Things you did or said when you were young

[4ever]

I remember thinking at primary school that my hair would grown longer if I kept it wet. I remember wetting my under the drinking fountain alot at school and convincing my frainds to do the same.

I can't remember where I came up with the idea except it was probably logical for a 6 year old; plant grow more when they get water and my hair was longer when it was wet because the weight of the water streightened out the curls.

 

[oranges]

my mom just told me yesterday that I used to play with her elbow skin as a toddler-- apparently it would distract me if i was fussy-- so weird.

LOL I did something similar, I used to pinch the skin on top of her hand and tell her how squishy it was all of the time.

I love reading all of these...

My little brother was a butter eater too..he would try to steal spoonfuls at dinner.

Yay!!! I'm not alone
This thread is hilarious.

 

[sphenequeen]

If any of you are from So. Cal, you may know what I mean when I say,

"pussy cow, pussy cow, pussy cow."

(It actually should be "Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal).

I thought it was "Goat See Cow". (Seattle area had the same commercials.)

That is hilarious! I have had the "Cal Worthington" conversation with so many different people. I had no idea he had was so far reaching! I wonder where else he had his car lots! Anywho, I am glad you can relate... plus, I love what you thought the commercial jingle said!

 

[katamari]

I threw away all my cotton clothes because my Dad had convinced me that cotton only came from the tails of bunnies and I thought you had to kill the bunnies to get the cotton. (Once my parents found out, I then had to dig them all out of the trash can).

 

[dragonfly411]

I have to post one of my sister because it's hilarious. She used to love to make brownies with my grandmother. We have her ON VIDEO with this HUGE bowl that has the batter she can lick out. It was bigger than her head. In the video she would lift the bowl so the bottom faced the camera, lick it, then set it down very carefully, grab her coke, take a sip, set it down, and repeat... over... and over... and over...and over. It was SO FUNNY!

 

[princesss]

I threw away all my cotton clothes because my Dad had convinced me that cotton only came from the tails of bunnies and I thought you had to kill the bunnies to get the cotton. (Once my parents found out, I then had to dig them all out of the trash can).

Hahahahahaha! Oh man.

This reminds me - one year for Easter we had leg of lamb. My sister was young - maybe 5 or 6? Well, she was entertaining herself while my mom was cooking, drawing pictures and colouring, and when she showed us the picture it was of our Easter lamb, three-legged, running around a field. Because, I mean, it'd just be wasteful to kill the lamb when all you needed was it's leg, right?

 

[monarch64]

Things I said when I was young...when I was 3, my mother taped me ( and I mean she used a tape recorder, probably very few people here remember those) reading a book. Every time the word "tree," or "trees," or "children" came up, I would say "shree," '"shrees", or "shildren." I wasn't able to pronounce my "t's" at the time, but damnit, I could read.

I was also very, very against swearing, believe it or not. My father took me and my brother (who is four years older than me) to see several PG-13, or back then (1979-1982) R-rated movies so my mother could have a "me" night. I clearly remember lecturing them all the way home from the movie theater, and honestly my memory from sitting in the backseat of an open Jeep (no carseat, are you kidding?) was of me saying: "You guys are going to hell."

 

[AdiS]

When I was like 4 I vehemently hated milk. To make me drink it, my mom used to tell me that there's a cow just outside our house, waiting for me to drink my milk or she wouldn't be able to go back to her baby calf. I felt so sorry for the poor cow, that I agreed to drink the darned milk and then I always ran to the balcony, yelling at the top of my lungs "You can go now, cow! I'm done."

I figured out the ruse just a year or two later, but thought it was so funny that I kept doing it from time to time for years to come. The first time I did it while hubby and I were dating (yeah, I was 19 ) he was completely dumbfounded. I bet he was wondering what the hell has he gotten himself into.