Silly things you did as a kid -

[sparklemilhouse]

Bouncing off the "silly things you believed as a kid" thread.

When I was fourteen, my mom and I were staying at a Hampton Inn because there was a bad nor'easter, and our neighborhood was flooding. One day during breakfast, I totally wasn't thinking and when i saw that my bagel was stuck in the toaster, I grabbed the first thing I saw, these METAL tongs to get the bagel out. Thank god an attendant stopped me.

I've mentioned this before here, but in 7th grade I had a HUGE crush on my social studies teacher. I was always wanting attention for it. One day, right when we came back from Christmas break, I told everybody that I had a dream that he threw me on his desk and began to kiss me. I was making shit up. Everybody said they were going to tell my teacher about it, so I freaked.

That same day we were having some sort of notebook check, where our teacher would make sure our notebooks were in tip top shape. I decided that I had to create a diversion, and also I was just embarrassed as hell that I told so many people about the fake dream I had. So I wrote a suicide note, and stuck it in my social studies notes. Yeah he found it, and ripped it out of my notebook, he said something hateful, I forgot what though. Next thing I knew I was sitting at ye olde guidance counselors office.

I have tons more, but I'll stop for now.

 

[Something Vague]

I kept a potato as a pet.

I'll think of other ones eventually too.

 

[pickleniggo]

When I was really little, my family and I were at a weird pancake house in PA or something. It was the kind of place that is really generous with their portions and I got pancakes. When the plate came out I saw a scoop of what I thought was vanilla ice cream on my pancakes and I got really excited and stuck a spoon into it. I was about to eat it when my mother was like "THAT'S BUTTER WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
That's like one if my earliest memories: being disappointed by giant scoops of butter, which I don't like on my pancakes to begin with.

 

[cypocraphy]

In 1st grade I drew this in pencil on my desk:

 

[The Hunter]

When I was 5 years old, I used to get the seeds out of my apples and plant them in the backyard in hopes that we'd have an apple tree for delicious apples all the time. Sadly, I'd water the same general area every day as well. Took a while for my dad to convince me to cut it out because of the whole water conservation thing in town.

 

[Stratochu]

I always wanted to sprout and plant avocado seeds so I could have an avocado tree as a kid, never mind that between Nebraska, Colorado, a fucked-up part of Central California, and Oregon, where I've lived, avocado trees cannot survive.

I was obsessive about spinning as a kid (in office chairs)

I was never into McDonald's except when they had Hot Wheels or G.I. Joes, and I preferred nuggets over the gross hamburgers.

I was crazy obsessed with Volkswagen-based kit cars as a kid and teenager to the point that I wanted a fiberglass 1950s Porsche roadster replica like the black one from "Top Gun" and I even bought a junker dune buggy in hopes that I could put it back on street wheels and make a Porsche replica out of it. I settled for a beat-up white Chevy van that the local Pepsi distributor was selling.

 

[Bugaboo]

Once when I was little I ate fish food.
Oh wait no, I did that 2 years ago.

(It ain't too bad, it's just really bland and it coats your mouth)

 

[KatsuKitty]

I have about three tapes of me as a kid doing "radio shows" on the "Koopa Troopa Channel". One favorite of mine to do was a retarded show featuring the Pleasant family from The Sims. They're all complete with commercials advertising Britney Spears, Ninendo 64 games, and free songs on Napster.

 

[Bugaboo]

I have about three tapes of me as a kid doing "radio shows" on the "Koopa Troopa Channel". One favorite of mine to do was a retarded show featuring the Pleasant family from The Sims. They're all complete with commercials advertising Britney Spears, Ninendo 64 games, and free songs on Napster.

I have a tape of 5 year old me singing the Pokemon theme song.
I should burn it one of these days

 

[Something Vague]

I used to pretend my beanie babies (which I had a HUGE collection of) were pokemon since I didn't have the plushies of all of them at the time (it was really hard to find beanie babies for the plant-based pokemon, all I had was a jack-o-lantern one with vine arms and legs to represent everything from vileplume to tangela)

Also, in first grade I watched Cartoon All-Stars and then at recess that day some friends and I played "Cartoon Allstars" and we used our own characters like Pokemon, Power Rangers, Sailor Moon, and all of our other favorite shows that we liked and yeah we pretended to destroy all the drugs in the world... I think some of the teachers watching us play did not realize we would take the cartoon so serious and it was quite hilarious in hindsight.

 

[Niachu]

Also, in first grade I watched Cartoon All-Stars and then at recess that day some friends and I played "Cartoon Allstars" and we used our own characters like Pokemon, Power Rangers, Sailor Moon, and all of our other favorite shows that we liked and yeah we pretended to destroy all the drugs in the world... I think some of the teachers watching us play did not realize we would take the cartoon so serious and it was quite hilarious in hindsight.

That's adorable.

 

[Male]

!)Get a cereal box
2)Put my left arm in it
3)Pretend my arm is a Megabuster

 

[The Joker]

I would dress my cats up and play "Little house in the Big Woods" with them.

 

[c-no]

When I was in kindergarten, I owned a psone with some games. I scratched the back of said games. I then began to regret that decisions many years later. When I was almost 13, I made my first internet post on Newgrounds in the political forum regarding the Iraq war, complete with horrid grammar and spelling. I regret that as well, being oh so new to what really the internet that was without a the kid-friendly things like Neo-Pets.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

I have an entire binder of things I printed out from my first few months on the Internet back in 2000. I was such a little girl back then.

I used to send dumb emails to Vance DeGeneres (Ellen's brother) all the time in my late teens. Ed Helms when I was in my early 20s, and _right_ before he got super famous.

 

[Something Vague]

I would run into TVs, paintings, you name it, shouting "Blue Skadoo we can too!" because if Steve could do it, so can I and if I didn't do it, I wasn't trying hard enough. Instead I just crashed into walls and TVs.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Speaking of Blues Clues, a silly thing I did as a kid was ... I was totally into Blues Clues even as a 15 year old because I thought Steve was hot.

 

[Something Vague]

Speaking of Blues Clues, a silly thing I did as a kid was ... I was totally into Blues Clues even as a 15 year old because I thought Steve was hot.

I stopped watcing Blue's Clue's when Steve left the show.

 

[sparklemilhouse]

I used to have figure skating competitions for my Barbies every weekend when I was 8-10 years old. I'd have them "skate" to whatever was on the radio.

 

[Stuff and Things]

When i was like 6 or 7 years old, i was in this school trip, we took a break on a McDonalds and i remember how all the kids were all exited with these g.i. joe toys that they got on their happy meals... me? i chose a happy meal with a girls toy, it was a bunny plush with a carrot plush... i still have those things...