My friend an I use to watch “The Flash” t.v. series an wanted to be just like him. Part of the show was he (the flash) had a high metabolism and he had to eat large amounts so he wouldn’t “slow down/get weak” My friend and I would spend the afternoons after school running when ever/where ever we could.My friend really followed the doctrine of eating alot, but he slacked off on the running an gained alot over the summer.He gaines like 20lbs that summer before we headed back to school.
And for some odd reason I swore my uncle was Satan Incarnate becuas he was always red/flushed.Turned out he was just an alchy that stayed w/ a red drunken glow in the face.
My Mummsy told me that when I was very young probably around age three. That she would take me to the store with her and every elderly lady I ran into was greeted by me with “Hi old grandma lady”.
I took it that all old lady’s were grandma’s which they probably were. I guess I wasn’t that wrong.
When my cousins and I were young we liked to play with matches, fire works, and bb guns.
We used to shoot each other with the BB guns. That was fun until I got hit in the eye.
I once found a gallon of gas and I tried to kill some ants, only problem was that I dropped the gallon on the fire. The flames shoy up about twenty feet, and was about four feet in width. I tried to put out the fire and eventually did. But for three weeks it smelled like gas outside. My mom always asked “why does it smell like gasoline?”
We would also put hair spray on various part of our body and lite it on fire. Our hands were the best part. It caused a curiously warm feeling. I’m suprised we never got seriously injured.
We would also lite fireworks and through them at each other. Once having a Black Cat landing in my hair. I had a bald spot for three weeks.
once when i was 5 my mom had just picked me up from day care and had half of her personal-size pan pizza left…i was hungry so i started downing it and about half way through realized she had crushed red peppers all over it and started to cry
use to think that if you swam long enough you would turn into a fish
and same as almost all -8 year olds i always though my new nikes would make me jump higher/run faster
[quote]getgot211 wrote:
and same as almost all -8 year olds i always though my new nikes would make me jump higher/run faster[/quote]
Some of these posts make me feel old as hell. When I was a kid, you had better have some ADIDAS on your feet, or at least some Kangaroos with the pocket on the side. Nikes?
When I was 4 my mom was complaining to a very large, very tall black construction worker family friend that I would only eat peas. He decides he might be able to help out. I remember to this day this huge man bending allllll the way down looking me in the eyes with his stealy brown eyes and saying “If you don’t eat your vegetables you can’t grow up big and strong like me.”
My eyes turned into saucers and I proceeded to start screaming and crying. As my mom was consoling me you can only imagine her horror as I screamed “I don’t want to be black!!!”
Other stupid stunts- Letting my dad’s doberman out so I could chase it on my bike. Using my dad’s tools, didn’t matter how much he punished me I couldn’t keep my hands off the Snap-Ons. Thinking fish hooks would make cool earrings, no my ears weren’t pierced at the time. Hiding so well while playing hide and seek I didn’t hear Oly-oxen free (whatever), then falling asleep, very cold doesn’t come close.
I too participated in much of what’s already been listed. And the following:
Thinking if I climb fast enough I could propel myself over the barbed wire on top, that left a mark. Shooting ice cubes with a BB gun at point blank range, that stung. Freezing water balloons thinking they would behave as snowballs, that left many bruises. If I blow air out such that it makes my cheeks puff when running (like I saw some sprinter doing on TV) I will be able to run forever.
Fortunately or not the majority of my truly stupid stunts were pulled after the age of 16 and have to do with incredible lack of brain use and alcohol.
Confusing cocaine with propane- so in my mind all those people who had propane tanks (really in order to survive cold winters) were bad people
trying to blow up my family’s deck with lemons and matches- dug under the deck, had lemons, and asked the babysitter for matches- she caught on
Jumping to the floor in the super market when i thought my mom was mad at me. My famous quote was- “don’t hit me- again.” my mom never ever hit me and was mortified.
More Recently:
Freshman year kegger- freshman year of highschool- i helped get the keg- i ended up paying the price. We went down in a blaze of youthful intoxicated glory
Sophomore year trip to Montreal with the high school marching band- we had been there the year before so knew that at night there was really nothing to do… except go to strip clubs. Unfortunately at the age of 16 you cannot go into a strip club even in Canada…or you shouldn’t be able to. I made fake ID’s for 6 of my friends. We all got busted, but hey- who can pass up lap dances and beer?
Me and my brother took croquet mallets and smashed all the screen windows in the guesthouse in our backyard. Man my dad was ticked. I have no idea why we did this.
[quote]ailax12 wrote:
5. Sophomore year trip to Montreal with the high school marching band- we had been there the year before so knew that at night there was really nothing to do… except go to strip clubs. Unfortunately at the age of 16 you cannot go into a strip club even in Canada…or you shouldn’t be able to. I made fake ID’s for 6 of my friends. We all got busted, but hey- who can pass up lap dances and beer?[/quote]
LOL and they think everyone in marching band are geeks. We started competeing so we could do more drunken road trips when I was in band.
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
shorty_blitz wrote:
Yea and also I used to tell other kids “My shoes are faster than yours” and yea I really did beleive that it was the shoes that made you run fast!
In the mid 60’s they called those shoe (red ball jets)
The shoes that would make you run faster and jump higher [/quote]
No way. PF Flyers could make you run faster, jump higher, and clear puddles in a single bound.