Weird stuff you did as a child

I might've been timing my jumps to make sure I didn't get hit — so at least I kind of thought it through. I'm also pretty sure the recess monitors stepped in before I could have the chance to get my ass kicked into oblivion.

A similar thing I did at recess when I was a kid was climbing up slides and/or sliding down head-first (the latter I did because I was acting like a penguin, since I was obsessed with penguins as a kid). Again, I don't think I ever got injured, but I was scolded for it... and yet I kept doing it anyway for whatever reason.

For some reason, I always liked the sensation of chewing on the control sticks of my PlayStation 2 controllers.

Edited by RWBYraikou888 on Apr 11th 2024 at 10:26:31 AM

I used to watch this cartoon called Chilly Beach which aired weekday afternoons on CBC after The Simpsons.

For some odd reason I would look away from the screen during the part in the intro with Jacques holding a plate of poutine.

I ate a bunch of post-it notes one day. No, I didn't have pica or anything. I was just on total autopilot while playing computer games

Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 13th 2024 at 1:55:36 PM

A few months ago while my family was cleaning out our basement, I found a collection of stories I wrote when I was a kid. It was about a group of characters that were inspired by some of my stuffed animals (whether they were Living Toys or just standard anthropomorphic animals was unclear), and they were going on a boat through the ocean.

Highlights included:

• It opened with a Content Warning that there was an "enimy boat" [sic], and therefore, the book is only suitable for ages 3+ (Apparently, I thought villains were considered a mature topic. To be fair, it is fairly common for works aimed at very young children to have No Antagonist.)
• On one page, I drew a rainbow in the background, but didn't have a yellow marker... so I just wrote the word "yellow" in that part of the rainbow instead. This was also on the same page that marked a chapter called "Problems"... unintentionally making it look as though the chapter was called "Problems Yellow".
• Much of it was a Random Events Plot consisting of drawings, with very occasional writing. I'm not entirely sure what was going on.
• At one point, a flamingo "tragicly died" [sic]. The next chapter was about him coming Back from the Dead.
• It just stopped at some point, presumably because I forgot about it.

Yeah, that was a testament to my childhood Ping Pong Naïveté.

When I had the "do it yourself book" of Diary of a Wimpy Kid as a kid, the comics I made were nonsensical:

• One of them I just drew a bunch of cats.
• One of the "Creighton the Cretin" comics didn't even have a punchline; it was just a weird conversation. I think I wrote it because I remembered when I was much younger, we lived in a different place that had ducks nearby and Dad kept telling me "Don't scare the ducks" so even after I'd moved out of there, I considered scaring the ducks to be a big no-no:
  Random Boy: "I like birds."
  Creighton: "I like birds too."
  Random Boy: "Wow!"
  Creighton: "You scared the ducks!"
• One of them involved a bully saying to another kid, "Look at your weird lunch!" (which, looking back, isn't much of an insult), then, when cornered by the teacher, trying to defend himself by saying, "It was his lunch!".
• The "Ugly Eugene" comic went like this:
  Eugene: "AHH! Three eyes!"
  Three-eyed boy: "I do have three eyes. My name is Dan."
  Other Boy: "And my name's Tom."
  Eugene: "What!?
  Tom: "Tom!"