Random Childhood Memories — Page 2

#26

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:23pm

That has me laughing out loud, Rose!

I remember jumping on the beds in the guest room at my Grandparent's house. And they would always tell us not to. Finally they got so fed up that my Grandmother made up a story about a little girl named "Peggy" who was jumping on the bed and fell between the two beds in her room and got stuck and nobody found her all night and she died. My sister and I (we were about 4 and 6 at the time) were so terrified at the story we never jumped on the beds again.

I think my Grandmother had an extra cocktail that night...what a terrible thing to tell children! LOL!

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Updated On: 2/15/05 at 07:23 PM

#27

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:24pm

cough cough cough cough

You made me laugh so hard I broke into a coughing fit, Addy!

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#28

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:25pm

This thread is quite entertaining.

Ghost rider - We lived on top of a hill and used to push our bicycles down the hill to see which one would stay up the longest without a rider.

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#29

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:25pm

LOL...I apparently have some very random childhood memories!

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#30

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:26pm

addy we may have been seperated at birth! My nana told me the same story about "Peggy"!! Scary huh?

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#31

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:26pm

OMG - that is REALLY creepy... Do you think the story was TRUE?!

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#32

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:27pm

Okay, you want random? I remember sitting with a friend of mine and naming her twin brothers "spoon" and "pirate" because those words rhymed with their names. :)

#33

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:28pm

This thread has given me a wonderful case of the giggles!

Actually - I'm laughing out LOUD. Good thing I'm the only one in the office, also...

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#34

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:29pm

Glad I could make you laugh, Addy! I can only imagine what my neighbors thought of our antics...

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#35

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:32pm

Beav,

Your birthday was on Saturday! (same as Abe Lincoln's!)

Why so mum about it?

Manny Happy Returns, Beaverhausen!

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#36

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:32pm

Beav, death at bedtime was a pretty common theme during childhood, I think. I remember hating the prayer about "If I should die before I wake..." And lullabies were a tad violent as well "when the bough breaks the cradle will fall"...

No wonder I was afraid of the dark.

(Hence, the many jars of fireflies I used to like to keep in my room!)

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#37

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:32pm

When I first moved to the States I lived on a street where all the "backyards" were basically a connected strip of grass. Since the street was also a cul de sac, my friends and I could run around in everyone's yards without stepping off the grass. Anyway, early on there was one neighbor who was all territorial about her grass. She yelled at us once for running in her thirty feet of yard, and we got so scared we didn't dare run around for about a week after that.

#38

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:32pm

Gosh addy, I don't know, but still kinda a creepy. Maybe it is just a grandamother story, to keep the younings' in line?

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#39

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:34pm

speaking of running on grass... I loved running through the sprinklers that my grandparent's had in their lawn. That was the best...

And blowing big bubbles with the bubble wand.

(mom - I think it's too creepy that they both used the name Peggy!)

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#40

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:35pm

Addy, I have to be careful the next time I go to Ford's Theatre in DC because it will remind me of your play.

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#41

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:35pm

When I was 4, I went to opening day of the 1964 New York World's Fair. I got to be one of the first 100 or so kids to ride on "It's A Small World" (it opened at the fair a few months before the one at Disneyland), and I got to meet WALT DISNEY HIMSELF!

Top that, folks!

#42

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:36pm

LOL, Dottie. I don't know WHY we thought that was a good topic for a summer play! And I'm not even sure we knew anything about it... I think it was probably because we found a cool top hat in the attic, so the costume dictated the production!

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#43

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:36pm

Jon, that is seriously cool.

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#44

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:38pm

Jon, what a great memory.

Addy, stop that now!!! I'm trying to eat my dinner. Could you imagine if you made it a musical?

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#45

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:39pm

Oh, we DID! All of our shows were musicals!

(Sondheim had nothin' on us!! LOL)

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#46

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:40pm

I remember catching eight fish - without bait. I was three years old and on my first trip to Hawaii. Actually, it was my first trip anywhere. There was an older boy - he was probably all of eight - a few feet away. He was very diligent about putting bait on his hook. He didn't catch one fish. I probably thought that the bait was 'icky', so no bait for my hook.

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#47

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:42pm

I liked to chase tadpoles in the brook in front of my cousin's house. I wasn't very good at it, and usually ruined whatever dress I was wearing when I slipped off a rock and landed in the mucky water...

I loved tadpoles and frogs and salamanders and creatures of that sort.

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#48

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:43pm

Addy, I'm afraid to ask, but I just have to...who did you play?

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Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

#49

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:43pm

Jon that is so cool! But Small World is sorta like a Post Tramatic Stess thing with me. While riding it broke down. Boats stopped, only emergancy lihgt on and those D**N dolls kept on singing! It took me decades to forget it in Japanese

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"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

Updated On: 2/15/05 at 07:43 PM

#50

re: Random Childhood Memories

Posted: 2/15/05 at 7:45pm

Aw, you wore dresses, Addy? I was an aspiring tomboy and refused to wear dresses to anything but piano recitals for years.