At the age of 14 I told my parents I wanted a pinball machine for Christmas. They told me we didn't have the room so my brother & I dug out dirt from from under the house so there was space for a pinball. All up we dug about 3 feet (1 metre) ... my parents saw we were keen and allowed us to have one (in our bedroom), we ended up with a EM called Hit the Deck
Also I'm one of the 70 or so Australians who pre-ordered WOZ from the Australian distributor, who closed shop before the WOZ's arrived and the new owners would not honor the payments - it looked like we had all lost our money. Through government consumer protection authorities and selling the 22 WOZ's that did arrive it now looks like we'll all get our money back - what a journey that's been! Anyway I now own a RR WOZ but wont pre-pay for a pin ever again