Bingowings said:

My Force Beam (eighth birthday present from Gamley's) was 'red' but looked orange enough to convince a terrified girl at my birthday party that it was a bar from an electric fire I was whirling around, the added fact that I was dressed up in my Dracula costume probably didn't help sooth her nerves.

My uncle's girlfriend sat on it, bent it and made the end pop off which is possibly a factor in my preference for members of the same gender.

Oof... Yeah, I probably would have sworn off women in that case too.