Weird Stuff You did as a Kid

[Georgia Avenue]

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I also used to sleep completely covered by blankets with just a tiny hole to look out of, no matter how hot it was.

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I did that last part. But it was because I was afraid of ET and Gremlins. I didnt even have a hole to look out of. I'd be covered in sweat when I woke up sometimes.

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Wow...its like an OOt-epidemic...I did this too. I got the idea from some Bill Cosby record that if I didn't do it the monsters would get me. But I also had to sleep on my back in case a scorpion tried to sting me on the ass (got this idea from some awful kids book). This continued until I was 12, though... [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Wait you were afraid of ET? You're freaking nuts, dude.

[His Boy Elroy]

In 6th grade I wrote stories for my English class about this one kid in the class. I called him Deadly Dan, and in each story he would kill other kids in the class in crazy, violent ways. I read them aloud in front of the class sometimes and everybody loved them.

I also used to notes and fold them up in that way that you fold nots in middle school (you know what I'm talking about) and them leave them right on top of the trash can so someone would take them and read them and start a controversy. I remember one specifically had a drawing of a stick figure in the middle of crosshairs. An arrow pointing to the stick figure said "Alan" (a kid in class), and an arrow pointing to the crosshairs said "my gun's sight". Another one had a creepy poem where I talked about killing myself. Neither of them was serious, I was just hoping someone would find them and there would be a big fuss all over the school trying to figure out who wrote them.

Weird.

[miajag]

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards of a week without doing so.

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ha me too. i was like this up until about the third grade i think. good times, good times. i also thought there was no way i'd make it to 18.

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Weren't you people in pain? It must a) hurt to not poop for so long and b) be even more painful when you finally do have to poop that rockhard gigantor [censored] out.

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Yeah, it was basically a vicious cycle of putting it off for a week and then finally crapping out this monster rock-hard turd when it got too painful. My parents thought something was wrong with me so were constantly making me drink prune juice and take constipation medicine but the reality was i just didn't want to go. I did this till like middle school btw. By that point I wasn't "afraid" of it per se, it was just a habit.

[KilgoreTrout]

A neighbor-kid, now a top executive with a large broadcasting company, used to like to be "nature boy," using various spots in the neighborhood as his personal latrine. He was a couple years older than us but we still would throw snowballs, acorns, pebbles, etc. at him whenever we caught him dropping deuce in someone's yard. The kid kept this up until we were in middle school. By then we had graduated to BB guns and pellet guns.

So if you're on Newbury St. in Boston and you see some dude hop out of his Benz in a $5000 suit and then drop trow in public, that's the guy. Crazy mfer... now a crazy rich mfer.

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The Bill Cosby thing reminds me of something else, on one of the few episodes I saw (my parents generally didn't allow me to watch shows with black people in them) Bill was talking about grounding one of his kids. I had never been grounded and didn't know what it was, so somehow I got the idea in my head that the kid was actually being ground up, like in a meat grinder. That alone made me a really good kid for like 3 years because I was so terrified of getting "grounded."

[george w]

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i was a total hypochondriac.



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me too. i had various forms of imagined cancer growing up. actually i'm still a nut job about this kinda stuff.

[george w]

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards of a week without doing so.

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ha me too. i was like this up until about the third grade i think. good times, good times. i also thought there was no way i'd make it to 18.

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Weren't you people in pain? It must a) hurt to not poop for so long and b) be even more painful when you finally do have to poop that rockhard gigantor [censored] out.

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yeah it was pretty painful. on the bright side i have a really high tolerance for pain and discomfort now.

[Sephus]

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards 2 weeks without doing so.

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[skunkworks]

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The Bill Cosby thing reminds me of something else, on one of the few episodes I saw (my parents generally didn't allow me to watch shows with black people in them) Bill was talking about grounding one of his kids. I had never been grounded and didn't know what it was, so somehow I got the idea in my head that the kid was actually being ground up, like in a meat grinder. That alone made me a really good kid for like 3 years because I was so terrified of getting "grounded."

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This story is hilarious but this made me totally sad. WTF?

[JuntMonkey]

OP's thing is fantastic. I do that now once in a while to a lesser extent. Get in the bath (not filled up all the way) and turn the shower on. It's like you're in a tropical paradise. The lighting should also be carefully planned.