Story archives - June 2006

Quilty

After getting punched in the nose I acquired the power to sneeze at will.

tags: ouch punched nose superpowers [add]

2006-06-30 17:11:54 / Rating: 202.5 /

COD

I went all the way to New York City, and all I got was a stupid pencil.

tags: humor travel [add]

2006-06-29 20:56:52 / Rating: 120.5 /

Cat

My parents told me chainlink fencing grew on mountainsides, and I believed them because I saw it growing on the roadside, and because it kind of made sense.

tags: childhood myths [add]

2006-06-29 17:09:00 / Rating: 171.25 /

Brooke

At the tender age of 5 I got my hand stuck in a candy vending machine at the local supermarket in a vain attempt to get a gumball without paying.

tags: oops childhood crime [add]

2006-06-28 13:10:24 / Rating: 176.75 /

aharris

One time I tore a dollar in half to buy a 50 cent popsicle.

tags: childhood humor popsicle [add]

2006-06-28 13:04:45 / Rating: 196 /

Ryan

I wore plaid pants to school once in second grade and totally shouldn't have.

tags: humor clothes childhood school embarrassing [add]

2006-06-28 12:41:06 / Rating: 162.5 /

Paul

I once believed that not only color television, but color itself, was invented in the late 1950s.

tags: color childhood memories tv [add]

2006-06-28 08:27:53 / Rating: 210.5 /

Ryan

I had a crush on Katie, my "dream girl", but she thought I was gross.

tags: crush childhood love unrequited [add]

2006-06-27 20:05:53 / Rating: 162.25 /

Lori Orson

One Saturday morning when I was three I decided I wanted Jiffy-Pop, but I couldn't read so I didn't take the paper top off and almost set the kitchen on fire while my siblings watched cartoons and my parents slept in.

tags: childhood popcorn fire [add]

2006-06-27 17:39:54 / Rating: 148.75 /

Angela

When my daughter was a baby I changed her dirty diaper in the car and then went into a home improvement store and while I was standing at the cutomer service desk I looked down I had a little ball of poop stuck on the front of my jeans.

tags: parent baby diaper poop [add]

2006-06-27 17:39:34 / Rating: 146 /

ryder

when I was five I wanted to climb the wall like Spider-Man, but gashed my big toe on a screw in the wall and bled alot, thinking "I bet this never happened to Spidey."

tags: ouch childhood superhero [add]

2006-06-27 17:39:05 / Rating: 150 /

stephen

this one time at my best mates wedding i got drunk and broke lex's butt.

tags: wedding drunk butt [add]

2006-06-27 17:38:38 / Rating: 111 /

Patrick

I didn't wimp out on a pact that Matt and I made to jump off a bridge the night before our high school graduation, and I survived a 35 foot jump into three feet of water with no scratches and one seriously sore coccyx.

tags: ouch jumping teen high school coccyx water [add]

2006-06-27 17:37:58 / Rating: 148.5 /

Mike

I passed out while peeing in the dorm room bathroom, and woke up later with my head under a stall door, still unzipped with no idea how long I was there.

tags: bathroom unconscious college dorm [add]

2006-06-27 17:36:14 / Rating: 177 /

Mike

I broke my shoulder in kindergarten because my friend convinced me that the lawn chairs 4 feet down from the tree house would be ample cushion for me land on.

tags: ouch jumping childhood [add]

2006-06-27 17:35:14 / Rating: 171.25 /

Melissa Lyttle

life was so much simpler when i could go peeling through the neighborhood on my bmx bike, topless, with all the boys and not feel an ounce of embarassment, then puberty came and messed everything up.

tags: topless bicycling puberty embarassing childhood teen [add]

2006-06-27 17:34:32 / Rating: 518.75 /

Rob C.

One time my older brother put his coat in the oven to try to dry it off, but it kinda caught on fire.

tags: oops fire brother [add]

2006-06-27 17:32:03 / Rating: 199.5 /

vix

One time, when I was four, I stood between the electronic doors at the supermarket waving goodbye to all the departing shoppers when suddenly one of the doors closed on my wrist.

tags: ouch childhood supermarket [add]

2006-06-27 17:31:27 / Rating: 137.5 /

Alex

One summer vacation, I walked down the pier at Lake Geneva and accidentally fell into the water.

tags: oops humor vacation childhood [add]

2006-06-27 17:30:42 / Rating: 134.75 /

corey

when i was 14 i totalled the family riding mower.

tags: oops teen power equipment [add]

2006-06-27 16:22:56 / Rating: 143 /