What's your favorite memory as a kid?

For me, I'd have to say my friends doing whatever.. My parents were really cool.. Every weekend I'd have at least 3 or 4 kids overnight and I never had to ask them.. 7 or 8 more than once as we'd gather uptown on a Friday night and someone would say.. "hey, can I stay over too?". Sure.. why the hell not.. Everyone was always welcome at our house.. My folks used to let me bring friends almost anywhere we went.. like camping and stuff.. Good memories..

I still remember the kids in the neighborhood whose houses were always off limits.. Always wondered WTF is up with that?


How about you guys?

 

A past life memory of that day that stupid perv Gandhi got his just desserts,

 

Your parents either didn't like their parents or their kids, or both.

I remember being 7 and having to crawl into my friend Jenny's house on my elbows and knees, over the plastic bubble wrap 'path' her crazy parents had woven through every room in their crazy house.

Then Jenny made us watch the scene from Rambo 2 where he is covered in slugs over and over again.

 

Hahahahaha.... sounds wonderful..

 

My parents? From your qoute you must of meant the couple kids I remember parents.. whose house was always a no mans land..

 

I think that's what she said, wez.

 

What about you salt? You aint too old to remember..

 

Some of the best times we had as young teens were log fights.. hahaha

Used to go down by the river and some areas that always flooded every year, but not anymore, would be full of dead tree limbs.. We'd smack em against a tree and a piece would go flying.. someone nearly got hit one time and we thought it a riot so now it was the intent.. after a while we found it much easier to just hurl them at each other.. went home with a bloody head on two occasions.. lucky one of us didn't lose an eye.. Pretty sure I took the worst of it.. never saw another bleeding head... Remember one bouncing off the chest of my buddy once as me and him were on one side of a line against two others.. hahahahaha..

Never planned em.. they just happened. What a blast.. Laughed so hard we almost puked.

 

Mainly playing sandlot baseball, football and basketball. My first at bat iin softball aafter moving to a new school where I tripled. Could have gone for home but there was only one out. Playing war games and cowboys and indians in an un PC world.

 

No doubt.. loved the baseball and football games.. playing hockey.. Nice.. 3 bagger in the 1st at bat.. bet you'll never forget that.

Cowboys and Indians was great.. I'm sure you, like us, always had to force the weak pacifists to be the injuns.. hahahahaha

 

My favorite memory as a kid, was camping out with my close nit group of friends, the summer before we went into junior high. This memory is why I connect so much with the movie, Stand By Me. It wasn't long after entering junior high our group changed. We were still good friends, and stayed that way for a long time, but it was different.

 

Another favourite memory is my very earliest memory:

I'm crawling 'round and 'round in circles behind my twin sister and I can see her nappy very slowly falling down and sagging around her legs.

Not sure why that memory stayed in my head, but so be it.

 

Funny..


It's strange.. one of my earliest memories was playing in the field next to our house, where we built and moved into a new house when I was just short of 3.. but have no memory of being in our 1st house.. Not even riding my toy giraffe down the steps .. My mom said I hit the wall at the bottom and was just sitting there with the snapped off handles in my hands.. hahahahaha

But I do remember the house being built and moving in.. Musta hit my head on my joy ride..

Other great ones of are my 1st cat, goldie too.. God I loved that cat.. Got him at 3 and had him til 21..

 

Did something special happen camping out or just the usual changes in school at that age?

You guys didn't stumble on a dead body, did ya?

 

Water skiing on Table Rock Lake was great.

 

Another good one was in 8th grade english.. I was no star pupil, specially in English..our teacher had us write an essay about our feelings on war.. I still remember how I felt writing it.. I was shocked when she read mine and only mine in front of the class with a tear in her eye.. wish I had it now more than anything. Went somehing like this...

I don't understand how people can go to prison for the rest of their life for murdering someone but people get murdered in wars all the time.. among other rantings of a crazy child..

I guess some things do never change, eh? Hahahahahahahaha

I'd give just about anything to have it now to read it.. I let her keep it. Wonder if she still has it?

 

Nothing special, just like in the movie. I never had friends like the ones I had going into junior high. It was before, peer pressure, what had to be cool, girls and such. Just friends being friends, no need to put up a front, we were who we were.

 

How young are we talking? Because I've gone to some awesome keg'ers in my day.

 

I'm gonna plead Alzheimers.

 

NOW we know why wez is the way he is.