Children....

This is just about stories of us being a silly kid, I'm sure we have all done things that were strange looking back....

When I was a kid, I was terrified of monsters but only at night.

My room was upstairs next to the bathroom and when I had to go to the bathroom alone at night, I would lie in case the monsters could hear me


I would say things like "Oh I am soooooo glad the police officers who are visiting my house gave me this LASER GUN in case any stupid monster wanted to hurt me."

or talk about non existent family reunions taking place....

anyone here lie to something that didn't exist?

or do anything super strange that you can remember as a child?

(if you can, post a picture from the timeline of the story)

Growing up I looked under my bed a few times too so I understand what you're saying. The world can be a scary place at times especially for a very young person.

Super cute story, McGee.

And now I'm disappointed to learn that apparently, Mr. McGee does NOT have a lazer gun. Such a shame. I was going to ask to borrow it to use on my neighbors... er... zombies. Yes, I meant, zombies.

Funny how monsters only come out in the dark, and every kid knows it.

Shoot, I'm technically not a kid, and I STILL know that. Back in college, "The Blair Witch Project" was the talk of the town, and I am so hypersensitive to the entire horror genre that just hearing all the other kids talk about it made me have to sleep with a night light for a week.

Back when I was little(r), I had this idea that monsters couldn't get me as long as I had the covers wrapped as tightly around me as possible. I guess it was from that old notion that a monster would grab you by the toes and pull you under the bed. And so, I started wrapping myself up like a mummy every night, with only my head sticking out (for some reason, I thought my head was untouchable.)

The funny thing is, I still sleep like that to this very day. My Mom taught me how to make beds with carefully tucked-in corners and folded sheets and blankets. Pfft!!!! I never have any of my covers tucked in, and I still sleep with all the covers pulled free, albeit, I don't wrap myself up quite as tightly anymore. But I still probably look like a mummy, and even when I was married, I had my own set of covers to wrap myself in just before I fell asleep.

As for the retro pic...



This is a good example of how backwards my thinking is.

It's the middle of winter... So why in the world am I carrying a sprinkling can??? Maybe I thought I could DROWN all the monsters out...

And now you can see why I'm so disappointed that McGee doesn't have a lazer gun for me to borrow.

Great story!!

I read this last sentence as, "So obviously, you were getting ready to move to ANOTHER planet soon."

Yes, this would explain A LOT... about me, AND "Little Kimmie" as well.

I used to think that if I looked at people in their cars when they were driving they would shoot me....I almost always went super low in the car seat so people in other cars wouldn't see me....

I've always been a paranoid person

Aw, Stephen...

You keep taking breaks from the "Not By Works" thread in order to sneak into Singles and flirt with me!

Wow, I feel special.

True story about Little Lynnie in her very special LaLaLand.

Mom and her two younger brothers all got married within a couple of years of each other. And back then it was common for married couples to have a child a year, so there were nine of us cousins all roughly the same age, (give or take a year.) And we all had swim lessons together at a pool my grandparents had membership with.

That translates to nine kids between five to eight all needing a ride home together, and one parent got that job every day of the week.

My aunt had it on this particular day. I have no idea what I did to deserve her lecture, (I probably couldn't tell you even on that day lol), but she spent ten of the 15 minutes driving us home lecturing me on how I should act my age. (At the oldest I could have been, I was six. Does anyone have any idea how a six year old acts her age? I still don't know.) And then the last five minutes the entire car (with nine kids eight and under, mind you), was dead silence.

But in that dead silence, I was thinking important stuff -- Barbie dolls. Practically speaking, how does Barbie climb stairs? Her ankles don't move at all. The bending-knee Barbie had just come out, but most Barbie dolls back then didn't bend their knees at all. So how do they climb stairs?

When we got back to our grandparent's house, all the kids ran out of the car, up the two steps into the porch and zipped right into the house. I was the slowest to get out of the car. (Deep in thought and all.) So, I tried climbing those two steps without bending my legs.

Aunt yells at me about acting my age.

What did I do? (I really had forgotten her previous lecture, until then.)


Oh, if you want to know, it's hard but Barbie can get up steps.

This was too cute and funny. I can't remember anything worth sharing when I was a kid -_-

First time seeing Stephen in a non-BDF forum.

Here's to commitment....lol