Kenny squeeze toy

Kenny Squeeze ToyThe Kenny Squeeze Toy or stress reliever was given to me by my colleagues when I was working as a representative in the University Senate at the University of Oslo back in 2001. They were getting frustrated with my habit of clicking the buttons of any and all ball point pens in the vicinity during meetings.

Unfortunately for them the Kenny stress reliever turned out to be an excellent prop for my Kenny impersonations and only lead to further distractions during the meeting.

Around the same time I needed to buy a new winter jacket because my old one was getting very old indeed. In fact it was my fathers old Tenson arctic coat bought when he moved to Namsos above the Polar Circle in 1973. At the Tenson store they had a modernized version of the same jacket in many different colors including bright orange. The jacket had a huge hood with the option of a fur lining around the edge and I was seconds away from buying the orange one when I realized the size was all wrong. I ended up buying a black jacket instead and with that my career as a Kenny impersonator was stalled before it even got out of the starting block.