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I Was An Odd Child

Plaid Pants2 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:00:50 GMT

I was reminiscing a bit today, and I remembered one time when I was about four or five years old, going into the garage and getting into the dog kibble, and eating a few pieces! I remember it tasting dry and of corn. I think that I was curious as to what it tasted like. I remember only doing it just that one time.

I don't remember this next story, but I can see myself having done this.

One day my mom decided to try and make home-made beer.

I don't know what went through my child mind, but I decided to help out.

Maybe I thought she was playing pretend, so I was going to play pretend with her.

Who knows?

Anyway, I decided to add my own "special ingredient" to the mix.

I poured in cat litter in to the brew.

Used cat litter!

Needless to say, my mom was none too happy with me!

Years later when she told me this story, I busted out laughing. She said, "It wasn't funny!".

I said, "But it is now!", and she agreed that it was.

As I said, I was a strange child. *lol*

What odd/quirky/funny things did you do as a child, or, that your kids/grandkids do?

Re: I Was An Odd Child

ritasNo1Fan — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:06:50 GMT

Eeeeoooo....,you were a little different. I was very awkward around 12ish to 18ish. I could have used a personal guardian or big brother during those years. Oh well....

Re: I Was An Odd Child

Plaid Pants2 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:11:50 GMT

@ritasNo1Fan wrote:
Eeeeoooo....,you were a little different. I was very awkward around 12ish to 18ish. I could have used a personal guardian or big brother during those years. Oh well....

No argument here! :-)

I still maintain that the reason that my parents only had one kid, was because I was all that they could handle! *lol*

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YorkieonmyPillow — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:13:07 GMT

Anything I saw in a movie or show, I tried to do it....I watched a movie about an invisible man, so I tried to make a concoction that would render me invisible. It contained toothpaste......

Another time, I sort of wanted to know what an ant tasted like, so I put an ant into my bubble gum I was already chewing....

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Imadickens — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:16:58 GMT

Well, there were a lot of dumb things of which I am ashamed and deeply regret, and many others that I remember, were even dangerous! But, my mother always said the same thing over and over about me! If there were not enough of something to go around I was always the kid who was left out, forgotten, missed, skipped, you name it! It never went away, either! At a Junior League dinner meeting everyone was served dinner but me! The waitress forgot to put my order in! They apologized but it was awkward trying to eat my main course while everyone else had finished desert! Of course I was a young woman then and didn't say anything, but now, I would quietly ask for my money back instead of eating my entree at 10:00 p.m.!

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Trinity11 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:14:42 GMT

When I was a little girl I was left home alone a lot after school when my mom was still out shopping. It gave me the chance to feed my pup. He absolutely loved dog biscuits and I would eat one right along with him. I used to dip them in Bosco. His were plain because I knew at a very young age that chocolate is bad for dogs. I read voraciously anything I could about dogs the minute I could read at 6.

How's that for weird? LOL

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cherry — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:17:21 GMT

I don't think that's odd. Kids experiment with food all the time ,and will put anything in their mouths, hence the locking caps on med bottles

I can't think of anything I did that was weird. I did sing my sistes,r who werer twins, and 5 years older than me, to sleep at night. They asked me to do it, so dummy me ,I did. I can rememberi sniffing a glow in the dark picture of Pluto, that hung over my crib. I don't know why, but I liked the smell

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Pqfan — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:16:21 GMT

I did all kinds of stuff when I was a kid. I tried these. My friends were feeding their dog and we were curious. It wasn't our fault the commercial kept telling us they taste like hamburgers! No they didn't!

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deepwaterdotter — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:25:58 GMT

I would ride my bike 4 miles to the library in the morning, check out the maximum allowable number of books, ride home, and read all the books. In the afternoon, I would ride back to the library to return those books, check out more books, and return home to read them. You could say I was a voracious reader and an avid cyclist.

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Annabellethecat66 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:26:08 GMT

The OP's story reminded me of something that happened when my daughter started crawling.

I had a cat named Tabetha. She was the love of my life, 7 years before I had my first child. She wasn't used to children and was constantly on the run and became a picky eater. Thus I had to put her food where SHE could get to it.

One day I came into the kitchen in time to see my daughter raise her hand to her mouth, chomping down eating Tender Vittles Cat Food. I don't know if you remember it, but you had to be sure to keep water nearby, I guess so the cats could wah it down.

Well, since she was my first born I had the Pediatrician's phone number keyed into my phone (quick dial).

I quickly ran over, picked up my daughter and tried to fish it out of her mouth. She chomped down (4 teeth in the front) and I felt terrible pain. I said, "I need to talk to Dr Quack immediately". The nurse said, "What's the problem"? I said, "My daughter just ate Tender vittles cat food".

The nurse says, "The Dr said to give her some water and look at it this way, 'at least you won't have to feed her dinner'....then she said, "Wait a minute...the Dr has some further instructions". She comes back on and says,

"Dr. Quack said you don't need to call back unless she starts to meeow" (she was laughing so hard she could hardly speak.

Then she told me there was nothing in it that could hurt her and that the Tender vittles will fill up my daughter so she won't be hungry!

That was one of the many times I called him. Once we took my middle daughter to Children's Hospital because her feet stunk so bad...no matter what we did!

I won't go into all of the other times.......

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Desertdi — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:26:57 GMT

When I was born, my dad worked nights. I also worked nights (graveyard) for about 20 years. I'm retired, but still on the "night shift"..............sleep from about 4-ish in the afternoon til maybe 10 or 11.................

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CatsyCline — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:27:57 GMT

i dressed up in a long skirt and big hat and climbed up on the garage roof with an umbrella. i intended to jump off the roof holding the umbrella open like Mary Poppins. my mother caught me before i jumped. i did not come down willingly. we went around around about it becuase i was convinced it would work just like in the movie

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Mz iMac — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:28:33 GMT

My daughter would ask the oddest questions.

Sometime between the 1st & 3rd grades, she was learning about presidents. When she became aware that "grandpop" had another name - George, she asked him if he was related to George Washington.

Around that same time, she already knew the proper names for sexual parts. She came home from school one day & asked her father how come President Nixon wasn't called Tricky P___s instead of Tricky ******. All the while pointing to her father's crotch. My husband was mortified!

My youngest brother around age 5 & my GS around age 3 ate ants. To this day, my daugher & SIL suspect my baby brother put his nephew up to it. Needless to say, they live 1000 miles from each other & the fact he never saw his nephew around that age.

I ~~was~~ am a tomboy but not odd.

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silentgirl — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:28:36 GMT

My siblings and I did a lot of weird quirky things....still do...

But the weirdest thing I used to do was eat Jubilee furniture wax---

It was a wax used for everything; thick, white pasty stuff....it had this smell to it...I just couldn't resist! My mom was horrified when I confessed recently.

My little brother and I used to take a needle and thread and sew our skin like we had sutures...not deep, just in the loose skin on our fingers......

Do I win anything ?!!!!!!

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Glittergal — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:32:56 GMT

I stole a beer. When I was about 7 or 8 my dad was outside one summer building a deck. He sat a cold beer on the fence. I remember how enticing it looked in the sun--just like apple juice. So I swiped it and ran behind the shed. I started guzzling. I spit it out and was so upset--I thought it had gone bad because it tasted nothing like apple juice. I was convinced that I was gonna die, so I confessed to my mother.

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ritasNo1Fan — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:34:24 GMT

@deepwaterdotter wrote:
I would ride my bike 4 miles to the library in the morning, check out the maximum allowable number of books, ride home, and read all the books. In the afternoon, I would ride back to the library to return those books, check out more books, and return home to read them. You could say I was a voracious reader and an avid cyclist.

Me too! I read "mature" type stuff. Harold Robbins, Jacqueline Susanne, Peyton Place...wowee....no one seemed to care what I found in the library.

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SeaMaiden — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:35:21 GMT

My best friend and I at about age 8 or 9 would spend hours playing in some woods behind our homes. Our fascination was to make homes for fairies in whatever we could use....old tree trunks etc. using moss, and sticks and such we even made furniture and the like. We also would leave crackers and any food that would fit in the homes to feed them.We really believed that the fairies would move in when we left. We has a lot of fun.

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Irshgrl31201 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:36:57 GMT

I used to like to eat mud when I was really little. I can remember thinking it looked so good like chocolate ice cream when it melted.

I just read an article a couple of years ago that said eating dirt is actually good for you. It said many studies exist that show that soil based bacteria/organisms are good for many health related diseases.

I guess at 3 and 4 I was ahead of my time.

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Spurt — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:47:59 GMT

The only odd thing I remember doing as a child was when I was involved in a divious plot with my sister and brother and 2 cousins that lived across the street......the plan was that we were all going to drink vinegar to make ourselves sick.......after all the other kids were at school, we planned to take Pepto Bismal for a cure....and then all get together to play Monopoly all day long!---What fun!!!......Well the plan didn't work....we had to take the Pepto Bismal alright but we went straight to school.......

Re: I Was An Odd Child

Noel7 — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:51:57 GMT

@Plaid Pants2

I don't think that makes you "odd."

A lot of kids do things like that, it's play cooking.