childhood memories

bambi · 26 Oct 2003, 17:49

DID YOU EVER...

Did you ever put your hands in the opposite sleeves of your sweater and pretend your arms were one?

Did you ever count your pocket change and say you had "six moneys"?

Did you ever play Hide and Seek and not come out of hiding until your sibling(s) started crying?

Did you ever use your finger as a gun, shoot your siblings 30 times, and they totally deny that they've been hit?

When playing group games, did you often argue over who would be "the leader" until someone in the group walked out?

Did you ever talk into an oscillating fan and pretend you were a robot?

Did you ever hang your coat on your head by the hood and pretend you were Darth Vader?

DUMB GAMES, WEIRD IMAGINATIONS

Did you ever think it was fun to slide down the carpeted stairs on your butt?

Did you ever pretend a large pretzel stick was a cigar?

Did you ever stop the games you played with your friends to explain what you planned to do next? "Let's pretend like I got magical powers? And say like I shot you, right? And you ran away and then I won?"

Did you ever play that department store game where "if you step on the black tiles, you die"?

MOM AND DAD

Did you ever ride your parents' leg when they walked?

What's the record for the most times you repeated a question to your mom or dad while they were busy talking to someone?

ANTICS AT SCHOOL

Did you ever lay your pencil off the side of your desk and catapult it off as far as it could go?

Did you ever take the remnants of your school lunch and mix them together in a bowl?

SIBLING RIVALRY

Did you ever snitch on your sibling(s) for snitching on you?

During an argument, did you cover ears and loudly ramble "lalalala" to avoid listening to what the other kid was saying?

Did you ever use your hand a shield on the side of your face so your sibling(s) wouldn't stare at you?

Did you ever copy everything your brother or sister said until they started to cry?

What's your record for the most consecutive "Are too! Are not!"'s in an argument?

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS

Ever notice that when some babies fall and hurt themselves, they look around before they start crying?

I think it's interesting how a child can be wailing loudly for a few minutes, and then in a split second, they stop crying and they're happy again. As if something magical happened.

Wild_Honey · 26 Oct 2003, 17:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by moshachic

DID YOU EVER...

Did you ever put your hands in the opposite sleeves of your sweater and pretend your arms were one?

Did you ever count your pocket change and say you had "six moneys"?

Did you ever talk into an oscillating fan and pretend you were a robot?

DUMB GAMES, WEIRD IMAGINATIONS

Did you ever think it was fun to slide down the carpeted stairs on your butt?

Did you ever stop the games you played with your friends to explain what you planned to do next? "Let's pretend like I got magical powers? And say like I shot you, right? And you ran away and then I won?"

MOM AND DAD

Did you ever ride your parents' leg when they walked?

What's the record for the most times you repeated a question to your mom or dad while they were busy talking to someone?

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS

Ever notice that when some babies fall and hurt themselves, they look around before they start crying?

I think it's interesting how a child can be wailing loudly for a few minutes, and then in a split second, they stop crying and they're happy again. As if something magical happened.

HOW TRUE!!!!!

Can remember this!!!

bambi · 26 Oct 2003, 18:01

i think i still do most of them *looks round nervously*

Wild_Honey · 26 Oct 2003, 18:03

Well, I think something definitely gets lost if you cannot stay a child at heart, so don't worry!

Do you like fluffy toys as well then?

bambi · 26 Oct 2003, 18:08

LOL!! YEA!!

Wild_Honey · 26 Oct 2003, 18:18

Hehee, me too!

AND they all have names!

Any more "childish" stuff?

bambi · 26 Oct 2003, 18:28

i shoot my m8 cazz with my invisable gun across the classroom!! n he dies which is V funny!!

Kitty Kat · 30 Oct 2003, 23:21

We were just discussing today at work - Mischief Night which falls on 4 November 2003. Does anyone else remember this as it seems to have died out. The only night in the year when it was OK to knock on doors and run away. To move all the garden gates in the street to the wrong houses.To drop bangers in someones pumpkin lantern. And the worst thing we did (which by todays standards is pretty tame) stuff newspapers into the bottom of the old cast iron drainpipes and then set light to it. It used to make a horrendous roaring noise and the residents came running out wondering what the hell was hapening. Oh happy days.

bambi · 30 Oct 2003, 23:23

yea i stilt do it!! love eggin houses the most lol soooooooo much fun!!

**The Flying Mouse** · 31 Oct 2003, 09:17

Sorry to be a spoil sport,but I find absoloutly nothing funny about kids covering someones house with various cake ingredients,or trying to blow each other up with fireworks

.
Around here,mischief night (a cute and cuddly expresion to legitamize bad behaviour) is the night before haloween.Walking to the shop this morning,I was treated to the sight of streets covered in flour and eggs.It's been raining,so the floor is very slippery.If I slipped and fell (which I nearly did more than once) I could have seriously injured my back.But hey,what's personal pain and a few weeks off work as long as these people have their fun

.
On the subject of fireworks,it seems to me that not enough people realise that the rocket was invented as a weapon of war.A firework is nothing more,nothing less than a bomb.A quantity of gunpowder stored in a convenient package with a fuse.Throw in a projectile and you have a grenade.Throwing them at people or firing them at buses is not harmless fun.It's bloody stupid and very dangerous

.
I really believe that they should be taken off sale to the general public and should be reserved only for sale to licenced profesionals.

Rant over.

bambi · 31 Oct 2003, 12:46

heat · 31 Oct 2003, 19:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by THE FLYING MOUSE

On the subject of fireworks,it seems to me that not enough people realise that the rocket was invented as a weapon of war.A firework is nothing more,nothing less than a bomb.A quantity of gunpowder stored in a convenient package with a fuse.Throw in a projectile and you have a grenade.Throwing them at people or firing them at buses is not harmless fun.It's bl**dy stupid and very dangerous

.
I really believe that they should be taken off sale to the general public and should be reserved only for sale to licenced profesionals.

Completely agree with you Mousie - Having a best friend who lost a finger due to some silly ~~~~~~~ putting a catherine wheel through his letterbox makes you realise just how dangerous these bombs are....

Kitty Kat · 31 Oct 2003, 19:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by THE FLYING MOUSE

Sorry to be a spoil sport,but I find absoloutly nothing funny about kids covering someones house with various cake ingredients,or trying to blow each other up with fireworks

.
Around here,mischief night (a cute and cuddly expresion to legitamize bad behaviour) is the night before haloween.Walking to the shop this morning,I was treated to the sight of streets covered in flour and eggs.It's been raining,so the floor is very slippery.If I slipped and fell (which I nearly did more than once) I could have seriously injured my back.But hey,what's personal pain and a few weeks off work as long as these people have their fun

.
On the subject of fireworks,it seems to me that not enough people realise that the rocket was invented as a weapon of war.A firework is nothing more,nothing less than a bomb.A quantity of gunpowder stored in a convenient package with a fuse.Throw in a projectile and you have a grenade.Throwing them at people or firing them at buses is not harmless fun.It's bl**dy stupid and very dangerous

.
I really believe that they should be taken off sale to the general public and should be reserved only for sale to licenced profesionals.

Rant over.

i agree with a lot of what you say. Our fun was mostly harmless but times have changed - in a lot of matters for the worse. We never threw fireworks at anyone or posted them through letterboxes. Mind you we were always on the look out for the local bobby who would have given you a clip round the earhole if he caught you doing anything wrong or dangerous.

Chris · 31 Oct 2003, 19:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by THE FLYING MOUSE

Sorry to be a spoil sport,but I find absoloutly nothing funny about kids covering someones house with various cake ingredients,

As one of the shopkeepers who will have to give up my own time at 5am tomorrow morning to clean egg etc off the front of my shop before i can open up, i heartily agree!!!

CarolM · 01 Nov 2003, 12:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris

Quote:

Originally Posted by THE FLYING MOUSE

Sorry to be a spoil sport,but I find absoloutly nothing funny about kids covering someones house with various cake ingredients,

As one of the shopkeepers who will have to give up my own time at 5am tomorrow morning to clean egg etc off the front of my shop before i can open up, i heartily agree!!!

Chris,and Mousie i couldnt agree more, well said ,it isnt funny,

and throwing fireworks well thats so dangerous its unbeleivable,

also its not fair to you Chris opening up ,and then having to clean their mess up .

oh well thats my rant over.

Louise · 06 Nov 2003, 14:47

well said, Mouse. Last year some kids threw a firework in the street which exploded about six feet away from myself and my son who I was pushing in the pram at the time. Fortunately, he was ok but I've got a perforated eardrum to show for it! Still, they had a good laugh so I suppose that's ok then

dottie · 06 Nov 2003, 15:54

Remember the Broken Biscuit Game, you step on a Broken/Cracked Pavement Slab and your Dead

we were lovely children then

I experienced the pleasure of having flour and eggs thrown at my house a couple of years ago, not funny!

But if accompanied by an adult, to oversee behaviour etc., then thats all right with me.

I make it a rule now, I do not answer the door if an adult is not in attendance, I turn off all lights downstairs, hallway, door , close curtains etc., and try to pretend I'm not in

I suppose it'll be Carol Singers next, there again same rules should apply.

Back on track - sorry

as above Game

CarylB · 06 Nov 2003, 17:53

Isn't it sad that something which was years ago pretty harmless has now escalated into vandalism? Local stores here were operating a ban on selling flour and eggs to chikdren and students this year, not thatbit was entirely successful. A friend of mine had her window broken on Halloween by a hail of eggs and flour and God knows what .. the work of a group of students .. while she was feeding her baby in the front room. And as Mouse says, streets that are too dangerous to walk on are not fun at all ..

I remember sparklers, roman candles and apple bobbing .. that was fun and enough :)

dottie · 06 Nov 2003, 20:37

Do you remember standing on a railway bridge, and holding your breath as the steam train passed underneath, very rare to do this now, but I wil hasten to add driving down A316 last night and saw the Orient Express in all its splendour, first time I've seen a steam train for a very long time

Chris · 06 Nov 2003, 21:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by dottie

Do you remember standing on a railway bridge, and holding your breath as the steam train passed underneath, very rare to do this now, but I wil hasten to add driving down A316 last night and saw the Orient Express in all its splendour, first time I've seen a steam train for a very long time

Sorry to rub it in dear but: Steam Trains were before my time i think!!!!

Anyone else used to play hide adn seek when you'd all invite the horrible kid that no-one liked, get them to hide and then all go for tea!!!!!!!!!

bambi · 06 Nov 2003, 21:13

awww thats crule

dottie · 06 Nov 2003, 22:22

[quote="Chris"]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dottie

Do you remember standing on a railway bridge, and holding your breath as the steam train passed underneath, very rare to do this now, but I wil hasten to add driving down A316 last night and saw the Orient Express in all its splendour, first time I've seen a steam train for a very long time

Sorry to rub it in dear but: Steam Trains were before my time i think!!!!

Well in that case Chris take a visit to the Pump and Steam Musuem at Brentford, there you can ride a minature steam train

CarylB · 06 Nov 2003, 23:09

Playing Pooh Sticks :) :) :)

shadow1000001 · 07 Nov 2003, 08:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by CarylB

Playing Pooh Sticks :) :) :)

Sorry Caryl but I have to ask, What the hell is Pooh Sticks

Maria

CarylB · 07 Nov 2003, 09:19

Omigod!! A deprived child!!

Did you never read Winnie the Pooh? It should be every child's birthright :) Pooh Sticks is where two or more of you lean over a low bridge which crosses a small river .. You each drop a stick into the water on the upstream side .. then run across to the other side of the bridge and wait to see whose stick comes through first :)

It's a nice gentle summery thing to do with a good friend, with the sun beating down on your back, and the butterflies flutterbying about, and the bees buzzing about in the flowers on the riverbank, and the little blue kingfishers darting about in the reeds as the river meanders gently along between its grassy banks ... It moves more slowly now because it has grown up since it started as a fast moving stream, all excited and rushing along wondering what's going to happen, and now moves slower because it knows where it's where it's going to and there's plenty of time .. And later you can walk home, dragging a stick behind you as the sun sets slowly over the edge of the 100 acre wood and the sandy floor of the forest getting between your toes, and wondering what's for tea.

26 Oct 2003, 17:49	#1
bambi Super Loafer Join Date: 04.07.2003 Location: if sum1 knows plz tell me!! Posts: 312	childhood memories DID YOU EVER... Did you ever put your hands in the opposite sleeves of your sweater and pretend your arms were one? Did you ever count your pocket change and say you had "six moneys"? Did you ever play Hide and Seek and not come out of hiding until your sibling(s) started crying? Did you ever use your finger as a gun, shoot your siblings 30 times, and they totally deny that they've been hit? When playing group games, did you often argue over who would be "the leader" until someone in the group walked out? Did you ever talk into an oscillating fan and pretend you were a robot? Did you ever hang your coat on your head by the hood and pretend you were Darth Vader? DUMB GAMES, WEIRD IMAGINATIONS Did you ever think it was fun to slide down the carpeted stairs on your butt? Did you ever pretend a large pretzel stick was a cigar? Did you ever stop the games you played with your friends to explain what you planned to do next? "Let's pretend like I got magical powers? And say like I shot you, right? And you ran away and then I won?" Did you ever play that department store game where "if you step on the black tiles, you die"? MOM AND DAD Did you ever ride your parents' leg when they walked? What's the record for the most times you repeated a question to your mom or dad while they were busy talking to someone? ANTICS AT SCHOOL Did you ever lay your pencil off the side of your desk and catapult it off as far as it could go? Did you ever take the remnants of your school lunch and mix them together in a bowl? SIBLING RIVALRY Did you ever snitch on your sibling(s) for snitching on you? During an argument, did you cover ears and loudly ramble "lalalala" to avoid listening to what the other kid was saying? Did you ever use your hand a shield on the side of your face so your sibling(s) wouldn't stare at you? Did you ever copy everything your brother or sister said until they started to cry? What's your record for the most consecutive "Are too! Are not!"'s in an argument? RANDOM OBSERVATIONS Ever notice that when some babies fall and hurt themselves, they look around before they start crying? I think it's interesting how a child can be wailing loudly for a few minutes, and then in a split second, they stop crying and they're happy again. As if something magical happened.

26 Oct 2003, 18:01	#3
bambi Super Loafer Join Date: 04.07.2003 Location: if sum1 knows plz tell me!! Posts: 312	i think i still do most of them looks round nervously

26 Oct 2003, 18:03	#4
Wild_Honey Super Loafer Join Date: 23.03.2003 Location: Windeck, Germany Posts: 606	Well, I think something definitely gets lost if you cannot stay a child at heart, so don't worry! Do you like fluffy toys as well then?

26 Oct 2003, 18:08	#5
bambi Super Loafer Join Date: 04.07.2003 Location: if sum1 knows plz tell me!! Posts: 312	LOL!! YEA!!

26 Oct 2003, 18:18	#6
Wild_Honey Super Loafer Join Date: 23.03.2003 Location: Windeck, Germany Posts: 606	Hehee, me too! AND they all have names! Any more "childish" stuff?

26 Oct 2003, 18:28	#7
bambi Super Loafer Join Date: 04.07.2003 Location: if sum1 knows plz tell me!! Posts: 312	i shoot my m8 cazz with my invisable gun across the classroom!! n he dies which is V funny!!

30 Oct 2003, 23:21	#8
Kitty Kat Senior Loafer Join Date: 03.09.2003 Location: West Yorkshire, UK Posts: 198	We were just discussing today at work - Mischief Night which falls on 4 November 2003. Does anyone else remember this as it seems to have died out. The only night in the year when it was OK to knock on doors and run away. To move all the garden gates in the street to the wrong houses.To drop bangers in someones pumpkin lantern. And the worst thing we did (which by todays standards is pretty tame) stuff newspapers into the bottom of the old cast iron drainpipes and then set light to it. It used to make a horrendous roaring noise and the residents came running out wondering what the hell was hapening. Oh happy days.

30 Oct 2003, 23:23	#9
bambi Super Loafer Join Date: 04.07.2003 Location: if sum1 knows plz tell me!! Posts: 312	yea i stilt do it!! love eggin houses the most lol soooooooo much fun!!

31 Oct 2003, 09:17	#10
The Flying Mouse Armed ba$tard and Jo's other half. Join Date: 06.08.2002 Location: In the middle of nowhere near the end of the line. Posts: 16,104	Sorry to be a spoil sport,but I find absoloutly nothing funny about kids covering someones house with various cake ingredients,or trying to blow each other up with fireworks . Around here,mischief night (a cute and cuddly expresion to legitamize bad behaviour) is the night before haloween.Walking to the shop this morning,I was treated to the sight of streets covered in flour and eggs.It's been raining,so the floor is very slippery.If I slipped and fell (which I nearly did more than once) I could have seriously injured my back.But hey,what's personal pain and a few weeks off work as long as these people have their fun . On the subject of fireworks,it seems to me that not enough people realise that the rocket was invented as a weapon of war.A firework is nothing more,nothing less than a bomb.A quantity of gunpowder stored in a convenient package with a fuse.Throw in a projectile and you have a grenade.Throwing them at people or firing them at buses is not harmless fun.It's bloody stupid and very dangerous . I really believe that they should be taken off sale to the general public and should be reserved only for sale to licenced profesionals. Rant over.

31 Oct 2003, 12:46	#11
bambi Super Loafer Join Date: 04.07.2003 Location: if sum1 knows plz tell me!! Posts: 312

06 Nov 2003, 14:47	#16
Louise Super Loafer Join Date: 23.04.2003 Location: East Yorkshire, UK Posts: 235	well said, Mouse. Last year some kids threw a firework in the street which exploded about six feet away from myself and my son who I was pushing in the pram at the time. Fortunately, he was ok but I've got a perforated eardrum to show for it! Still, they had a good laugh so I suppose that's ok then

06 Nov 2003, 15:54	#17
dottie queen post- whore extraordinaire Join Date: 29.01.2003 Location: Still Rockin' at "72" Posts: 13,181	Remember the Broken Biscuit Game, you step on a Broken/Cracked Pavement Slab and your Dead we were lovely children then I experienced the pleasure of having flour and eggs thrown at my house a couple of years ago, not funny! But if accompanied by an adult, to oversee behaviour etc., then thats all right with me. I make it a rule now, I do not answer the door if an adult is not in attendance, I turn off all lights downstairs, hallway, door , close curtains etc., and try to pretend I'm not in I suppose it'll be Carol Singers next, there again same rules should apply. Back on track - sorry as above Game

06 Nov 2003, 17:53	#18
CarylB Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.04.2003 Location: Sheffield UK Posts: 5,910	Isn't it sad that something which was years ago pretty harmless has now escalated into vandalism? Local stores here were operating a ban on selling flour and eggs to chikdren and students this year, not thatbit was entirely successful. A friend of mine had her window broken on Halloween by a hail of eggs and flour and God knows what .. the work of a group of students .. while she was feeding her baby in the front room. And as Mouse says, streets that are too dangerous to walk on are not fun at all .. I remember sparklers, roman candles and apple bobbing .. that was fun and enough :)

06 Nov 2003, 20:37	#19
dottie queen post- whore extraordinaire Join Date: 29.01.2003 Location: Still Rockin' at "72" Posts: 13,181	Do you remember standing on a railway bridge, and holding your breath as the steam train passed underneath, very rare to do this now, but I wil hasten to add driving down A316 last night and saw the Orient Express in all its splendour, first time I've seen a steam train for a very long time

06 Nov 2003, 21:13	#21
bambi Super Loafer Join Date: 04.07.2003 Location: if sum1 knows plz tell me!! Posts: 312	awww thats crule

06 Nov 2003, 23:09	#23
CarylB Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.04.2003 Location: Sheffield UK Posts: 5,910	Playing Pooh Sticks :) :) :)

07 Nov 2003, 09:19	#25
CarylB Mega Loafer Join Date: 16.04.2003 Location: Sheffield UK Posts: 5,910	Omigod!! A deprived child!! Did you never read Winnie the Pooh? It should be every child's birthright :) Pooh Sticks is where two or more of you lean over a low bridge which crosses a small river .. You each drop a stick into the water on the upstream side .. then run across to the other side of the bridge and wait to see whose stick comes through first :) It's a nice gentle summery thing to do with a good friend, with the sun beating down on your back, and the butterflies flutterbying about, and the bees buzzing about in the flowers on the riverbank, and the little blue kingfishers darting about in the reeds as the river meanders gently along between its grassy banks ... It moves more slowly now because it has grown up since it started as a fast moving stream, all excited and rushing along wondering what's going to happen, and now moves slower because it knows where it's where it's going to and there's plenty of time .. And later you can walk home, dragging a stick behind you as the sun sets slowly over the edge of the 100 acre wood and the sandy floor of the forest getting between your toes, and wondering what's for tea.