Disappointing Childhood Realizations

[senocular]

Something that happened to me today that I recal being a real big upset when I was a kid:


- M&M's DO melt in your hand!

[zylum]

and they're not supposed to?

[RenaissanceGirl]

Your M&Ms are broken. Mine never melt in my hand.

[senocular]

They melt in your mouth, not in your hand! :P


Heres another

- Large foam airplanes cannot fly straight through front doors.

That was a horror when I got the jumbo plane, built it in the living room and ran outside to test it never thinking to tilt the plane at all when going through the door. Plop - both wings clipped off and one sad sad little boy (but none the less wiser)

[zylum]

aren't they covered in sugar and filled with chocolate? how are they not supposed to melt? :-\

[reverendflash]

warm hands = cold heart

:beam:

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[senocular]

its a hard candy shell :) ... but I guess when it comes down to it, its mostly sugar :P

[zylum]

Originally posted by senocular
They melt in your mouth, not in your hand! :P


Heres another

- Large foam airplanes cannot fly straight through front doors.

That was a horror when I got the jumbo plane, built it in the living room and ran outside to test it never thinking to tilt the plane at all when going through the door. Plop - both wings clipped off and one sad sad little boy (but none the less wiser)

i build remote control planes out of balse wood. i have one with a 1.5 hp japanese imoprt engine.:!: they're fun to fly:love:

[senocular]

ok heres another

- Garbage bags make for poor parachutes.

Just when you thought jumping off your roof was safe... it isnt :(

[thoriphes]

Santa Claus....

Tooth Fairy.....

my dreams, fantasies, shattered with the bittered truth.

[Coppertop]

here is a sick yet funny game you can play with words.

1. get a company catch phrase/slogan (example: vanilla coke - reward your curiosity)

2. add "in my pants" at the end of it.

I get a kick out of this, i don't know why.
some of the best are:

M&M's - Melts in your mouth, not in your hands
Vanilla Coke - Reward your curiosity
KFC - finger lickin' good

god, I should know more.....

[kirupa]

Wow Phil - for me it has always been the other way around. The world is full of truth and light, but IT IS A CHOICE. You can choose to revel in the dark, or you can open your eyes to the good things in the world. All you have to do is make a choice. Follow the light. (runs to Phil-adelphia, IL and gets a flashlight and points it at Phil's retina). In the end, it all did work for the better.

:phil: <-- how can anybody or object not resist this. I bet it is magnetic....like a magnetic you can stick on your fridge and put little grades and pictures under it to show all the grandparents that the kid can draw a straight line without having the line turn into a squiggly disaster zone.

[Coppertop]

they can if they are up against this:
http://www.sighost.us/members/Coppertop/pixelyphil.gif

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Your all wrong. The world is made of cheese and I am the one to rule it all. but you don't know it yet.

[Digitalosophy]

when i was four i put my mother tweezers in a socket, and flew arcoss the room, lol , i swear. maybe that's why i'm burnt?

[thoriphes]

Let's see...childhood....

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1) Stuck a paperclip in a socket, all I could remember was that I didn't want to do it again.

2) Got addicted to sticking 9-volt batteries on my tongue.

3) When I was real young (3) I used my chair to reach something high up on my shelf (I remember it was a ruler) and then fell as my chair collapsed, then gashed a good part of my head on my metal bedframe...real bloody day...I only realized less than a year ago that my head has this dent in it where I gashed my head in.

4) When I got Walkie Talkies for my 7th birthday, I enjoyed holding them near my water pipes so I can hear various conversations over CBs and Spanish radio.

5) I built my own radio at 9 with one of those Do-It-Yourself things

6) I made a paper airplane that stayed in the air for a good minute.

7) At 6, my best friend showed me her peepee (privates) on the bus (ah, those childhood memories that just stick)

8) I almost got kidnapped on my own birthday party at this pizza place (I laugh now, but i was completely freaked out for the next couple years after it happened)

9) I stuck a rusty nail under my neighbor's car tire (quite interesting seeing him try to take it out after driving over it)

10) I made cool mixes and run-on songs with my dad's old tape deck (and managed to screw that up in the process).

11) Discovered MP3s when I was 12 (Audiograbber, Fraunhoen, or something, 56K, 22050Hz, 3mb audio file as opposed to 30mb WAV files. ah.....)

12) That one day in the library when I went searching for help in Flash 5, finding three forums, one of which was http://pub4.ezboard.com/~kirupa, signing up for it, posting for a couple days, growing a hatred for this "dan4885" :beam:....that day over 2 years ago....

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Memories will never die.

[prstudio]

oh the foam planes....wow i had forgotten about those, balsa wood gliders too!

nice memories ya'll

[comicGeek]

AHHHH the confusing names! :d:

[comicGeek]

I once had a crush on my mother, and had an unhealty attraction to her panties. My name is Sigmond. Others know me as Phread.
EW! Phil.....er......Sigmond ...er...Racer-X you're sick! :P

[RussianBeer]

My childhood desapointment was:

Fiding out that even though I am super strong, I can fly and I can shoot laser beams out of my eyes, I dont posses a spandex suit to be a super hero. :(

[Kitiara]

Hmmm...

When I was about 6 I laid on the dining room table and pretended to be asleep so that a handsome prince would come and kiss me to wake me up and marry me.

No seriously. I actually did that. :blush:

And now I come to think of it, I'm still bloody well waiting. :sure:

[asphaltcowboy]

It's most displeasing when you find out that sticking fingers in both your ears does not make you invisible.

[rvanet]

Well.. when I was 10... my science teacher shouted at me in front of my classmates saying.. "RENANTE TALKATIVE!!!!"

:P

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by rvanet
Well.. when I was 10... my science teacher shouted at me in front of my classmates saying.. "RENANTE TALKATIVE!!!!"

:P i don't get it :-\

[senocular]

Originally posted by asphaltcowboy
It's most displeasing when you find out that sticking fingers in both your ears does not make you invisible.

That only works when no ones looking ;)

[ribcage]

In 3rd grade , after waiting what seemed like a lifetime for a mail order delivery of
An amazing Sea-Monkeys kit, and discovering that they were not monkeys at all.
As a matter of fact they didn't even look like the cartoon on the box.
You needed a magnifying glass to see these little white specs fluttering about and after a month they were just shrimp.
after 3 months they were just shrimp corpses in muck thick with algae.

[senocular]

Originally posted by ribcage
In 3rd grade , after waiting what seemed like a lifetime for a mail order delivery of
An amazing Sea-Monkeys kit, and discovering that they were not monkeys at all.
As a matter of fact they didn't even look like the cartoon on the box.
You needed a magnifying glass to see these little white specs fluttering about and after a month they were just shrimp.
after 3 months they were just shrimp corpses in muck thick with algae.

ah yes, Ive had similar sea-monkey distress. Mine didnt make it a month though heh:)

[ribcage]

By the way Sen,

I had the exact experience with my foam plane. thats when i started making all my own planes from whatever i could find around the house. So much fun.
No playstation, just tape & scissors and glue.

[ribcage]

how cool would it be to have a paper plane battle.?

[prstudio]

oooo that would rock...

anyone else notice the freud thing got posted like 15 * 10^12345 times?

[Kajinku]

I remember being disappointed 'cause I couldn't marry my mum. :sure:

What was I thinking?! :P

(I was very little then)

EDIT:
Oh, and also that the Transformers plane (or something) couldn't fly for real like in the commercial.

[Voetsjoeba]

I remember that I was dissapointed when my mum bought the wrong superhero suit :P

[senocular]

Originally posted by Kajinku
EDIT:
Oh, and also that the Transformers plane (or something) couldn't fly for real like in the commercial.
oooh ooooh oooh! me too!!!! I thought it could fly and talk! ... but it did neither. Got me down for a day but I recovered quickly.

The happiest day in my life remains to be the day my dad got me the full optimus prime transformer for christmas. =)

[eilsoe]

Originally posted by senocular
ok heres another

- Garbage bags make for poor parachutes.

Just when you thought jumping off your roof was safe... it isnt :(



umbrellas are not safe either :sure: learned THAT one the hard way.. ouch...

[senocular]

yeah I remember the umbrellas were part of our preliminary testings when jumping off posts in the driveway, they kept reversing on us, even with those smaller jumps so they were deemed 'unsafe'. Looking back on it, it almost seems as if we were smart... suuuure, test it out first, we're no dummies... PFFFFT

:P

[eilsoe]

suure we were... ;)

[thoriphes]

Remember those Fisher-Price Rollerskates that really just made walking a tad more difficult? Those had brakes in front, which really wasn't good design (or I just used them incorrectly, somehow)

[reverendflash]

making the connection between soy sauce and the stuff that comes out of grasshoppers...

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[mjULTRA]

I was crushed the day that i found out that one of the ingredients to Stroganoff was Sour Cream. http://messenger.msn.com/Resource/emoticons/cry_smile.gif No Lie.

[asphaltcowboy]

It's most displeasing when you find out that shepard's pie doesn't actually contain shepards, "why not d*mnit?! I hate those guys!" :P

[nobody]

When I was but a wee tyke I fell off that cliff that everyone called "Stay away from the edge Cliff" for some reason. Well anywho, I was just strolling along, minding my own business when the ground dissapeared and I fell 423 feet to a pit of sharp rocks. Luckily I landed on a marshmallow. Man, that day was great.

[Coppertop]

Ok, so am not really all that old, but I do have memories.

like when I took the lead out of a mechanical pencil and shoved it in an electrical socket. (11)

and when I fell off of a metal swing set, only to have it come back and scrape the top of my head to the point of blood loss. It was funny though - because it didn't hurt, and my parents were panicing, trying to find the wound because my hair was almost the same colour. (7?)

and when my mum ran over my foot in her car. (12)

and when I slept so soundly that I managed to roll out of bed onto the floor, and then roll under my bed while staying asleep. It freaked my parents out because they couldn't find me. (6 - I think)

wow.

[senocular]

hehe I had something kind of similar happen to your 7 yr old experience

I remember one day I was playing outside doing something... Im thinking it involved a tricycle but I could be confusing that with another memory... anywho, the point is I realized that I could cry at the thought of pain and not from the feeling of pain. I had always thought that when I got hurt I cried because it, well, it hurt. This time around, I didnt know I was hurt until I went in the bathroom and looking in the mirror and saw the blood. In fact, seeing it didnt make me cry, I only cried after I touched the wound and looked at the blood in my hands. Then, all of a sudden, it 'hurt' and the wound was life threatening :beam:

[nobody]

Sen the exact thing happened to me when I was playing with my uncles work out stuff and the bar unlatched and fell on my head. It felt sort of wierd but I wasn't too phased. Then I touched my head and saw the blood and flipped out. That was fun.

[Coppertop]

interesting.

just to add to what I said, the wound healed up real quick, and turned out to be nothing more than a scratch. To find it, my dad had to hold a paper towel to the top of my head. Hahaha.

[Voetsjoeba]

Another one I learned by experience: you can't ride a bike of the stairs ... (at least not when you're four years old ;))

[senocular]

Originally posted by Voetsjoeba
Another one I learned by experience: you can't ride a bike of the stairs ... (at least not when you're four years old ;))

lol that was always a big fear for me, the whole bike + stairs combo. When I eventually did try it (I was much older mind you) I busted my arse pretty good ;)


Heres another one - a two parter, dealing with climbing trees.

1) Poison Ivy (or some variant) also comes in tree-climing vine form.

2) Locust Trees have thorns (ouch!)

[comicGeek]

Here's a recent one:

When communicating through AIM, it's always best to see who AIMed you before letting yourself go with whatever cursed reply because you'll never know that it's your boss! :P

[senocular]

Originally posted by comicGeek
Here's a recent one:

When communicating through AIM, it's always best to see who AIMed you before letting yourself go with whatever cursed reply because you'll never know that it's your boss! :P

lol I did that with someones mom. That was a mess :P

[comicGeek]

LOL. After that incident I was like washing my face with my own sweat! :P

[thoriphes]

Originally posted by senocular
lol I did that with someones mom. That was a mess :P I had something similar happen to me once. This girl thought I was this other person (apparently, wrong s/n. How does someone get a wrong s/n? I mean, I can understand a wrong phone number, but s/n? anywho...) named "Max" who is apparently her boyfriend....

[eilsoe]

I bet you hit on her... huh? HUH? :P

[nobody]

yeah the aim thing sucks. I call all my friends sexy or studly and what not and I ended up calling my friends mom sexy. That was interesting.

[Coppertop]

Hahaha. Once on MSN, my friend signed on, and I said "ello", well, little did I know, one of his other friends always starts with that, so he starts talking to me, and I think he is crazy, until I say something and he goes "wait, who is this?" I laughed so hard.

[rere420]

I found out rather recently and Fester was there laughing his arse off...that when you are fishing you don't actually have to stand in complete silence. I was always told by my whole family that fish were afraid of human voices and I wouldn't catch a fish if I talked...

Turns out my family just wanted me to shut the hell up. :trout:

[senocular]

oh man, that reminds me of a doozy. My parents used to make me fish with a rock as bait. I was smart enough to know fish dont eat rocks but they gave me some smart arse excuse something along the lines of "why do you think they call them rock fish?"
:P