Weird stuff you did as a child

Has anyone ever put soap in the microwave?

I emptied an entire thing of bubble bath into a blow-jet tub once.

It made a pillar of bubbles and I made a castle out of it.

NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old!

I used to keep my feet warm by heating up a hot plate and putting it under my feet. One time, the bottom of the hot plate started to erode, I put it in the microwave, and made the microwave spark up good.

Still better than my then-pastor's Japanese exchange student, who put an Arby's sandwich in the microwave STILL IN THE TINFOIL.

I remembered one I did recently.

When I was real little, I had a book and audio tape game of Sesame Street. When I got to the part with Sherlock Hemlock, I intentionally got it wrong because it was funny to hear him get increasingly frustrated until he said the correct answer.

I like to keep my audience riveted.

So the audio tape recognized what you said?

I used to throw away book jackets.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

No; you had to press the correct button on the tape player to get the answer.

I like to keep my audience riveted.

I once tried to get my sister to RP a pokemon battle with me via chat. She was very confused as to why I was acting "strangely."

"Rarity, are you okay? We gotta get you and your friends outta here soon!"

How did that work exactly? I was under the impression that tape players weren't exactly technologically advanced enough for that kind of stuff.

Insert witty 'n clever quip here.

While on the subject of tape players, when I was very little, I discovered that holding down the "Pause" button on a radio's cassette player tended make the tape, for some reason, speed up and give everyone talking Chipmunk Voices. I thought this was hilarious, and sometimes, I would spend hours sitting beside the radio just listening to music and audio dramas at high speed.

These good times were not to last, however. Sometime after I started doing this, the radio's cassette player began to act funny. Sometimes they would play slower than usual, or play at high speed without input. Sometimes the tape would start flying out of the cassette. The last straw was when I put in one of my favorite tapes...and it suddenly began to sound very garbled. I took the cassette out to find that the tape had snapped in half. It was then that I realized that the days of making people and singers have Chipmunk Voices were over.

"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."

I did that with a Disney tape I had once. I accidentally made it speak fast forward. ^_^;;

I like to keep my audience riveted.

That reminds me of when I had a tape recorder as a kid and used to make recordings starring my stuffed animals. I made up different voices for each one and everything.

Maybe I should've become a voice actress.

Stupid doomed timeline...

One time I sewed my mouth shut.

(Agender. They/Them pronouns.)

That must have hurt. Did you have to go to emergency?

edited 14th Mar '15 5:20:43 PM by phantom1

No. I only sewed it through my lips, so they healed quickly.

(Agender. They/Them pronouns.)

Why would you do that?

I like to keep my audience riveted.

Curiosity.

(Agender. They/Them pronouns.)

But...how did you keep going? It must've hurt like hell!

Everybody's all "Jerry's old and feeble" till they see him run down a skyscraper and hijack a helicopter mid-flight.

I begged my parents to buy me the female version of the potty training video they showed me because I thought it would be ANOTHER TOTALLY RAD ADVENTURE™ and I knew nothing about biological differences.

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

I would secretly raid my mother's stash of R or X rated movies.

Creator of the Avatar Arena and its Discord server.

When I first started doing school, I would often get upset when the answer to a question wasn't the one I wanted it to be. (I.E. "What weighs more? Kay or this walrus?" "Oh cool, she's waving at me, she's so nice!" *marks the circle under Kay*) I can remember one crazy incident in a phonics related problem:

The was a rhino and a giraffe, and, if I remember correctly, you needed to figure out which of them had written more of a certain kind of word, and whoever did would be declared the winner...or something. I loved giraffes back then (and I still do), so I did the problem hoping that the giraffe was the winner....and it turned out the rhino won. I was...not happy. I started screaming angrily, scribbled all over the offending rhino, and probably would have ripped up my phonics book if my mom hadn't stopped me.

It was because of me only ever choosing the answer I liked the best regardless of whether it was the right answer or not that I flunked the first couple of assessment tests that I took. (According to my mom, I was pretty much at rock bottom in every aspect when I took one in kindergarten.)

"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."

When I was in Grade 1 or Kindergarten my friends were teasing a couple of kids with "[boy's name] and [girl's name] sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g" and I didn't know how to spell that well yet and didn't have it memorized but I remembered it ended in 'g' so I said "A-b-c-d-e-f-g" instead.

This one time when I was a kid, after watching the banshee & siren episode of Extreme Ghostbusters (I think it was a Saturday since it was being shown in the morning), I immediately turned off the telly and had to go outside so I could keep the sweet siren song in my head instead of it being replaced by the Duck Tales theme song.

I like to keep my audience riveted.

When I was smaller I was watching a movie I pressed the A-B button (the one that makes the movie repeat a certain part you selected) and switched the audio to a different language. I also remember making a Spongebob/Ed Edd n Eddy crossover comic where Squidward went insane for some reason and ended with him sticking his head in the ground and saying "Me, ostrich!"

edited 22nd Mar '15 8:56:14 AM by AnimeBadger

Do you still have that comic?

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

I don't think so.