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[Desertdi]

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.................

[CatsyCline]

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

[Mz iMac]

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.

[silentgirl]

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 ?!!!!!!

[Glittergal]

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.

[ritasNo1Fan]

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@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.

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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.

[SeaMaiden]

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.

[Irshgrl31201]

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.

[Spurt]

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.......

[Noel7]

@Plaid Pants2

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

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