Odd/funny stuff you did as a kid

[Baddamobs]

Just a small "for the lolz" kind of thread (and to hopefully lighten up the thread list a little bit):

Recount, if it pleases you, odd or strange things you did as a kid. I'll start with an example:

I used to play the same first 1/2 hours of games over and over again when I was but a tyke. No, I don't mean just once or twice: I mean I would playing something that needed a lot of time (like FF7, OR FF8, OR FF9...look, I played a lot of Final Fantasy, alright?) again and again from the beginning.

I think it was due to my brother and I (twins) sort of being... not the brightest bulbs in the box as kids. We didn't know there was a mystical 'save button,' and would have looked at you blankly if you told us otherwise. We seemed to think that we could logically complete a game in under an hour or two, and were confused that our older brother was some how always further ahead than when we last saw him.

The weirdest part was, that we never got board of it: we were still in the age where we could only vaguely read, so every time we played through it, we perfected our own little interpretations of the story based on the events, and how long people talked for. And since the concepts of 'strategy' or 'playing the game' properly never crossed our minds, the beginning bosses were always decently difficult. Thinking about it, it's more of a fond childhood memory, then an embarrassing one.

Spiel aside, anyone have any funny/odd stuff you used to do as a kid?
Just to clear up, it doesn't have to be related to gaming. That was just something that had popped into my head earlier today.

Happy posting y'all d ^_^ b

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Oh my god, lol

When i was little i saw this kind of grey or black thing infront of me sometimes, it made me feel like i was shrinking and growing
I used to stack matchsticks into tall towers... same with drink cans, i actually have one in my kitchen now
Me and my friend used to walk the same trail in the school forest and say ''what would you do if a dinosaur foot came down right now between us'' a weirdly large number of times
We used to carry the biggest rocks we could find up on the river bridge and throw them in

All i can think of directly, surely i did a lot of queer things as a child

Jumping story made me think of how i would run downhill when i was bored as fast as humanly possible, jumping several meters with each step

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I stabbed by best friend in the ear with a paint brush, for no real reason :/

For the record I'm filing that one as "odd".

 

[MysticSlayer]

I used to eat string. It wasn't just a one time thing. For some reason, as a kid (i.e. about 3-4), I became semi-addicted to eating a little bit of string every day. Thank God I at least had the common sense even at that age to stop doing it when I realized how it could potentially choke me.

I was also a sore loser, but for some reason, I always wanted to play the games that frustrated me the most. I think I was just a masochist as a child. It also wasn't uncommon for me to do something that would knock me out for a few seconds, such as getting hit in the head by a basketball, and then get right back to doing what I was doing because, as far as I was concerned, nothing was wrong with me.

I would also watch Wheel of Fortune to the point that it annoyed my parents. Apparently I was loved the spinning wheel and flashing lights.

 

[Barbas]

(Snip).

I used to love grassy hills when I was a kid. I'd throw myself down them for no reason at all. Can't do it any more, though; too much deer drumpings. :c

There was just something about the dazed, exhausted but strangely happy feeling you got when you finally rolled to a halt at the bottom...

 

[PsychicTaco115]

Whenever I was playing a game, I would always end up jumping up and down in my ADHD-fueled excitement

I guess that's one benefit of console gaming, can't exactly do that on PC

 

[Erttheking]

I used to count off colored floor tiles or the number of times I chewed my tongue to one side and then another of my mouth to multiples of five. No idea why...come to think of it I still do that sometimes.

 

[das_n00b]

Let's see.... I used to skateboard (I get that it's not necessarily all that weird, but I recently watched an interview of a pro skateboarder admitting he had a lot of "rituals" the same way someone with OCD would [that's not to demean or make slight of a serious anxiety disorder, but a lot of things made sense once I watched that interview] and realized that maybe I was a little 'off'.

also:

I used to trace drawings and sell them at school for food (no sob story here, there was enough money for food at home, I was just a greedy, hungry little fucker), built what I have endearingly dubbed "hobbyist explosives", and had a rather serious facial tic. Completely managed to suppress most of my ticks before I even got to middle school, like a champ.

 

[UmberHulk]

I put m&m's up my nose and said "something smells chocolaty. I also put rice seeds in my ear because I thought I could grow a tree out of my ear.

I used to eat string. It wasn't just a one time thing. For some reason, as a kid (i.e. about 3-4), I became semi-addicted to eating a little bit of string every day. Thank God I at least had the common sense even at that age to stop doing it when I realized how it could potentially choke me.

wow I used to do that to I would eat the loose strings on my sweater until my parents found out and that's why I only where short sleeved shirts now.

 

[Story]

I used to eat snow as a child, you know, like off the ground. I stopped when I saw a spider frozen it.
I would occasionally walk on the front ends of my feet to feel taller.
Oh and I had this weird fear of balloons.

 

[Euryalus]

Whenever I was playing a game, I would always end up jumping up and down in my ADHD-fueled excitement

I guess that's one benefit of console gaming, can't exactly do that on PC

Ditto to that. I was hyper beyond belief as a kid.

OT: This obviously wasn't a recurring thing, but I set a freezer on fire accidentally... I'll just leave that there and let you guys wonder.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

When I was younger, prior to Jackass being a thing on TV, or even much of a concept, my friends and I used to do a lot of things that were very close to the whole premise of Jackass. If only we'd taped some of the crap we did...
Example:
Jumping off rooftops into bougainvillea trees... back up to explain a bit why this is absolutely stupid

Spoiler: This is the tree

Spoiler: This is what the branches look like

Those thorns alone can grow up to an inch in length or more depending on the age of the tree and they hurt like a ************. I jumped into one once and had to break off the branch I landed back-first on because it was stuck into my back. Then I walked about 2 miles with a branch stuck to my back, in a lot of pain (the thorns had nearly hit my spinal cord) to my house. I went into the garage with one of my friends, got a pair of vice grips and a broomhandle to bite down on and had my friend rip the branch out. Wave of agony, nausea and black out later (I've a high threshold of pain but damn that hurt) and I had 5 holes in my back, two of which were either side of my spine about a quarter inch or less away from my vertebrae. Lucky me I didn't pierce the cord or sever a particularly necessary nerve.

Yeah stupid, funny... but stupid. Did other dumb things too, but that even stands out because of how much pain it caused and ever since then I've been wary of those trees.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Beginning of junior high I bleached my hair yellow because I thought I'd look cool blonde... it didn't turn out well for my social life for awhile a very long time.
I also found a baby bird who probably fell out of the nest and took at home with me. Cute right?... well... I kinda didn't tell my mom and left it in a box because at that time I was a kid... I didn't think things would.... you know... die. I have yet to tell my mom about that bird even to this day... poor birdie I'm sorry I TRIED!!! FORGIVE ME!

Being a kid is not as fun as people say it is. Since you're kind of f**king stupid. XD

 

[SoranMBane]

I used to eat paper a lot when I was little, sometimes even from copies of paperback books that I happened to own (I always avoided eating the actual words, but still). The books that got the worst of it would probably be the three Redwall books I bought from a book catalog back in elementary school, from which significant strips are missing from the outer edges of their covers and pages (I still have those three books; they're all perfectly readable despite their laughably ragged condition). I guess the lavish food descriptions just made me so hungry that I had to devour the first thing I could get my hands on.

Also, you know that old cliche of little boys picking up bugs and chasing screaming girls around the playground with them? Well, the boys in my elementary school didn't really do that, so I had to pick up the slack. You see, I was never really afraid of bugs (I used to be creeped out by spiders and centipedes, but that's it), so whenever I'd find a suitably large creepy-crawly out at recess, I'd be sure to use it to extract some cruel fun out of my more squeamish female peers. I'm not sure which part of the whole thing little-me found more amusing; the actual grossed-out shrieks of the other girls, or the ironic gender subversion of a girl chasing other girls with bugs.

And then there's the "toys" I used to play with when I was little. Aside from fairly mundane stuff like plushies and Digimon action figures, I also enjoyed such other child-friendly and ladylike items as knives, hatchets, big ass staves made from tree saplings, machetes, bows and arrows, and BB guns. The kicker? My mom bought me most of that stuff. My mom was awesome.

 

[Pikey Mikey]

I would constantly make the same characters in Baldur's Gate, clear the Nashkel Mines, not know what I was supposed to do after killing Mulahey (I'm Swedish so as a five-six-year-old my English was nooot really the best (although I could quote the first bit of the intro and the whole cutscene where Gorion dies at the start (mimicking the sounds))) and then it would loop back 'round and I'd make a new character. (Which would take between 10-40 minutes each time because the 18/?? score is random each time so you'd have to reroll luckily enough to get 18/00 AND enough to fill Dex and Con)

(Either Fighter, Ranger or Paladin (liked paladin's because they could heal) with 18/00 Str, 18 Dex and 18 Con (and most often (exception being paladins because of their insane stat-requirements) 3 Int, 3 Wis and 3 Cha =P)

I'd putting that in BOTH the weird and fun thing-category. Because I think it is a very weird thing for a young kid to do, but I did have a lot of fun with that game. (It, along with my brother who helped me and instructed me with what to do, basically taught me English)

And for that, I will always love RPGs as my go-to genre. =)
(But since then I've evolved. Now, I play Baldur's Gate 2! (those games are so AMAZINGLY GOOD (capital-letters are mandatory)))

 

[Someone Depressing]

My sister had a fight with me, and the five year old me put her underwear in the microwave and started a house fire.

Oh, wait, that's not funny, it's fucking creepy.

...I used to eat coffee granules and ketchup.

Childhood isn't as good as people make it out to be. Nostalgia goggles should not effect what is basically the steepest, least forgiving learning curve in all of existence, and yet people make it out like peeing yourself on buses, running around naked, and eating coffee granules and ketchup at four in the morning is "fun".

 

[1Life0Continues]

I was (and sometimes still am) a very heavy sleeper. It interfered with a lot of things to the point where I had to be medicated to interrupt the depth of my sleep.

I say this because I had (and sometimes still do have according to the people I've slept with) a nasty habit of sleeping with my eyes open. My mother often had to roust me out of bed just to check I was still alive (at least that's what she told me, my guess is that it was more to get me to close my damned eyes because it creeped her out).

It tends to creep people out so much that I generally have to warn partners that it happens. It's pretty rare nowadays (thanks to that medication and it's permanent effect) but when it does, it can be really creepy.