I Was An Odd Child - Page 3

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:
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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@YorkieonmyPillow

Perfectly normal kid behavior

Think of all the kids that shove things up their noses or swallow coins. Kids do that kind of thing.

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@cherry wrote:
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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@cherry

You nailed it, Cherry

And welcome back!

YorkieonmyPillow · ‎01-13-2013

We used to have seances....we even had them at school, in the school library! (shameless)

I recall one particular seance where we came out of the library, breathlessly announcing that a ceramic bust was "crying."

Of course, it was only some sort of clear glue running down from its eye...........LOLOL

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

My brother and I thought that grandma lived right over the hill behind our house.She actually lived about 10 miles away. One day we were mad at our Mom so we filled our canteens with water and started out to go to grandmas house. We were about 5 & 7. We walked and walked, were terribly lost first in the woods then eventually in traffic and finally, by a total miracle just before dark, we recognized we actually were in grandmas neighborhood. we started to run and finally got to her house. Of course by then every cop in 5 communities was looking for us. Grand ma called my mother right away but grandpa did punish us for running away. We got to stay at Grandma's that night. One of my earliest memories.

YorkieonmyPillow · ‎01-13-2013

@Noel7 wrote:
@YorkieonmyPillow wrote:
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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@YorkieonmyPillow

Perfectly normal kid behavior

Think of all the kids that shove things up their noses or swallow coins. Kids do that kind of thing.

I shoved a raisin up my nose one time in grade school, thus earning me the nickname "raisin."

My daughter, for some reason, used to chew the upholstery on our car doors..........guess it's genetic..........

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

Very sad memory brought to the forefront while reading some posts. Our family lost a beautiful little girl who pushed a button up her nose and died from the infection. Too hazy now to remember anything more than the loss.

Time does that.....

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

YorkieonmyPillow · ‎01-13-2013

@jlkz wrote:
Very sad memory brought to the forefront while reading some posts. Our family lost a beautiful little girl who pushed a button up her nose and died from the infection. Too hazy now to remember anything more than the loss.

Time does that.....

My daughter shoved something up her nose one time & I had to take her to the doctor; he removed it with an alligator clamp.

I think it was a piece of cellophane.

dex · ‎03-09-2010

We were in daycare that didn't really watch us well.My brother and I would go to a busy service station and bother the people at work.One guy used to spray us with a hose and we would laugh and call him mr crazy crazy man..in reality he was probably worried for our safety and thought he could scare us off but we thought it was a game and loved it.

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

I was 6 when I learned how to make mud pies with dirt and water at my friends house.

Mamaw and Papaw had rich, dark dirt in their flower beds, which I decided would make great chocolate pancakes. So while playing outside with older cousin and younger brother, I decide to show them what I learned at my friends house. I had an old pot with a hole in it and a broken spoon, so I dug up some dirt, and then needed water. I got stopped trying to sneak a glass of water out of the house. Papaw caught cousin trying to turn on the spigot to the water hose. The only other place to get water was to climb the fence to the watering hole for uncles horses, but cousin and I had been spanked for climbing the fence before, so that didn't seem like a good idea.

Little brother is running around us in training pants and decides he needs to pee. Lightbulb moment for me; I now have liquid for my pancakes! So he pees in my pot, and I spoon my pancakes onto the unused section of the front sidewalk, just minutes before the adults come out on the front porch to see what we're doing.

I'm beaming over my sidewalk creation. Cousin is all sheepish, so aunt immediately asks him what he's done. Papaw wants to know where we got water from, figuring we climbed the fence again. Little brother grabbed himself about that time, so Mom is on her way over to help him get his training pants down so he can pee. But before she gets off the porch and down the sidewalk, brother is peeing all over my chocolate pancakes! Lightbulb moment for all the adults as they immediately realize the secret ingredient to my sidewalk creation.

Needless to say, we were in trouble, and were sent in the house to wash our hands and sit on the couch. That was the end of my mud pies/chocolate pancake creations, as my pot and spoon disappeared by the time we went back to Mamaws and Papaws the next weekend.

This story was told many times after we were teenagers, and Mamaw nor Papaw still could not tell it with a straight face. Papaw had left the dirt on the sidewalk for days because he found it all so funny, and confessed he was laughing so hard tears ran down his face the whole time he hosed the mess off the walk.