Random Childhood Memories- Page 4

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:12pm

Thanks, M-E for starting this. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

I can't get the visual for "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" out of my head.

Updated On: 2/15/05 at 08:12 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:13pm

Plum, even if there were computer games I have always been an absolute idiot when it comes to computers...so I wouldn't have known how to play them! Sad to say... I am very technology challenged! (which is ironic, given the field I work in...)

I remember PacMan... but I wasn't a kid when it arrived on the scene.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:15pm

gotta run, gang!

Great memories and laughs! Thanks to all...

I'm going to go home and see if I can find the pictures from our childhood summer shows... this should be fun!

[Princeton78]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:15pm

PAC-MAN?
I LOVED Pac-man!
I had a Pac-Man backpack.
(But I really wanted a Mrs. Pac-Man backpack)

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:18pm

I still enjoy it when I stumble upon an old PacMan game in a bar. There are a few places in the city that still have it, and it's fun... I am still really bad at it!

[Plum]

Posted: 2/15/05 at 8:25pm

Oh, I'm awful at video games. I liked the Sim games because they weren't about reflexes.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 1:45am

My cousin falling off a bench at camp, cracking his head open and being given a popsicle so that he'd stop crying.

Being forced to sit under a payphone until I stopped sassing my camp counselor.

My brother using his fingers to keep my eyes open and his legs to keep me pinned to the chair while we watched the first Nightmare on Elm Street.

Being pissed off at my father because he wouldn't stop watching sports long enough to let me watch The Facts of Life.

Reeboks and tennis shoes with acrylic paint designs.

[cali2colo7]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 2:14am

"are you afraid of the dark" "pete and pete" "hey dude" and "salute your shorts" on Nick

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 11:04am

Dottie - if you read this - I found pictures!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 11:49am

Thanks, Addy. Just wanted to let you know that as I was walking home from work last night I couldn't stop laughing. All the people who passed me must of thought I was a kook.

Can't wait to see those pictures. I'm seriously thinking of coming to NYC for Andrea McArdle's act (if there are still tickets). Maybe you could bring them then!!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 11:53am

LOL... I got on the bus and had a stupid grin on my face. People must have thought I was deranged...

10-year old Addy as Abe's singing Doctor... you got it!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 1:05pm

Addy, I thought of you again. Every Christmas Eve the entire clan would gather at my grandparents house (on Cross Ridge). My cousins and I would run to the basement and play "Frankenstein". (I have no idea why) I used to push my cousin around on a chair with casters (he was the doctor and I was his nurse). Ironically, he's a doctor today. The things this thread made me think of.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 1:09pm

"I remember having a version of Reader Rabbit so ancient..."

Plum, come here.




Closer.



A little closer.



*S L A P!!!!*

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 1:10pm

I was wondering when you were finally going to post in this thread, Rath!!

[Plum]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 1:17pm

Ancient by computer game standards, Rath. Geez. I'm sure one day my kids will laugh when I tell them I remember the days of 7-digit phone numbers. If we even use phones then.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:29pm

Dottie, when we would gather at my Grandparent's over Christmas (and other holidays) the 'kids' would always disappear into the finished basement. I would always play bartender. Grandpa had a cool basement bar, and I liked pouring "drinks" for my sister and cousins. I could make ginger ale seem very sophisticated!

I hadn't thought about that until just now.

I think it explains quite a bit!

[Jacques_Clouseau]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:32pm

Gingerale in champagne glasses?
I was often found attached to the bar in our hot tub room.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:33pm

Ooh, memories! We would always go to the basement during holidays at the house of one of my friends. Anyway, one time during Chanukah I asked her why she was playing her music so softly. She said, "Oh, it's Coolio. If I turn it up loud like this-

MOTHER******* B****!

*she turns it down again*

"One of the little kids might hear."

Cue one of the little kids, coming in with her mother. Talk about your awkward moments. :)

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:37pm

Addy, my grandfather had a bar in the basement as well, and a wine cellar (he made his own wine being from Italy).

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:40pm

Jacques, that's it exactly. Ginger ale in champagne glasses!

(you had a hot tub?!)

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:41pm

Dottie - weren't grandparent's basements just the most fun?!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:42pm

Yes, but I would never go down there by myself!!! I was always too afraid.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:43pm

My grandparents' basement was where my grandmother went to smoke - thinking none of us knew she was a smoker. But really - how much laundry did she think we'd believe she'd have to do in one day?

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:44pm

haha, My first day of school, when I got on the bus. I sat by this girl and asked her if she would be my friend. ((What can I say, I was outgoing kid.)) And she said no... and that she already had friends...

No wonder I'm messed up. Damn childhood drama.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:44pm

I was afraid of OUR basement, but not the one at my Grandparent's house. Theirs was finished and fun.

So was their attic. It was the kind that had a door in the ceiling you had to pull down. I loved going up to explore. Our attic was more of a crawl space (in the house my parents lived in first). It was very frightening.