I Was An Odd Child

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

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?

ritasNo1Fan · ‎03-12-2010

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....

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

@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*

YorkieonmyPillow · ‎01-13-2013

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....

Imadickens · ‎06-15-2016

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.!

Never underestimate the power of kindness.

Trinity11 · ‎11-16-2014

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

cherry · ‎03-09-2010

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

Pqfan · ‎03-09-2010

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!

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

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.

Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

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.......