When I was a kid...

GoldenPenguin · July 2014

- I called the paper mill in town the "cloud factory" because I was convinced that the smoke coming out of the smokestacks actually produced the clouds. I also thought that my grandfather was the coolest, because he worked at the Cloud Factory.

- My hometown is Jay, so I thought "jaywalking" was something you just did in my town.

- There weren't any other kids around where I lived, so I pretty much just had to play alone. I spent most of my time with the horses next door, and liked to run around, pretending that I was riding a horse in the Olympics, jumping over fences and stuff.

What were some of your "weird" kid things?

Dignity100 · July 2014

Nocturnal alligators totally lived under my bed!

There was an Assisted Living place and before we could read my mom told us it was the 'Bad Children's Home'

Man, I know I have a lot of these but that's all I can think of right now.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

My sisters and I used to pretend we were Native Americans and my little sister would sit in the middle of our play room and sing her Tribal Chant and @LaPeanut1018 and I would stop whatever we were doing and run circles around her like we were possessed lol.

I ate an Ant once and thought it tasted like Caffeine?

I used to take a running start to jump onto my bed because I thought there were monsters under there and I was also convinced that the clown from IT lived in my closet.

ShallowSeas · July 2014

"Back to the Future" was actually called "Adventures of the Great Calhoun" in my head...I have no idea where I came up with that.

I had no clue how my parents always knew how to drive to different places. Like, how did they know where they were going? So I just figured everyone had a little card in their glovebox that told them how to get to each place they wanted to go. Makes sense.

During the '96 Olympics, my little sister and I were obsessed with the US gymnastics, especially Dominique Moceanu. She was our favorite. We decided that we were going to become Olympic gymnasts as well, so we would put on our leotards and practice in the backyard. We even made our own balance beam. Clearly that idea did not go as planned.

I was the kid that brought home/fed every stray animal. At one time, we had 9 cats...only 2 were actually ours. The others were strays that I named and fed and my parents were not happy.

I found a Robin's egg in the grass in my backyard once. I decided that I needed to take care of it so it would hatch. I made it a little nest and kept it in our sunroom. I had it for a couple weeks and wouldn't hatch. One day I was walking with it...not sure where I was going...but I dropped it and it cracked...and it was all black inside. It was gross.

I wasn't afraid of ghosts or monsters...I was afraid of alien abductions. I was so certain that an alien was going to abduct me in the middle of the night.

I wanted a pet Ewok. I was so mad to find out they don't actually exist.

Peaseblossom55 · July 2014

I had a crush on Mikhail Baryshnikov when I was in elementary school.

I would spend hours in my room dancing and practicing dancing and routines. I used to pretend I owned a dance school I made up routines, designed costumes. My parents actually put a ballet barre and mirrors in our basement.

We would go to Wildwood every summer growing up and until I went to Disney for the first time ( which was 11) I thought it was the best place ever......

tuarceatha · July 2014

When I was a kid...

- I had an invisible enemy. Similar to an invisible friend, but she was bad at/wrong about everything. Then my mom birthed a sister and she became my real life rival.

- I wanted to have to wear glasses or braces or something of that sort to make me more interesting. Give me more character. I also REALLY wanted a secret admirer. I'll never know if I ever did (you know, if they were good at keeping that a secret), but I did fall for the "...I've had a crush on you for a long time, and was too shy to say/do anything" line a lot in my teens and 20s. I also married a guy that silently crushed on me in high school. Win.

- I introduced myself as Lynn at camp one summer. It is my middle name, but a name I had never and haven't ever used since. The camp counselors and other kids would call me by that name and I wouldn't respond/realize they were talking to me because my name isn't Lynn.

cu97tiger · July 2014

Before I could read, I thought that the letters at the bottom of the Wheel of Fortune puzzles were the answers. I thought my parents must not be very smart because they'd be guessing answers and I was thinking 'it's right there at the bottom of the screen!'

When I was 5'ish, I taught my sister how to flip the bird to my mother. I got in a LOT of trouble and I cried hysterically when my mom tried to make me say what that gesture actually meant. (I have no idea now if I actually new it was the 'f' word or not)

ShallowSeas · July 2014

Forgot one...

For 'summer school' I took a line dancing class in second grade. We were dancing outside and were on a break, and I happened to find like 5 teeny, tiny baby frogs, so since I was the kid that brought every stray animal home and claimed it as my pet, I put them all in my water bottle. I forgot about them though and set my water bottle on the counter. My mom went to wash it, opened the lid, and saw these little frogs swimming in it. She wasn't happy.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

Thought of another one....

I thought it was the coolest thing ever that I was born in Germany but I never actually learned the language. So once we moved to the United States and I started school, I used to tell all my friends that I knew how to speak German and I would just say some fake jibberish words that absolutely make no sense and say it was German lol.

phira · July 2014

- I was, without any explanation, terrified of the Joker from Batman. I was also under the impression that he and the Penguin were the same character. Either way, I was so scared of the Joker, I had to sleep with my closet light on for a few years. I was convinced he was going to murder me and my entire family.

- My mom was a huge Carly Simon fan, and I thought that "The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of" was "The Stuff that Dreams Tomato."

- I assumed that 16-year-old me would have blonde hair (curly, but with straight blunt-cut bangs) and braces (I thought they were something every teen got), and that I'd be a cheerleader.

- I have clubbed thumbs and for a long time, I thought I had normal thumbs, and everyone else had "finger thumbs."

[Deleted User] · July 2014

severmilli12 said:

Forgot one...

For 'summer school' I took a line dancing class in second grade. We were dancing outside and were on a break, and I happened to find like 5 teeny, tiny baby frogs, so since I was the kid that brought every stray animal home and claimed it as my pet, I put them all in my water bottle. I forgot about them though and set my water bottle on the counter. My mom went to wash it, opened the lid, and saw these little frogs swimming in it. She wasn't happy.

Hahaha! @LaPeanut1018 used to put those teeny tiny frogs in her tea set that she had on her dresser. She also forgot about them and closed the top to the dishes she put them in and later on opened them up to find the frogs not so alive anymore haha.

tuarceatha · July 2014

cu97tiger said:

Before I could read, I thought that the letters at the bottom of the Wheel of Fortune puzzles were the answers. I thought my parents must not be very smart because they'd be guessing answers and I was thinking 'it's right there at the bottom of the screen!'

When I was 5'ish, I taught my sister how to flip the bird to my mother. I got in a LOT of trouble and I cried hysterically when my mom tried to make me say what that gesture actually meant. (I have no idea now if I actually new it was the 'f' word or not)

lol

My dad told me what the F word actually means when I was a kid. I didn't understand that conversation until... 2000?

eilis1228 · July 2014

I have a really funny story that totally demonstrates that kids aren't racist.

When I was a kid, I had a few of the American Girl dolls. My neighbor across the street had Addie, and Addie's stories centered on her escaping from slavery via the Underground Railroad. My neighbor and I played together a lot, and we frequently brought our dolls over to each other's houses. One of our favorite scenarios was to pretend we were slaves escaping with Addie. I can only imagine the horror on our parents' faces if they ever heard us... me, a pale little white girl, pretending to be a slave with the little black girl who lived across the street. We had so much fun though! lol

LizzyTish88 · July 2014

One year during the Superbowl I was in the other room playing with my cousin and heard everyone cheering so I ran out and yelled "What's the score?!" And they responded "0-0", to which I asked "Whose winning?" I never lived that down. To this day if the score is tied, my family will ask "Whose winning?"

My cousin and I (We are 8 days apart so we were raised like twins) use to like to put baby powder into the toilet and flush it. We we try to make patterns and the best pattern won.

We also used to be rebels. When we were young we found a run down shack in the woods behind my grandma's house. We took her out there one day and she felt it wasn't safe so she told us not to go back there. We of course didn't listen so one day my uncle came out into the woods dressed as a gorilla and scared us. My cousin and I ran screaming, but the neighbor that we were with picked up a huge stick and started beating my uncle with it. He had to take off the head of the costume and beg the kid to stop. It was pretty funny!!

[Deleted User] · July 2014

southernpeach89 said:

Thought of another one....

I thought it was the coolest thing ever that I was born in Germany but I never actually learned the language. So once we moved to the United States and I started school, I used to tell all my friends that I knew how to speak German and I would just say some fake jibberish words that absolutely make no sense and say it was German lol.

HAHAHA! Kids are so dumb. :P

- In 4th grade, I had three friends that all got casts on their arms at the same time as me, so we formed a "cast club" and got our parents to give us money to order pizza for lunch and my teacher let us hang out in the classroom and talk about cast-related things, like color, itchiness, etc.

- My little sister and I were obsessed with the song Paradise Tonight by Charly McClain. We sang it everywhere we went. . . It wasn't until I was about 20 and she was 16 or so that we re-listened to it and realized it was a song about having really good sex with someone.

- We'd draw pictures and sell them for a penny. . . I tried to sell popsicles at a yard sale my parents had once, but I ate them. . . I shoplifted a ringpop, and tried to eat it in the back of the car, but my younger c*** sister ratted me out, so I had to return it and apologize.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

Oh, and I wanted to be Whoopi Goldberg more than anything in the world! When Corrina Corrina came out and those kinds of movies, she was my total idol.............. And I am about as white as they come.

ShallowSeas · July 2014

EisleyJoGo said:

southernpeach89 said:

Thought of another one....

I thought it was the coolest thing ever that I was born in Germany but I never actually learned the language. So once we moved to the United States and I started school, I used to tell all my friends that I knew how to speak German and I would just say some fake jibberish words that absolutely make no sense and say it was German lol.

HAHAHA! Kids are so dumb. :P

- In 4th grade, I had three friends that all got casts on their arms at the same time as me, so we formed a "cast club" and got our parents to give us money to order pizza for lunch and my teacher let us hang out in the classroom and talk about cast-related things, like color, itchiness, etc.

- My little sister and I were obsessed with the song Paradise Tonight by Charly McClain. We sang it everywhere we went. . . It wasn't until I was about 20 and she was 16 or so that we re-listened to it and realized it was a song about having really good sex with someone.

- We'd draw pictures and sell them for a penny. . . I tried to sell popsicles at a yard sale my parents had once, but I ate them. . . I shoplifted a ringpop, and tried to eat it in the back of the car, but my younger c*** sister ratted me out, so I had to return it and apologize.

Me and the kids at my baby sitter's would color on rocks and try to sell them out by the road...which was a country road that no one ever traveled down...

eilis1228 · July 2014

severmilli12 said:

EisleyJoGo said:

southernpeach89 said:

Thought of another one....

I thought it was the coolest thing ever that I was born in Germany but I never actually learned the language. So once we moved to the United States and I started school, I used to tell all my friends that I knew how to speak German and I would just say some fake jibberish words that absolutely make no sense and say it was German lol.

HAHAHA! Kids are so dumb. :P

- In 4th grade, I had three friends that all got casts on their arms at the same time as me, so we formed a "cast club" and got our parents to give us money to order pizza for lunch and my teacher let us hang out in the classroom and talk about cast-related things, like color, itchiness, etc.

- My little sister and I were obsessed with the song Paradise Tonight by Charly McClain. We sang it everywhere we went. . . It wasn't until I was about 20 and she was 16 or so that we re-listened to it and realized it was a song about having really good sex with someone.

- We'd draw pictures and sell them for a penny. . . I tried to sell popsicles at a yard sale my parents had once, but I ate them. . . I shoplifted a ringpop, and tried to eat it in the back of the car, but my younger c*** sister ratted me out, so I had to return it and apologize.

Me and the kids at my baby sitter's would color on rocks and try to sell them out by the road...which was a country road that no one ever traveled down...

We sold Kool Aid during the summer. A lot of times people would come by and just give us $1 and tell us to keep the Kool Aid. :-P

GoldenPenguin · July 2014

caseface5 said:

One year during the Superbowl I was in the other room playing with my cousin and heard everyone cheering so I ran out and yelled "What's the score?!" And they responded "0-0", to which I asked "Whose winning?" I never lived that down. To this day if the score is tied, my family will ask "Whose winning?"

When I was nine or ten, I got my first watch, and thought I was the coolest thing ever. I was in the kitchen one day, holding a glass of milk in the same hand that I had the watch on, and my mom asked me what time it was, and I turned my hand with the full glass of milk, and spilled it everywhere. I have NEVER lived it down.

I was also obsessed with the song "Footloose." My uncle had the cassette tape in his truck, so every time he came to visit, I would make him take me for a ride so we could listen to "Footloose." One day he came over, and I asked if we could listen to it, and he said it was broken (or he lost it, or something). Probably six or seven years ago now, we were talking and I asked him about the "Footloose" tape - and if he really broke/lost it. He said "No, but I was SO FUCKING SICK of that song, I couldn't listen to it anymore." It was hysterical.

At the neighbors barn, I would catch tadpoles in the pond that was in the pasture, and put them in the horse's water tank, and then pretend I didn't know how they got there.

I also always hid when I got hurt, because I thought I would get in trouble. I have no idea why. Good example - I didn't have those bead things on my bike spokes that made noise, so I came up with the brilliant idea that if I let my foot his the spokes while I was riding, it would make a fun noise. Obviously, that was a bad idea, and my foot went INTO the spokes, stopped the tire, and made me flip the bike straight over. It hurt SO BAD, but I didn't want to tell anyone because I thought I would get in trouble for being a damn idiot.

I'm honestly not sure how I survived childhood without bike helmets and additional safety equipment.

Blue & White · July 2014

I legit did not know divorce was an option before I was 13. It wasn't that I was born in the Bible belt - I was just in an EXTREMELY small community where apparently everyone loved each other or something. Oddly enough, when my family moved away at 13, a lot of my friends' parents got divorced. So maybe when your kid is 13 you can divorce? I DON'T GET IT!

My sisters and I made up dances ALL THE TIME and thought we were SO COOL. I can't imagine how many "dances" my parents had to watch.

I loved Duck Hunt. That was such a good game.

ShallowSeas · July 2014

GoldenPenguin said:

caseface5 said:

One year during the Superbowl I was in the other room playing with my cousin and heard everyone cheering so I ran out and yelled "What's the score?!" And they responded "0-0", to which I asked "Whose winning?" I never lived that down. To this day if the score is tied, my family will ask "Whose winning?"

When I was nine or ten, I got my first watch, and thought I was the coolest thing ever. I was in the kitchen one day, holding a glass of milk in the same hand that I had the watch on, and my mom asked me what time it was, and I turned my hand with the full glass of milk, and spilled it everywhere. I have NEVER lived it down.

I was also obsessed with the song "Footloose." My uncle had the cassette tape in his truck, so every time he came to visit, I would make him take me for a ride so we could listen to "Footloose." One day he came over, and I asked if we could listen to it, and he said it was broken (or he lost it, or something). Probably six or seven years ago now, we were talking and I asked him about the "Footloose" tape - and if he really broke/lost it. He said "No, but I was SO FUCKING SICK of that song, I couldn't listen to it anymore." It was hysterical.

At the neighbors barn, I would catch tadpoles in the pond that was in the pasture, and put them in the horse's water tank, and then pretend I didn't know how they got there.

I also always hid when I got hurt, because I thought I would get in trouble. I have no idea why. Good example - I didn't have those bead things on my bike spokes that made noise, so I came up with the brilliant idea that if I let my foot his the spokes while I was riding, it would make a fun noise. Obviously, that was a bad idea, and my foot went INTO the spokes, stopped the tire, and made me flip the bike straight over. It hurt SO BAD, but I didn't want to tell anyone because I thought I would get in trouble for being a damn idiot.

I'm honestly not sure how I survived childhood without bike helmets and additional safety equipment.

I use to catch tadpoles in a creek by my house! I'd put them in Mason jars and try to grow frogs. Idk what was wrong with me.

lmcooper86 · July 2014

Let's see...

I used to pretend that my bike was a horse. I would talk to it and all kinds of crap.

After bicycle safety day at school I started a bike safety club with the kids in my neighbourhood. We would police the other kids who weren't wearing helmets and using arm signals and we had a song.

My sister and cousins and I used to catch frogs at the cottage and build homes for them in sand buckets. We also thought that spraying them with water guns was helpful and keeping them wet, when in reality it was probably terrifying for them.

At 5 I asked my mom what a tampon was. Loudly, in a public women's washroom.

I had a trundle bed, but was still convinced that there would be someone under there waiting to grab me so I refused to walk by my bed in the dark; I would take a running jump onto the foot of my bed from the door.

My sister and I once tried to convince our cousins that we had been in England all year (we hadn't seen them at all) and talked with horrible accents for a whole day.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

When we lived in PA, we had a creek in our backyard and there were all sorts of creatures in there. My mom told me that there were muskrats in there and to stay away from them since they could bite me. From that point forward I was terrified of them.

One day my friend was over and she was in the creek and her scarf fell off into the creek and she started screaming and crying. I legit looked at her and screamed, A MUSKRAT TOOK IT and I ran away leaving her crying about her scarf floating down the river.

lennonkdc · July 2014

southernpeach89 said:

My sisters and I used to pretend we were Native Americans and my little sister would sit in the middle of our play room and sing her Tribal Chant and @LaPeanut1018 and I would stop whatever we were doing and run circles around her like we were possessed lol.

I ate an Ant once and thought it tasted like Caffeine?

I used to take a running start to jump onto my bed because I thought there were monsters under there and I was also convinced that the clown from IT lived in my closet.

My cousin worked in a video store back in the 80's, so she had a 3ft tall Pennywise the clown doll. My mom thought it was 'cute' and my cousin totally talked her into take it for my room, after making sure she and my older cousins watched the movie while babysitting me. My mom put the doll in the rocking chair next to my bed...I HATE clowns to this day...

Blue & White · July 2014

@GoldenPenguin I'm still bad at telling people I'm sick (I've gotten a LOT better) because I don't want to go to the doctor

tuarceatha · July 2014

I used to love the scenario that when a girl kissed a guy he fainted, overwhelmed by her beauty/his luck? Over and over my Barbies made my Kens faint.

Looking back at that, I think it was super dumb. I'd hate it if H fainted because of my kiss, even the really epic first one.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

lmcooper86 said:

Let's see...

I used to pretend that my bike was a horse. I would talk to it and all kinds of crap.

After bicycle safety day at school I started a bike safety club with the kids in my neighbourhood. We would police the other kids who weren't wearing helmets and using arm signals and we had a song.

My sister and cousins and I used to catch frogs at the cottage and build homes for them in sand buckets. We also thought that spraying them with water guns was helpful and keeping them wet, when in reality it was probably terrifying for them.

At 5 I asked my mom what a tampon was. Loudly, in a public women's washroom.

I had a trundle bed, but was still convinced that there would be someone under there waiting to grab me so I refused to walk by my bed in the dark; I would take a running jump onto the foot of my bed from the door.

My sister and I once tried to convince our cousins that we had been in England all year (we hadn't seen them at all) and talked with horrible accents for a whole day.

YUP! In my bed at home I had the top bunk, so I would hang my leg over the side when I got hot. But when we were visiting someone, or staying at camp, I wouldn't let my leg hang over the edge because I was afraide something could be under the bed.

My mom also collected dolls. They were EVERYWHERE. She had so many, that she even put them in our rooms, in display cases. . . I would turn off the light and close my eyes until I was in a bed a lot of the time. Dolls are fucking creepy in the dark. Why did she have to have CLOWN DOLLS?!?

[Deleted User] · July 2014

lennonkdc said:

southernpeach89 said:

My sisters and I used to pretend we were Native Americans and my little sister would sit in the middle of our play room and sing her Tribal Chant and @LaPeanut1018 and I would stop whatever we were doing and run circles around her like we were possessed lol.

I ate an Ant once and thought it tasted like Caffeine?

I used to take a running start to jump onto my bed because I thought there were monsters under there and I was also convinced that the clown from IT lived in my closet.

My cousin worked in a video store back in the 80's, so she had a 3ft tall Pennywise the clown doll. My mom thought it was 'cute' and my cousin totally talked her into take it for my room, after making sure she and my older cousins watched the movie while babysitting me. My mom put the doll in the rocking chair next to my bed...I HATE clowns to this day...

That's so awful! Those are the kind of things that scar children for life lol.

Peaseblossom55 · July 2014

@Blue I loved duck hunt too. I would try to shoot the dog who laughed when you missed....

loves2shop4shoes · July 2014

When the sun and the moon were in the sky at the same time (during the day), I'd get SUPER confused and say to my mom, "But mommy, it's not the moon's turn!"

I cried when Bambi's mother died. Every time.

I actually took a little longer to learn how to read than my parents thought. Before I REALLY knew how to read, I'd "read" to my parents by looking at the picture and making up a story.

I liked to collect bugs and would spend hours in my grandmother's back yard looking through the plants and dirt to find new kinds.

When I was really small, I followed my brother around EVERYWHERE and would sit outside the bathroom when he had to pee.

[Deleted User] · July 2014

loves2shop4shoes said:

When the sun and the moon were in the sky at the same time (during the day), I'd get SUPER confused and say to my mom, "But mommy, it's not the moon's turn!"

I cried when Bambi's mother died. Every time.

I actually took a little longer to learn how to read than my parents thought. Before I REALLY knew how to read, I'd "read" to my parents by looking at the picture and making up a story.

I liked to collect bugs and would spend hours in my grandmother's back yard looking through the plants and dirt to find new kinds.

When I was really small, I followed my brother around EVERYWHERE and would sit outside the bathroom when he had to pee.

These are seriously the cutest things I've ever heard!

When I was a kid...

Re: When I was a kid...

Choose Another Board

Search Boards