Facts about your childhood!

[ixfd64]

Are there any unique, weird or downright crazy facts (or stories) about your childhood? Post them here!

Anyways, here are mine:

1. A long time ago, my mother once turned off the TV after she got mad at me for doing something bad. I don't remember what I did, but it seriously pissed her off. I then followed the wires and looked into the electrical outlet, thinking it was where the television images came from.

2. I used to think the darkness of night was caused by clouds!

3. In my early elementary school years, my teachers joked about having special powers, specifically telekinesis and the ability to teleport things. I actually believed them!

4. I went on my first "hunger strike" when I was a month old. Our family doctor had recommended that I be fed from a bottle, but I would only drink my mother's milk. I did not want that stupid infant formula! The doctor suggested that I be starved until I accepted the infant formula, but I still did not relent. After four days, my mother finally gave in! I would probably have died had I gone on any longer!

5. I took on the role of Robin Hood during Easter egg hunts. I used to steal eggs from other people and give them to the children who arrived too late! Of course, that made quite a few people mad!

6. I used to live in Sunnyvale, California, many years ago. I once did something bad and my mother told me to walk home from the nearby Ponderosa Park by myself. Having been to Ponderosa Park many times, I was overconfident and ended up getting lost! Fortunately, I finally found my way home just a few minutes before my parents were going to call the police. This incident scared my parents so much that they promised never to do it again! Remember that this was way before cell phones and GPS devices!

[Phait]

I was born, discarded by my half-Eskimo mother for being too pale, promptly sold to a family of blind Polish immigrants and mistaken for a small ham.

[Dave-ros]

I was born
Liez!!! :tinyted:

I was told a few years ago that under the carpet of the lounge in the house where my coherent memories begin, on the floorboards directly beneath the spot where I used to sit watching TV, there was a pentagram. No wonder I used to have so many nightmares as a child! :eek:

[hightreason]

Facts about my childhood...
...It sucked!

In more detail:

> My mother was a Punk
> I had a SNES, and me and my friends used to laugh at the kid accross the street who had a SEGA Mega Drive
> I got bullied at school
> We left my dad, when i was 9
> I beat up all the school bullies and got booted out of school
> I used to enjoy setting fire to stuff
> I was put into the care of social services

Need i say more?

[TerminX]

I think I was 10 the first time I got arrested and held in custody overnight. :o

[Sang]

Wtf, a 10-year-old in the slammer? How did you achieve that :D

Anyway there's no real judgement I can bring out about my childhood seeing how I'm still in it! :mad: :D

[Dave-ros]

So am I, despite the notable handicap of being 31 :o

[Timiditas]

As a child, I had one and the same nightmare every night. They lasted from when my memories begin until nearly exactly when we moved out of the house where I was risen.
Much later on I was told that the first husband of my mother has killed himself, strung himself up in the attic.
Now that information scared me 'till today. :dopefish:

[TerminX]

Funny you mention something like that... as a kid, I had a recurring nightmare where I was on a giant 50 ft high swingset and eventually I would fall free and splat on the pavement. Come to find out years and years later that when I was an infant, my mom and sister had this baby swing they would put me in that I hated. I guess I would turn all red and scrunch down in the seat as much as I could and they thought it was funny as hell. :o Scarred for (part of) life!

[FrenzalBop]

Once me and my brother dragged all the mattresses off the beds and took them outside and placed them in a huge pile we then climbed onto the roof and jumped off onto the mattress.

my parents used to take us to church because they thought it would be good for us though once me and some friends jammed a tennis ball into our sunday school teachers car's exaust pipe and cover it with duct tape.

once my dad payed me my brother and another local boy to clean up the garden while he was at work one of the jobs was smashing some bricks we smashed them all up though then decided it would be fun to throw the pieces at the neighbors air conditioner. we smashed it up pretty good and when my dad found out he went off his nut at us and make us do chorus for the neighbors.

me and the local kids would hide in the bushes with water balloons and when a car went past we would jump up and peg as many as we could at the car and run.


i was a real little shit.

[Llama Gibbz]

> My mother was a Punk
> I had a SNES, and me and my friends used to laugh at the kid accross the street who had a SEGA Mega Drive
> I got bullied at school
> We left my dad, when i was 9
> I beat up all the school bullies and got booted out of school
> I used to enjoy setting fire to stuff
> I was put into the care of social services

Need i say more?

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[Dave-ros]

That's what I was thinking. Heh heh, cool!

[RedSplat]

I was born ass first.

I've set fire to a church, more or less by accident. Was burning stuff near it.. :P

Have thrown light fire crackers on kindergarten playground. Caught by a cop the next day when we did it again.

Set fire to multiple gardens and other burnable objects.

Stole a small toy once, but didn't play with it, felt terribly guilty.

Drank pee from a girl, who said it was apple juice. (little bitch!)

Daily spitting on the back of chickens to see the other chickens frantically pecking the gobber off. Great fun, when the chickens saw me they fought for the best spit receiving spot.

Master tree-climber, 60 feet climbs.

Broken some limbs, burned some hands, KO'd some other kids..etc..etc.

My family always told others i was a really sweet boy.
And I was, when they were around.

[Dave-ros]

Am I the only one who wasn't a pyromaniac as a child? Is this why I enjoy burning things in Far Cry 2, because I never got it out of my system before?

Actually, I never had an imaginary friend when I was a child, so I'm making up for it by having lots of imaginary enemies now :p

[ZuljinRaynor]

Well, my dad was a Pyromaniac as a child, and my younger brother was somewhat (he's grown out of it) but I never was really. I just was more about playing games on the computer. :p

[Dave-ros]

Same here -- I never went out starting sh*t in my neighbourhood, I was too busy playing on my Amstrad! :o

I wonder how many of today's kids will be posting in a thread like this in 20 years' time, idly reminiscing about knifing strangers and stealing their iPods... ah, innocent days, before the weight of the world crushed me...

[ZuljinRaynor]

I never went outside either.

[Dave-ros]

Did you have pasty skin? I got labelled "Dead Dave" at school :insomnia:

[Llama Gibbz]

I didnt have a single toy that i didnt at least put a match to once.
Especially model cars and action figures.

Had my first cigarette at 8,surprisingly never took up the habit.
Considering all my friends in high school later on did.

[Pansa]

true story, i tried to commit suicide prenatal.

one quick flip, tried to strangle myself.
still joking about it in retrospect of how my life turned out.
the joke can go either way.

I didnt have a single toy that i didnt at least put a match to once.
Especially model cars and action figures.

interesting im still told that i furiously tried to disprove newton (unconciesly).
first by trying to keep almost anything in the air (usualy by throwing it) later by being uterly fascinated by magnets. (i still dont get magnetism, howeveroften im confronted with the math ^^)

[ZuljinRaynor]

Did you have pasty skin? I got labelled "Dead Dave" at school :insomnia:

No I didn't. But like everyone in elementary and middle school made fun of me. In middle school it was much better in 7th and 8th grade. Then in 8th grade I finally told some people to piss off and then they stopped.

[Dave-ros]

Funnily enough, it was only during the two years I was at an all-boys private school that I stopped being the one everyone made fun of -- I actually managed to have some people below me in the pecking order! Then we moved house and I started going to a mixed school, and my name was mud again until I got into the 6th form (17-18). Typical :(

Maybe I should have tried your technique... but then, knowing my luck, I'd have been suspended for being a bully :doh:

[ZuljinRaynor]

Well, I was made to say it by a teacher.

Since I was in one of those silly "Gifted and Talented" programs (you know, basically cause you are a nerd and you get better scores than the jocks), I wasn't in the class, or more like homeroom since it was the end of the day, I come in and everyone is like... depressed.

The teacher was holding the whole class until who ever wrote the, as I would later find out, detention slip and put it on my desk. (Apparantly I tripped someone... who was walking behind me and stepped on my shoe or something so these guys who were *******s wanted to write me a detention slip). The teacher explained what was happening and told me to tell them that I'm tired of their bullying and to leave me alone. And I told them that what they do is stupid and to leave me alone. I would've told them to piss off had I not been a goody good kid in middle school who followed the rules and wasn't ever fighting, in high school I could fend for myself much better since after this I got a huge confidence boost.

Yeah, it worked.

[Chimera]

I was born ass first.


Hey me too!!! Breach babies FTW :P

When small my nickname was bush baby because of my big eyes. Coupled with the fact that I used to fall asleep with my eyes open, it has and still occasionally does freak people out.
My other name was liquorice legs, because I was (am still am) pretty skinny.

[Dave-ros]

So if you were in a boring lecture, you wouldn't need those glasses with fake eyes on them to make it look like you were still awake? :D

[Timiditas]

Did you have pasty skin? I got labelled "Dead Dave" at school :insomnia:

Haha. Same here.
I however wasted(?) my time with Commodore computers. Namely C64 and Amiga (500,600,1200). Today I am called "(The) Vampire" at work. :D

[Dave-ros]

Commodore 64 was massive phail, the Amstrad CPC ruled the 8-bits. Bow down!!! :tinyted:

Part of me wishes I'd gotten an Amiga back then, but fat chance -- it was that or private school, and I think I made the right choice, especially considering I now have an uber-PC -- good computers are wasted on kids! :p

[wayskobfssae]

Most interesting fact about my childhood... it's lasted for 30.9 years.

[Chimera]

So if you were in a boring lecture, you wouldn't need those glasses with fake eyes on them to make it look like you were still awake? :D

Awake but ever so slightly dead, yes.

[RedSplat]

Hey me too!!! Breach babies FTW :P

Coupled with the fact that I used to fall asleep with my eyes open, it has and still occasionally does freak people out.


Wow, me too, a girl once told me she saw me "sleeping" with my eyes open. ( i think it's just waking up but not reacting) And she was spooked and didn't want to sleep in the same bed. :D
Ass first FTW.

[peoplessi]

- I was born with 2 front teeth
- I have survived few very close-to-death situations as child, falling from a tree on my back - just missing tree stump
- I regularly fought with neigbours child, age was with both 6-8years or something like that
- Played GoldenEye on N64 with 3 friends 18hours straight
- Loved games on early age, my uncle downloaded Doom shareware to our PC :) Took ages, but it was worth it. First FPS I played was Wolfenstein 3-D

[Chimera]

Wow, me too, a girl once told me she saw me "sleeping" with my eyes open. ( i think it's just waking up but not reacting) And she was spooked and didn't want to sleep in the same bed. :D
Ass first FTW.

Redsplat, I think we must be secret twins.

(btw. for anyone interested, when you're asleep with your eyes open you can still see. I've fallen asleep and had strange dreams which have incorporated images on the posters that I could see on my bedroom wall. It's not recommended as you tend to wake up with dry eyes.)

[eddym4814]

-I got a voice activated cannon for Christmas one year. When it didn't work it was sent back to Hasbro. A few months later we got a huge box of toys in the mail. It was like Christmas in the spring.
-First console was an Atari 5200.
-There were lots of woods where I lived and we built forts all the time.
-I loved fireworks.
-One of the neighbors wives used lots of hairspray and tossed the cans in a gully behind their house. When we didn't have any fireworks we would collect the cans, make a campfire at our fort, toss a can on the fire, hide behind the fort and wait for the bang. Stupid little brats.:o

[Phait]

I can't remember anything interesting/unusual about my childhood. But I was born premature at 2lbs 10oz and could fit in a shoebox, there's even a pic of me in a christmas stocking :tinyted: At that time ('82) surviving premature birth was a feat, and obviously I did.

Thus, I am immortal.

[IceColdDuke]

I think i was the only high school kid to get locked up with his BF for a DUI :|.

[Dopefish7590]

- I was over-obsessed with a game called Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century combat... And it was the only reason I was able to use DOS as age 6.
- I've escaped death a few times, like falling out of a tree 200ft in the air, or making a jetpack, yes I did fly, but not how I expected... :o
- I was born with my umbilical cord around my neck. (Yes, that explainsso much doesn't it?)

[hightreason]

Drank pee from a girl, who said it was apple juice. (little bitch!)

I did that once, but i knew what it was.


Well, my dad was a Pyromaniac as a child

My dad still is... well, he was the last time i saw him, he's the one who taught me how to make things explode.

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A few people mentioned nightmares...
I had a few recuring ones, the latter is one i still have.

First one:
Me and sonic the hedgehog were robbing a house, we stole the SEGA and the telly, but when the coppers arrived, he ran off at sonic speed and left me to be arrested.

Second one:
At my grandmas, i was spraying a hose at things in the kitchen (WTF?) and went in the living room, the fire pulls itself off the wall and chases me.

^ Weird dreams.

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I saw my mam today, remembered a few more things;
> Was arrested twice when i was 14 (second time, i hadn't done anything, honestly)
> Up to the age of 11 i really wanted a sister, so i could bully someone (probably wouldn't have happened, girls are terrible bullies, and it really hurts when they beat you up)
> I had a whole immaginary world called Guk
> I ruptured the main sewage line under a bridge near my house
> I went fishing for bikes in the ditch which ran under that same bridge
> A girl made me have sex with her, but i didn't know anything about what i was doing, she was the same age as me, i was about 8 at the time, my mam nearly caught us
> I stole my best friends BMX bike, re-painted it, replaced parts on it and sold it back to him for about £25
> I got banned from my primary and secondary school computers for hacking into them (i don't count guessing the password and pratting peoples accounts about as hacking)
> A girl locked me in the girls toilets at school, then told the teacher i had gone in there of my own accord - i was in a lot of trouble
> Me and a few other lads found the entrance to the loft at school, we set a fire in there

That's all for now.

[sherrybaby]

-I stuck a crayon up my nose and it broke. Had to go to the hospital to get it out. After that, broken crayons scared me for years.
-My best friend and I convinced my brother that we had a teleporter in our closets and we could go visit each other without actually leaving the house.
-I thought that the canopy on my bed was there to keep the attic trolls from falling on me when they worked at night if they broke the ceiling above me (they had axes and they hacked things up in the attic apparently).
-I got sick to my stomach every Christmas Eve. Most likely from all the baked goods and the excitement.
-I stopped believing in Santa when I was 5, but never told my parents because I thought if they knew I didn't believe, that I wouldn't get presents
-I was an annoying brat.
-In religion class (at my PUBLIC elementary school) I was told I was going to hell by my teacher because I was never baptized/christened.
-I was clawed in the eye by our cat as an infant. Surprisingly, my eyesight is just now starting to fail me. Dang old age.

[Steve]

Hmm

-I was born :p
-My mother used to give away all my toys as a kid, even on my birthdays. She recently took $12000 my father saved for my university and bought a car for my sister and her boyfriend. As "computers are a waste of time"

-My father used to sneak me into arcades when I was about 4 or 5 :D
-Didn't like a lot of kids my own age when I was in "grade" school
-Was obsessed with TMNT and dinosaurs
-Liked to fight a lot
-I was super fit as a kid
-???
-?

[Ironside]

Star Wars and GI Joe, everything else is just a blur.

[Phait]

Hmm
She recently took $12000 my father saved for my university and bought a car for my sister and her boyfriend. As "computers are a waste of time"

What the ****?! Are you even on speaking terms with her? Who in their right mind...

-I was super fit as a kid


Explains why you're hotter than me :love:

[Steve]

What the ****?! Are you even on speaking terms with her? Who in their right mind...

I haven't spoken to her in over a year because of it. Doesn't really surprise the rest of the family that she's still doing it.



Explains why you're hotter than me :love:

/hip thrust. :love:

[ZuljinRaynor]

She recently took $12000 my father saved for my university and bought a car for my sister and her boyfriend. As "computers are a waste of time"

What. The. F*ck.

[ryche]

My dad told me much later on that he regretted ever bringing a computer into the household as he believes it ruined me later on in life (like when going to college...)

(funny thing is that my family usually calls me for help fixing their computers...the irony)

I was able to learn to drive at the age of 14 (thank you Alaska!) but moved from there when I was 16. My parents wouldn't let me get a drivers license til we arrived in Utah (which we didn't move until June and my birthday was in Feb!). Then when we got to Utah, I had to take a driver's ed course in high school prior to getting my license. I was almost 17 by the time I got my driver's license and was able to drive myself around.

I hated English class. Despised Romeo & Juliet and I still can't believe I had a test based off that damn story. Shakespeare can kiss my ass!

Being a military brat, we moved around. Luckily it was always during the summer time and never really interfered with my school.

[ZuljinRaynor]

My dad told me much later on that he regretted ever bringing a computer into the household as he believes it ruined me later on in life (like when going to college...)

My parents are like that. :p

[ryche]

-My mother used to give away all my toys as a kid, even on my birthdays. She recently took $12000 my father saved for my university and bought a car for my sister and her boyfriend.

sue her

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My parents are like that. :p

Ya but your first computer probably wasn't a Commodore 64 :)

[someguy2435]

Most of my childhood was pretty boring. I either had my nose buried in a book, was drawing random things while making sound effects or playing with Lego. Oh, I did nearly kill myself once when I hit a rock and flung myself from my bicycle.

[ZuljinRaynor]

Ya but your first computer probably wasn't a Commodore 64 :)

Well, no. I got my first computer in 1995 when I was 5. At first my parents would play games too, but several years down the road they stopped and regretted letting me use the computer so much.

[ryche]

> I got banned from my primary and secondary school computers for hacking into them (i don't count guessing the password and pratting peoples accounts about as hacking)


I got suspended in high school for that on week of my birthday. I guessed this kid's stupid password (cable it was since he liked the guy from X-Men). I didn't do anything other than just left a note saying make a more secure password...and yeah, that sucked. The vice-principal was saying he was going to call the cops and have me arrested and all this shit. They had emails of mine with this kid that had no relevance on the situation but they were thinking I was bragging to him I did it...lol

They only knew it was me cause the computer activity log showed I logged off then he logged in right afterward and that was about it. I don't think I ever admitted to the kid it was me. I don't remember cause I try and block that stupid act out of my mind...

Thanks a lot :p

[Marty Chang]

- I was born as a "viking baby": I came out, stood up, looked at the doctor, and didn't cry one bit.
- My father got me hooked on computers at a very young age. One of my first memories was playing a Richard Scarry's Busytown game on a computer when I was around 2 years old.
- My parents taught me to be independent when I speak from a very young age. While it gave me some serious testicles in the voicing opinions department, it also carried a bit too far. One example is when, in 4th grade, a gym teacher was scolding me when I suddenly yelled "GET OUT OF MY FACE!!!". That didn't go over too well with the school.
- Another one of my memories was this awesome guy named Raaj that owned a convenience store near where I lived. He would give me free stuff, like candy and slurpees and stuff.
- I absolutely loved Tabasco sauce, from a very young age. One time, when I was around 2 and a half years old, I scooted myself in a walker into the kitchen, where my mom was preparing dinner. The fridge was left open, and I took a bottle of Tabasco from the fridge, wandered back to the living room, and chugged the mother down like it was milk in front of the TV. Didn't cry or nuthin. Mom freaked out.

More as I remember them.

[Steve]

What. The. F*ck.

My father had some money around and only managed to pay for half of this year because of it. I'm stuck with a heck of a student loan bill now :( Such is life! Carry on :D


sue her[COLOR="Silver"]


Haha. Good luck. She's a feminist. Seems to get you everywhere in the eyes of the law here :(

[ZuljinRaynor]

I never got detention in school, I did get it once but it was a fake detention to make the kids who bullied me stop whining (this was before I told them to piss off). After school I just waited 1 minute before leaving class.

My father had some money around and only managed to pay for half of this year because of it. I'm stuck with a heck of a student loan bill now :( Such is life! Carry on :D
But wasn't it saved for you? How can your mother do that? What the f*ck!?
Haha. Good luck. She's a feminist. Seems to get you everywhere in the eyes of the law here :(
Although I believe in women having same rights as men, feminists are stupid. That's bullshit that one's sex works like that.

[Ironside]

I never got detention in school, I did get it once but it was a fake detention to make the kids who bullied me stop whining (this was before I told them to piss off). After school I just waited 1 minute before leaving class.
You were a total goodie goodie?

[ZuljinRaynor]

You were a total goodie goodie?

Yeah, up until High School.

In High School I started not necesarrily being bad, but you know I've cheated on some tests, made fun of people cause they were outright annoying and wouldn't leave my friends and me alone, made fun of teachers and started being more sarcastic. I also talked in some classes without raising my had to make comments.

[Steve]

I never got detention in school, I did get it once but it was a fake detention to make the kids who bullied me stop whining (this was before I told them to piss off). After school I just waited 1 minute before leaving class.
LOL. That's awesome :D I didn't get bullied that much, and those that did bully me got a quick punch in the face :o

People thought I was "odd" in middle school as I was damn fit, trained a lot but never hung out with "the sports crowd". They were ******* retarded. I liked to hang out with the nerdy people :o They were much nicer... and played video gamez! :love:

[ZuljinRaynor]

People thought I was "odd" in middle school as I was damn fit, trained a lot but never hung out with "the sports crowd". They were ******* retarded. I liked to hang out with the nerdy people :o They were much nicer... and played video gamez! :love:

People thought I was odd since I wanted to talk about computers and computer games instead of cartoons and sports. Which is odd cause these kids playing N64 and stuff but that didn't seem to matter to them.

Of course High School came around and everyone was sucking Halo dick.

[Steve]

I never got detention in school, I did get it once but it was a fake detention to make the kids who bullied me stop whining (this was before I told them to piss off). After school I just waited 1 minute before leaving class.


But wasn't it saved for you? How can your mother do that? What the f*ck!?

Although I believe in women having same rights as men, feminists are stupid. That's bullshit that one's sex works like that.

It wasn't agreed on "paper" that it was for my uni...so... she got a god damn ******* CAR. :doh: Family isn't too damn happy about it.



People thought I was odd since I wanted to talk about computers and computer games instead of cartoons and sports. Which is odd cause these kids playing N64 and stuff but that didn't seem to matter to them.

Of course High School came around and everyone was sucking Halo dick.
Damn that sucks. All we talked about in grade and middle school was nes, snes, mega drive and PSX games. It was really odd for a kid to speak about cartoons here.

[ZuljinRaynor]

It wasn't agreed on "paper" that it was for my uni...so... she got a god damn ******* CAR. :doh: Family isn't too damn happy about it.

Was it your father's own account or was it shared... also... she didn't ASK anyone about it? WTF?!

[Steve]

Was it your father's own account or was it shared... also... she didn't ASK anyone about it? WTF?!

Yes, it was his too. But the legal run around, time and legal costs to get it back isn't worth it :( She knew that.


She asked my sister if she wanted a car...

[Ironside]

In 6th grade I had to go to my locker during class to get something. When I got there the school bully was there with some kid pinned up against the lockers. The bully let the kid go and focused his attention on me. I tried to ignore him but he grabbed me and pinned me up to the lockers. I thought about my options and out of instinct I knee him in the nuts twice then punched him in the face. he let go of me then and I ran off. Later I went to the bathroom inbetween classes and the bully was standing in with some of the other lesser bullies bullying people. When I came in the bully decided to talk cool about me and he told his friends that I was cool.

[ZuljinRaynor]

After playing Duke 3D one time I started running around the house saying "Die you salalabetch." My mom picked up that I was trying to say "Die you son of a bitch" and told me not to say that. I went and turned Duke Talk off and played some more. My mom came in and was like, "was it from the game?" I lied and said "no." :o

[Steve]

After playing Duke 3D one time I started running around the house saying "Die you salalabetch." My mom picked up that I was trying to say "Die you son of a bitch" and told me not to say that. I went and turned Duke Talk off and played some more. My mom came in and was like, "was it from the game?" I lied and said "no." :o

lol :D

[Phait]

Oh yeah, my friend locked me in a locker in 2nd grade. We'd laugh about it later as we attended junior high together, or ran into eachother over the years. Also we'd laugh about the time he lent me Super Mario All Stars for SNES, and I sold it. His mom called my dad about this - he had to buy it, and he was pissed :D

[Ironside]

In 5th grade I dressed up like a ninja and climbed on top of the school. I was ninjaing around up there and someone seen me and called the police. It wasent long before a few cop cars surrounded the building. Being a true ninja I decided that I was going to sneak out of there. When the helicopter showed up I decided to take my ninja mask off and surrender.
The cops brought me to my grandfathers house and I was busted. 3 months.

[Phait]

A helicopter? Really? :p That reminds me when I was like 13, one of my younger asian friends and I would dress like ninjas, and around sunset climb over a fence in our neighbors back yard into my friends backyard, and sneak in his "tree house" (it was a well built small house on the lawn) looking for stuff, found some notebooks with drawings or something. It was soooo fun sneaking around. We never got caught :D

[Ironside]

I was up on the roof for about an hour hiding from the cops. They knew I was up there they had seen me looking for a place to come down. After I didnt come down a chopper came. they didnt know I was a kid, I was wearing all black with a mask on.
This is what the movie Revenge of the Ninja (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCsIklUii_Y) did to me.

[Dave-ros]

I also never got detention at school, and yes, I was a goody-goody, what of it? I didn't study particularly hard, though -- I tended to coast through things and do above-average. In American terms, you'd call me a solid "B"-student, with occasional "A"s. I got six "A"s and three "B"s in my GCSEs when I was 16, and I started studying for them around the end of the Easter holidays -- so about a week or so. Imagine what I could have achieved if I could have been bothered! ;)

[peoplessi]

I saw all those movies - Star Wars, Predator, Terminator, Alien and so on very early age, my older brother brought some VHS's. Used to watch SW very often, same with Terminator :o

"Outerlimits" intro really scared me as a child, very disturbing shit :)

[Steve]

A helicopter? Really? :p That reminds me when I was like 13, one of my younger asian friends and I would dress like ninjas, and around sunset climb over a fence in our neighbors back yard into my friends backyard, and sneak in his "tree house" (it was a well built small house on the lawn) looking for stuff, found some notebooks with drawings or something. It was soooo fun sneaking around. We never got caught :D

Mate, that is ******* hilarious :D

[hightreason]

oh, i forgot, i didn't do any GCSE's
But or go to school from age 10 to 13, then they put me in a PRU - which isn't really a school, more of an educational establishment for yobbos.
Somehow i got into college, and fought my way through disciplinaries to abtain a few IT qualifications.

[Sang]

Hehe, this thread is awesome :D Maybe I'll recall some stories of my own tomorrow but now it's getting rather late :(

[Nessus]

- I got locked out of my house when I was 5 and after banging on the door for a few minutes I punched out the glass and opened it from the inside, got just a small scrape on the wrist.

- I would make my own fireworks by taping wings on ground flowers so they could fly. I blew up every toy I ever had when I got old enough to buy blockbusters and M-80's.

- I daydreamed my way through school doing enough to pass.

- My and my friend would have the neighbor girl get naked behind the garage for pieces of Fruit Stripe Gum.

-Walking home from school we saw a guy throw a lit cigar out the bus window and ran full speed to smoke the rest of it.

-A local pedophile would leave toys for me and my friends and then appear and say that this crazy guy guy MR. X was doing it and that he was watching out for us keeping us safe.

[ZuljinRaynor]

- My and my friend would have the neighbor girl get naked behind the garage for pieces of Fruit Stripe Gum.
:o

- A local pedophile would leave toys for me and my friends and then appear and say that this crazy guy guy MR. X was doing it and that he was watching out for us keeping us safe.

Haha!

[ryche]

- My and my friend would have the neighbor girl get naked behind the garage for pieces of Fruit Stripe Gum.


Well hopefully she was hot cause it ain't worth the gum to see anything but that.

[The Baskinator]

- I was a boring bookworm.
- I played a lot of video games.
- I used to make short films and sketch comedy shows with my cousins.
- I had some sort of weird obsession with skeletons. I still do.

[Bludd]

/me uses this thread to perform identity theft

[Ironside]

When I was in first grade my mother put me and my brother on a plane alone to fly to Texas to live with our grandparents while Mom and Dad divorced. I remember the Black and white photo of my grandparents my Mom gave me as she hugged me goodbuy. At that age I had no memory of my grandparents so it was scary. I remember checking the pic when we arrived to see if they were my real grandparents.

[Sang]

So far I can remember only one thing (don't know how old I was, maybe 4 or 5).. I didn't have a PC yet IIRC but the neighbors did. It was a PC, still using DOS :D Then I would check out how the neighbor kid played games like Wolfenstein 3D, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Crystal Caves, Secret Agent (yeah, mostly Apogee stuff!)

I had no idea those games were all made by Apogee, only discovered that years later (2002 or so) when I checked out the 3DR downloads page (I got here through Duke Nukem 3D and Duke Nukem 2 before that).. What a coincidence! ;)

Anyway in comparison to you guys (getting girls naked, beating up bullies, setting stuff on fire) I was a nice, boring kid. ;)

[Dave-ros]

Hey, beating up bullies = nice thing to do... so long as you don't cross that thin line and become a bully yourself ;)

[Sang]

Heh well actually all that stuff sounds very fun, too bad I missed out on all of that! Maybe later in life I'll become an arsonist :insomnia:

Oh, one more thing suddenly came into mind: I'm sure you know that at some beach cities you can hire wacky looking bicycles (shaped like cars or other stuff). I liked riding those. So one time we (me, my brother and my parents) were in some other town.. not located near a beach, but I thought it was and I was pissed because I didn't get to ride any bicycles!

Then we were back in our car and while we were driving already I just opened the door. "My bicycles are waiting for me!", I thought. My dad hit the brakes instantly though so I wasn't harmed. :p

[FrenzalBop]

I had this waste paper bin in my bedroom and late one night decided to set it on fire. The fire got a bit out of control and my dad came running in with a bucket of water and put it out. He made me go to women volleyball with him as punishment which i rely didnt mind. On the way back from vollyball there was a garage sale and i brought a rely cheap surfboard from there. Its not very often that a punishment becomes a reward.

I also remember when shadow warrior first came out and me and my brother couldn't stop quoting lo wang.

[ixfd64]

As a child, I had one and the same nightmare every night. They lasted from when my memories begin until nearly exactly when we moved out of the house where I was risen.
Much later on I was told that the first husband of my mother has killed himself, strung himself up in the attic.
Now that information scared me 'till today. :dopefish:

Holy crap! That's pretty creepy!

[Jeff]

Seemed to travel around a lot when I was a kid. After leaving Houston in 1984 (stayed in the hospital for about 5 months or so because of medical stuff), we moved to Indonesia and a few other places over in southeast Asia. Lived their for 5 years. In 1989, I moved to Canada. It was the first time I actually saw snow. When I was 9 or so, I moved to Saudi Arabia and lived there for about a year. Moved back because some civil war was happening.

As for school and such, I wasn't exactly the smartest guy around. Got picked on a lot because I was different. Didn't really make any friends. Still don't have any, lol. Long story short, my childhood was rough. Adulthood seems to have done better though. Life is good.

[Phait]

Indonesia? Cool!

[Jeff]

My dad worked over there as well as Saudi Arabia. Guess it paid a bit more, but staying in Calgary is probably a better choice, family wise.

[wayskobfssae]

Well hopefully she was hot cause it ain't worth the gum to see anything but that.

Anyone want to take a stab at what her profession is now?

[thefly]

I was ejected from a piece of McDonald's playground equipment (the spinning hamburger) when I was about eight years old. Two older kids got it spinning really fast and physics took over and slingshot-ed me out of that mother. I flew a pretty far.

[Damien_Azreal]

I was 12 when my mother was diagnosed with cancer.

I was diagnosed with a social anxiety disorder at 10.
I was also diagnosed with OCD at 11.

I was stabbed in the head with a pole-vault pole at a track-meet at 12.
Sliced my shin and my calf open (leg was wrapped with barbed wire) at 10.
Had same calf sliced open twice with a weedeater at 12.

Ummm... got sent in for counseling in elementary school, middle school and high school for my drawings and short stories. :p

[Phait]

Damn Damien :o scars much?

I stepped on a nail while running at my grandpa's place that he was building up, I didn't feel anything or know about it until I took my shoe off and saw red on the sock.

In 3rd grade I dropped a pencil and my teacher tossed it back, the point landed in my right palm and broke off. Kinda hurt, but didn't think anything of it. To this day I have ap iece of graphite stuck there, that you can barely see beneath the skin. I want it removed and kept in a vial. Although, maybe it has magical powers and explains why I never get sick. Who knows!

[Damien_Azreal]

The one on my forehead is very light, you have to look very close to even notice it... but it's a nice half moon shape. :)

My right leg though, yes... very scarred. But you know... these things happen when you grow up out in the country, have no friends or kids near by... and have to find your own source of entertainment. :)

Thanks to my wonderful childhood... now I don't even notice cuts and such. Sliced almost half an inch into my thumb a few months back... didn't even notice until someone pointed it out to me. :p

[Sang]

Sounds spooky. One day you'll stab yourself to death but keep walking around because you won't realize it :o

[Timiditas]

"The sixth sense"? Bruce Willis rules :cool:

[wayskobfssae]

Am I the only one who wasn't a pyromaniac as a child? Is this why I enjoy burning things in Far Cry 2, because I never got it out of my system before?

Nope, I wasn't a Pyro either. Not in the way these maniacs are though. I did set fire to things on occasion, but whenever I did, it was in the fireplace. I guess I was just weird like that... you know... not wanting to get killed in a house fire. Crazy me. I was kinda obsessed with fireworks though, even though they were illegal in my state. Dunno if that counts as being a Pyro though or it just means I liked seeing colorful fireballs flying through the air.

About your Far Cry thing, I think part of my recent interest in Airsoft games may have been spawned by the fact that I never owned a BB gun when I was a kid.

[Jiminator]

I would burn everything that was burnable, but I mostly did it in a controlled fashion, in a 5 gallon bucket filled with dirt in the back yard behind some bushes. must have inhaled tons of plastic smoke. One of the worse experiences was trying to burn a tennis ball in our shed that was connected to the house. It was lit but would not stay lit, so I made the mistake of pouring gas on it. from a plastic milk jug that we used to store gas. The fire travelled up and was burning everywhere. I hauled ass to get a hose and sprayed everything and the fire went out. So I can say with certainty that fire will not go into a container and cause an explosion, as it snuffs the oxygen.

[John]

I set the tree in our front lawn on fire when i was 5. :o

[sawn_off]

I once went walking in the dirt lot by my house. Stared at the ground for a second, and lo and behold. I found a gun. Colt .25 auto. Cleaned it up and it worked great. Loved that thing.

[jimbob]

i was a pyromaniac and a sadistic bastard.

so all in all i havent changes in the last 23 years.

never did anything terribly bad though, just regular kid stuff. we spent most of our time playing 'war' and pretended blowing eachothers brains out before video games made us do it 'for real'

[Nimoy]

I once went walking in the dirt lot by my house. Stared at the ground for a second, and lo and behold. I found a gun. Colt .25 auto. Cleaned it up and it worked great. Loved that thing.

Yeah, and it was probably linked to various murders.

[Phait]

Thats what I was thinking.

[wayskobfssae]

ALL kids who rob gun stores say "It was laying on the ground" when the parents find it in their room. :D

[NutWrench]

During my first (and last) day in the Boy Scouts, I built a log cabin out of pretzels.

[Duke's New Chainsaw]

Yeah, and it was probably linked to various murders.

Now is that before or after he found it?


;)

[Steve]

I once went walking in the dirt lot by my house. Stared at the ground for a second, and lo and behold. I found a gun. Colt .25 auto. Cleaned it up and it worked great. Loved that thing.

lol. You're joking, right? :o

[Sang]

Yeah I'd think shotguns would suit sawn_off better.


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[Altered Reality]

- I was born a month before term.
- I could read fluently by the time I was 3.
- I had my tonsils and adenoids removed when I was 7 because of a chronic infection.
- I had 2 bouts of pneumonia before I was 9.
- I couldn't go out much because my mother was very strict.
- I was a fervent fan of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, The Real Ghostbusters and Tenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- In elementary school, my classmates admired me because I was the most intelligent kid in my class.
- My attempt to learn to ride a bike ended with me picking up the bike and throwing it away in rage, swearing that I'd just wait to be old enough to get my driving license instead. That's exactly what I did.
- I had read and understood a whole medical encyclopedia by the time I was 8.
- I received my first computer (an Amiga 500) when I was 9, and I loved it.
- I had read and understood "A Brief History of Time" by the time I was 10.
- In middle school, my classmates bullied me because I was the most intelligent kid in my class.

[peoplessi]

"- My attempt to learn to ride a bike ended with me picking up the bike and throwing it away in rage, swearing that I'd just wait to be old enough to get my driving license instead. I did."

But why? It's so convinient vehicle, and good for you also, I LOVE biking. Maybe that's why I can't understand the logic there :)

[wayskobfssae]

- In elementary school, my classmates admired me because I was the most intelligent kid in my class.

Oh crap... we've got a visitor from the bizarro dimension in our midst...

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But why? It's so convinient vehicle, and good for you also, I LOVE biking. Maybe that's why I can't understand the logic there :)

No kidding....

Stop feeding the evil oil industry. When the Chinese all buy cars, we have to maintain the balance by learning to ride bikes.

[Pansa]

Oh crap... we've got a visitor from the bizarro dimension in our midst...

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No kidding....

Stop feeding the evil oil industry. When the Chinese all buy cars, we have to maintain the balance by learning to ride bikes.
don't worry , they'll be off gas-cars and on to electric before you are.^^

not for the lack of oportunity..

[Micki!]

- As a little kid of 1-3 years of age, i attended to a german kindergarden near where my parents lived, it was cheaper and not far away at all, and i leanred another language that way too, since then i have primarily watched German TV, untill i got better at reading, after which i could actually follow subtitled movies

- After 2 years in grade school, i was switched over to another school of "problem kids" due to my different way of acting and thinking... Unlike the other kids there,i was the calm type that didn't liked being pushe dinto corners (teachers screaming when mad) which could make me blow a serious fuse... It was later noted that i had Aspergers Syndrome, so i switched to another school later, a special school in a diferent city, i attended there untill 10'th grade, never got any exams, or proper education... But i learned to control myself greatly, and unlike amny people with aspergers syndrome and Autism, i like being wither people and getting social... I suck har dat Math though, but i have photographic memory, which was proven through several tests, yay...

- I used to draw literal taken terms on paper as images, which often ended up as very amusing to the teachers of my school at the time... The drawings later got put on postal letters that were made for a limited available time for people to buy... Had i known it would go that far, i'd have re-drawn them with some actual effort, hahahahahah...

- I learned as kid, that it's not smart sticking your finger into a spinning bike's wheel...

- I had a strange obsession with Pirates when i was a kid, when i got my first Pirate costume for Fastelavn (some event thingy we have in denmark, not unlike Halloween, but not NEARLY as consumer-heavy, popular and "important") I used to wear the costume many times after the event though, and liked to pretend i was a pirate...

- I loved to burn things, especially things that burst violently into flames, and roasting ants with magnyfying glasses and other burning material... I still like playing with fire and blowing shit up, but it's a more playful thing rather than destructive, New Years is a true playground-day for me... I still have a thing against ants...

[wayskobfssae]

After 2 years in grade school, i was switched over to another school of "problem kids" due to my different way of acting and thinking... Unlike the other kids there,i was the calm type that didn't liked being pushe dinto corners (teachers screaming when mad) which could make me blow a serious fuse...

Oh yeah, this sounds familiar. I allegedly had a learning disability, so I got tossed into the 'special ed' department. Lucky me, everyone else who was in special ed was there for social problems... the kind of social problems that stereotypical inner city ghetto kids 3x their age have. So it was like I was being sent to maximum security prison for flunking a drivers' test. As a result, not only did I not get help for the problem I was sent there for, I also became somewhat of a sociopath. Good call, school psychiatrists.

I still have a thing against ants...

And yet your favorite sci-fi critter is the super-evolved version of them... go figure. :D

[Micki!]

And yet your favorite sci-fi critter is the super-evolved version of them... go figure. :D

Hey, the bigger they are, the harder they fall :D

[Altered Reality]

Oh crap... we've got a visitor from the bizarro dimension in our midst...
No, I was just lucky not to have "ghetto kids" as classmates in elementary school (but I did in middle school, and THAT'S why I got bullied there).

[Waiter]

Hmm... childhood.

3 cases of opposites:

- I ate a pack of cigarettes at the age of 2 and even though most of my friends have been smokers I never started smoking.

- I hit another boy on the first week of pre-school, age 6. It's the only time so far I've ever hit anyone with a fist (outside a dojo) but the guy I hit turned into a real badass and was locked up several times already during our school years. Among other things he invited another guy to his house to listen to his new records and the beat him half to death with a baseball bat. No idea what he does now.

- there were no computer games, but boy have I made up for that.

[evanazzo]

Hmm, lets see here.
1. Had a complicated birth. Lead to my back issues. Making it harder for me to get into the Military.
2. I was an ******* as a kid as well (still somewhat am). I stole I threw tantrums I had little friends because I never got along with the kids. I had behavioral issues (I have ADHD. Thanks Dad I got it from you :\) which I've since somewhat outgrown. I hated kids.
3. Because I hated kids and had little friends. I spent after school and weekends with my father playing on the computer or playing golf. My father was more of a friend then a dad.
4. We used to go to church every Sunday until I was about 5 and they couldn't remove me and/or my sister from the computer. We blew off church for videogames :P
5. Got my first system at age 10 it was an Atari.
6. I went to 3 grade schools due to my behavioral issues (I got suspended a lot). I am still in my first high school and have no plans to be kicked out.
7. I did my fair share of scrapping. I once tried to take on two of the bigger kids in my class on at once. Got my ass beat.

That's it. I was/am a little shit

[Timiditas]

- I ate a pack of cigarettes at the age of 2 and even though most of my friends have been smokers I never started smoking.

Some weeks ago I read that a grown up can DIE from nicotine intoxication after eating just 7 cigarettes. You ate a whole package, and you were 2. Are you some kind of ALF with 7 stomachs? :D

[Rider]

I ate a bottle of Prozac when I was around 2-ish... they had to send me to a hospital and pump the crap out...

...maybe that's why I'm screwed in the head :p

[alexgk]

I was bitten by like a hundred or so ants when I was 3
I went to DisneyLand when I was 4, and I don't remember anything
I learned to speak properly when I was 5

[Jiminator]

At 2 years old I doubt you have actual memories of the events, your parents may have told you that you ate an entire pack of cigarettes. based on what I can find one cigerette can make a toddler severely ill, 60mg can kill an adult, and that is about 5 cigarettes worth. But hey, maybe its all true and you have a super power. You should try standing in front of a speeding car to see if it does any damage... :)

[wayskobfssae]

You should try standing in front of a speeding car to see if it does any damage... :)

*shrug* My dog once ate an entire large bag full of Hershey's Kisses. Chocolate is like Cyanide for dogs. She survived.

[peoplessi]

*shrug* My dog once ate an entire large bag full of Hershey's Kisses. Chocolate is like Cyanide for dogs. She survived.

Depends, some dogs are more resilient, and your basic chocolate doesn't have much cocoa(=Theobromine) in it. The bigger the dog, the more likely is it to survive. So it depends on many factors.

Also, pack of cigarettes at age 2 is impossible.

[Waiter]

As for the cigarrettes, I didn't write the WHOLE package. I honestly don't know how much I ate. I have no memories of this at all, but my parents have been telling me my whole life about how I ate "a pack of cigarettes" and had to be taken straight to hospital and was made to through up.

The other story is about how I sat underneath a BBQ and ate charcoal and spent several days filling my diapers with pitch black poo. :o

[Steve]

The other story is about how I sat underneath a BBQ and ate charcoal and spent several days filling my diapers with pitch black poo. :o

Oh man that made me laugh hard :D

[Ironside]

I brought my gi joe f14 Sky Striker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHea6yk7aM) to school with me in the 3rd grade. I had to sit it up on a cabinet and I would stare at it all day.

[hightreason]

I remember when i was a kid, they told us we could bring 1 toy to school one day, so i brought my toy Chevrolet 4X4 (I dunno what it was meant to be, chevrolets only appeared in the UK recently)
It was an old metal toy, and all the other kids said it was cool cause all their toys were crappy modern plastic.
Brought my old Tonka digger in as well once, that was metal too, me and a kid who had a plastic one sat bashing them into one another until his broke, i liked having metal toys, you could use them to break the crappy ones you didn't like -such as Action Man, i hated him.

Speaking of which, at about 14 years old, i tied action man dolls to rockets and launched them into the sky, when i went on the feild again next day there was burned plastic arms and legs lying around all over the place.

[Timiditas]

Speaking of which, at about 14 years old, i tied action man dolls to rockets and launched them into the sky, when i went on the feild again next day there was burned plastic arms and legs lying around all over the place.

Remembers me of another story. One time, me and a (girl-)friend got drunk because we found a bottle of wine. In our mental derangement, we wanted to cook something so we made a whole pot full of butterfly noodles (farfalle).
Somehow we got into a real laugh-rage, and started to throw the farfalle out of the kitchen window, one, two, then a hand full, laughing our asses off. Stupid. Until none were left. You know, it was late evening, and you couldn't see anything out there.
Next day when I stood up I got a real shock when I looked out of the window. The meadow below was spread with noodles. Well it was a funny sight but I couldn't laugh anymore because my dad knew we were cooking the day before, doing pranksters. He didn't know we were drinking wine though. :insomnia:

[wayskobfssae]

Speaking of which, at about 14 years old, i tied action man dolls to rockets and launched them into the sky, when i went on the feild again next day there was burned plastic arms and legs lying around all over the place.

So, out of curiosity, do either of your parents work for Pixar? :p

[Phait]

Not quite childhood but I did bring in F-22 Raptor flight sim to geography class in high school. We had it set up on a projector as I flew over Iran and fired off missiles at bogeys, having to explain the Iranian geography in the process :p Sooooo fun. PEW PEW!

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1793/f22scr7l4180551.jpg

[gt1750]

- I was a car nerd since the age of 2 when I got my first die-cast Ferrari (1/43th 308 GTB, still in my collection)
- started drawing three-dimensional pictures of cars around the age of 5
- since I was 10, I was able to recognize most cars by a detail, from far away etc.
- I used to read a lot of 70s-80s car magazines after my ucle. My favorite part was reading strories and analyses of brutal car accidents
- I've never had a real interest in anything besides cars and computer games (not even women :o)

[Moocowjr]

Haha, this thread is awesome. Since I'm only 14 I can't really "look back" on some of these things. Well here are some of mine:

-First computer game I ever played was Duke Nukem 3D, when I was about 2-3 years old. My mom used to play it, and I figured out how to use a computer at a young age. I stumbled upon it and was hooked.
-I really like(d) burning things.
-I love ATV's and dirt bikes.
-I have nearly killed myself (snow) sledding several times.
-Once, My friend and I slid down a hill that was covered in ice, we could not stop and we crashed into a fence and went right through it.
-I was running, stepped in cat vomit, slid just like you see when people step on a banana peel on cartoons, and fell on my back.
-I found toilet-related things funny, for example my dad might say "Move, I need to back up the truck" and me and my friend would start laughing because he said "back up"
-okay here's a good one. There's this kid that lives near me that has ADD, and it was really bad when he was younger. Me and my friends would like to play with our toy trucks in a dirt pit, and he would sometimes come hang out with us. One day it was really hot out, so we decided to dig a pool for the kid to get in. After about an hour, we had a small hole dug about 2 feet deep, so we dragged the hose up and filled the hole with water. We told the kid that if he was cool he would get in the hole, so he did. he took off his clothes except for his underwear, and got in the sloppy mess. we took his clothes, ran off, and buried them. When he got out of the mud he had to walk home in his underwear. This was pretty bad, considering he lived about a half-mile away :P

[Mariamus]

My sister and I have the same birthday, with 1 year in between. (dec. 14, 81 and 82)
I was a tomboy, always liked computers, climbing trees, TMNT, Transformers.
I still love transformers, and I watch it every now and then :P

[jagguar20]

My childhood sucked.

So will the rest of my life.

[The Dukenator]

I don't remember my childhood much, but I did some things. Just can't recall them at the moment.