Joe,
At least you got to play with chemistry. My parents would not let me have a chemsitry set when I was a kid and the only thing I got to do was the typical school chemistry experiments which were just mild.
I got into electronics and computers because I liked it, and my first two notable experiments were:
1 Almost electrocuting my Father!
2. Learning just how much voltage it took to make a full grown frog explode. In my Mother's kitchen.
Ron
