours. His dad asked him why he enjoyed it so much and Tony said he liked machines - especially machines that can make other machines.
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His dad told everyone that Tony was very 'imaginative and mechanically-minded' and that he wouldn't be surprised if Tony ended up being a mechanical engineer.
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Is this another clue?
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You're catching on fast.
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So he's studying mechanical engineering at university, is he? Learning how to design machines?
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Maybe. But don't forget the red shoes.
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(incredulous) He's learning to design shoes?
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You're getting warmer.
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I've got it - he's learning to design machines that make red shoes?
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Wrong.
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(getting frustrated) Red machines that make shoes?
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Let's get another clue. |
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Here's Tony when he was five. He went into his 'intellectual period' and decided he wanted to become world champion chess player because his best friend at school had learned to play.
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So he asked his mum for a chess set but she came home with a draughts set instead. Tony wasn't too impressed but his mum advised him to become world champion draughts player first.
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So what is Tony studying at university?
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Learning how to play chess?
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No. Remember; his father said he was good with machines.
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Learning how to make chess sets?
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Don't forget his grandmother said he might become a musician.
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(struggling) How to make musical chess sets?<
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