Remember Something Fun You Did As A Kid

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What a waste! You could have used that gold nugget for blackmail.

That is not true is it? If it is, then wow. You were / are a genius I guess.

As a kid, I always slept with the window open when it was hot out because we didn't have any air conditioning. The noises we had were fairly predictable:
1) Irrigation engines -- they just drone on and on and on and on
2) Frogs in the pond croaking nearly nonstop
3) Crickets
4) The occasional truck driving by on the highway half a mile away
5) Occasional noises from the oil and gas plant about seven miles away
6) Coyotes
7) Occasional livestock noise from the cattle and horses
Peacocks -- we had about 25 to 30 and they roosted on the water tank and the windmill about 50 feet from my bedroom window.
9) Crop dusters spraying a nearby field at dawn on an occasional morning.

Not all that predictable to those of us who lived elsewhere, thanks for this, you created a really good and concrete image of where you lived and used the sense of hearing rather than sight to do it (you'll prob think I'm patronising you over something you wrote off the top of your head but seriously, this is good scene setting)

My specialist interest when I was 6-8 was Peter Pan. But I hated the green Peter Pan. I called him that. It seems unpc now but I called my favourite Peter Pan brown Peter Pan. He was white but he wore brown. In my mind, green Peter Pan was too girly. (For a lot of my personality, you need to forget my sex)

This is my one:


(only watch full thing if you're really into it, I still like kids' shows so no shame if you are or if it's your childhood too)

He had proper adventures and stuff

I also liked pretending to be Peter Pan, mum pretended there was a statue of Peter Pan in my local park nowadays (there isn't it's a Greek god. Yeah we ended up living on the street near where I played as a kid even though it's in a different city to where we did before) and I climbed up a red climbing frame there as she told me not to My stepdad was so proud of me when I reached the top but mum was over protective.

And I read the novel (I had an adult reading age by 9, it was a bit lower than that at that age but I could make my way through Peter Pan) and I had a treasure hunt on my birthday where I found a Disney art picture of Peter Pan flying over London. Actually my cousin found it but I got it given to me anyway as it was a present.

Mum always made sure I got a present to do with my specialist interest as a kid. Sometimes it was really obscure (even Sesame Street was obscure? I was ahead of my time cos I wanted toys of the muppets) so she made it.

Did/does anyone else like Peter Pan of any sort? I think I read it further up.

I remember making mud "pancakes" by the creek at my parents' with my brother and/or sister sometimes. I would gather the mud then put it on one of the three logs that lay from one bank to the other.

I learned about chiggers.

telling jokes and riddles until everyone was bored stiff and then tell them some more

reading winnetou under the desk in class, or billy turf






in english that's billy bunter

@TUF, I never read or saw Peter Pan (or Alice in Wonderland, for that matter). I don't remember them being popular or available when I was younger. I'll check them out if I get a chance. I do remember liking the Peter Pan rides at Disney World and Disneyland quite a bit, though.

My childhood memory today is when we used to go to my Uncle Frank's summer house which was on a lake. To be honest, I hated a lot of my experiences at the time because I didn't like the change in routine of going to someone else's house and following the family's expectations. I was quite sullen when we visited. But, looking back, I can see the fun times. My uncle had a speed boat and he would pull all the kids around the lake, holding onto a large, plastic table-top like a water sled. There were up to six or eight kids there at once, but only one of them was another girl. The girl and I would get into all sorts of mischief. In the winter I wore a purple snow suit and we would slide down a big hill out onto the frozen lake, unsupervised, even in the dark. My how times have changed. Parents would likely be too overprotective for that, now.

I saw both in the early 60s, but never again. I also saw the Wizard of Oz in the early 60s and then not again until the 1980s.

One problem I had with movies when real young was that I generally just remembered one or two scenes and nothing about the plot. From Peter Pan, I remember that there were pirates and I seem to remember something about a shark. From Alice in Wonderland, which I saw at my grandparent's house, I just remember the white rabbit.

Same. That was life before VCRs and DVDs. If you didn't catch something on TV, you didn't see it. I always had to go to bed and I missed things like The Sound of Music, or the ending of The Wizard of Oz. They were past my bedtime.

I don't remember much about films or books either. Just a scene here or there if it's significant.

How about Peter and the Wolf?

I actually love Peter and the Wolf, but I didn't know it until I was about 30. I love the music and was a little obsessed with Prokofiev for some time. Then I saw the cartoon and a live action film.

I made wings out of paper with individual feathers and a paper belt with tail feathers on it. I put these on, went outside to the top of a hill with an almost
vertical-like cliff cut into it (The cliff was mostly red clay mixed with dirt I guess), and I ran down part way to jump at that point and see if I could fly or at least glide down. Needless to say, I didn't fly.

I copied different poems i liked or quotes onto colourful origami paper

Then i folded it with my sister (bcuz she is more skilled at it i recruited her)
into cranes n origami flowers

N we left them all over Paris n Istanbul when we travelled (we were ona family holiday) in case someone found them n read it
It was fun n silly

Did u get hurt or were u ok?

That's kind of like what Eddie Rickenbacker did as a kid. If I remember correctly, he fashioned some kind of wings on a bicycle and rode it down the barn roof.

It didn't work for him, either.