Jets is a shop at the top of Caerphilly town that specialises in models. Not the models you see in magazines unfortunately, but the kind that you build and put together from scratch. Slightly less enthralling I must admit, but still, it has its niche.
While they do sell a good and wide variety of these models, ranging from trains to planes to automobiles, the reason I remember this shop so well is that when I was a young teenager, they used to sell the most awesome BB guns.
Not that I'm some kind of gun nut or anything, but at the time all of my mates had one and I caved to peer pressure as is normally the case, and as such, I needed to get my hands on one. In Jets, I'd hit the mother load; BB machine guns, BB shotguns, BB everything: targets, sights, ammo, they had the lot. Sadly, on a lowly teenager's wage I could only afford the cheapest one they had, but at least I managed to get one.
Looking back, supplying a teenage boy with an air pistol might not have been the safest thing to do on their part and probably broke every health and safety protocol known to man. But damn it, they managed to put a temporary smile on my spotty teenage face and that's good enough justification for me.
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