Strawberry Fields
When I was four years old, I ate chap stick that smelled like strawberries even though I knew it was wrong.
2010-03-19 09:52:39 / Rating: 2.5 / 
Story archives - tag: "childhood"
ursula's blues
The night before my dad died, I rolled my eyes and gave an exasperated sigh when he asked me to go to the kitchen and get him a glass of water, but I can't remember if I told him that I loved him.
2010-03-16 12:54:27 / Rating: 42 /
Rae
When I was 3, my cousin convinced me that avocado was really moldy butter and 15 years later, I still can't eat it.
2010-03-02 13:13:26 / Rating: 126 /
WFZeman
Two days later, I went back to the high school I'd sworn to leave forever.
2010-02-25 08:07:38 / Rating: 86.25 /
sister
My brother and I talk about everything, except the time our father spent in a mental hospital.
2010-02-16 13:28:31 / Rating: 80 /
Naked Cookie Monster
I just wanted a cookie from the top shelf that morning in 1979, but ended up with a dislocated knee, a broken arm and a rusty nail through my penis.
2010-02-09 12:23:55 / Rating: 269.25 /
David
My ex-wife would freeze up every time she told the story of coming home from church as a child and finding all the dolls she had left lined up in tiny chairs replaced by the dead squirrels that her father had killed that morning.
2010-02-05 10:20:12 / Rating: 168.5 /
Seizure Salad
No one, not my mom or the doctor right in front of me, realized I was having a seizure.
2010-01-19 15:35:09 / Rating: 64.5 /
just a kid
As the weight of size 13 white velcro sneaker came down on my eight-year-old frame, I made a mental note to never again fake-kick anyone while wearing clogs.
2010-01-19 15:33:08 / Rating: 49.75 /
cetacean
I knew my brother was going to be a good acrobat when, at five years old, he tripped over a rock mid run and did a 360 degree flip into a nearby fish pond.
2010-01-07 16:04:56 / Rating: 139.25 /
Madeline
I'd broken it, and after hastily putting it back together I waited until the cat brushed by so I could watch it fall again.
2009-12-07 16:47:01 / Rating: 99.5 /
Miss Delaney
In the middle of my fifth winter, I slipped and fell and cracked my head open on a set of cement stairs because I thought the paint on the railings was wet.
2009-12-04 08:58:15 / Rating: 91.25 /
Bill Coffin
Just as I was about to tell my eight-year-old daughter the truth about Santa Claus, she said she was going to ask him to end the war in Iraq.
2009-11-25 08:53:38 / Rating: 525.5 /
deprived
As a child, my parents convinced me that when the ice cream truck played its song, it meant the ice cream was finished.
2009-11-06 14:25:40 / Rating: 228.5 /
S
My mother stopped buying me Barbies when I was a child after she found them hanging by their necks from the stairwell.
2009-10-26 13:10:46 / Rating: 132.25 /
Freak
My grandmother never asked me to go back to Sunday School after I was told to color a picture of Jesus, while going through a 'draw handlebar moustaches and pitchforks on everything' phase.
2009-10-23 12:36:19 / Rating: 267.25 /
Azkescapee
After playing dollhouse with my goldfish for the fourth time, my mother finally decided to buy me a hamster.
2009-10-19 14:49:04 / Rating: 101 /
stephanie
I was eight years old and he said I was beautiful.
2009-10-12 11:58:51 / Rating: 135.75 /
Elayne
I remember fighting with my sisters over who would make what breakfast item, when my mother finally had it and yelled "You make the grits and I'll cut the cheese!"
2009-10-06 20:34:33 / Rating: 105.75 /
I'm sorry
The only thing that I can remember about it is the strange looking chair that I had to sit in, and how you never hugged me after that.
2009-10-05 14:55:53 / Rating: 114.75 /
cg
On my very first camping trip, I learned that if I drop a dead caterpillar in my mom's coffee, she will not only not get mad at me, but she will also still drink the coffee.
2009-09-21 11:54:58 / Rating: 176.5 /
Joanne's sister
It took several visits to the cemetery before I realized that when my father started digging around my sister's headstone, he was going to put stones under it to keep it from sinking and wasn't going to dig her up.
2009-09-08 11:27:52 / Rating: 148 /
gross
My sister caught me eating the callus I'd peeled off the bottom of my foot, and that was the end of that habit.
2009-09-02 08:38:12 / Rating: 153.5 /
Biff
I was shocked to discover that my fondest childhood memory was actually a scene from an old movie.
2009-08-20 10:15:59 / Rating: 417.5 /
M
I asked my mother why she'd stopped keeping a journal after I was born and she said, "I was finally happy."
2009-08-20 10:12:45 / Rating: 636.25 /
trisha
While out to lunch with a roommate I hadn't seen in 27 years, she mentioned between bites of her chicken salad sandwich that her first memory at age 3 was watching her mother try to commit suicide by setting herself on fire.
2009-08-20 10:09:14 / Rating: 189.25 /
child
I kept screaming, thinking I'd gone blind, until my mom rushed into my room and told me to open my eyes.
2009-08-20 10:00:21 / Rating: 160.25 /
exaltation of larks
I will always blame my inability to fall asleep and the subsequent years of depression on you letting me fall out of a two story window when I was a toddler.
2009-08-18 09:50:12 / Rating: 93.5 /
Madds
Thinking that a wedgie was a kind of cookie, I eagerly accepted one.
2009-08-12 10:31:40 / Rating: 258 /
drummergrrrl
I was relieved when my middle-school friend revealed to me that, unlike what my mother had told me, hot dogs were not the penises of pigs.
2009-07-13 16:06:57 / Rating: 202.5 /
drummergrrrl
After my mom dropped a frozen corndog down the back of my sweatpants, I stopped talking back.
2009-07-10 11:12:50 / Rating: 115 /
It was perfectly in character for me as a child, when I maintained to my first grade teacher that my favorite animal was not a giraffe or tiger, but grass.
2009-07-07 10:29:40 / Rating: 307.75 /
Gemini
There is no cool way to puke.
2009-06-22 15:27:22 / Rating: 230 /
KC
A couple of times down the hot metal slide and no one would know that I had wet my pants.
2009-06-19 16:30:10 / Rating: 379.75 /
Confiture
I'm told the scar isn't noticeable, but I still hate that four-year-old girl I used to be for not putting her feet down.
2009-06-19 16:26:51 / Rating: 106.25 /
Kurt
My sister was obsessed with Ricky Martin until she had a dream that he stabbed and killed me.
2009-06-16 09:26:10 / Rating: 200.5 /
Tay-Tay
My mom frantically searched for me around the house to finally find me finishing off a big stick of butter.
2009-06-14 17:35:02 / Rating: 112 /
Alex
After our older son declared his desire to be a veterinarian, the seven-year-old said, "I want to be a Chinese man."
2009-06-10 10:59:45 / Rating: 513.25 /
a beautiful disaster
Sledding was great until the tree got in my way.
2009-06-08 11:43:09 / Rating: 153 /
Uncle Jesse
I tried karate at age 7 and quit after realizing it conflicted with watching new episodes of "Full House."
2009-06-05 10:38:07 / Rating: 236 /
Jason
May my dearest sister rot in hell for what she did to a 3-year-old boy.
2009-06-02 13:11:34 / Rating: 307 /
s. c. amory
I realized that I was placating my drunken mother the same way I used pacify to my drunken college friends.
2009-06-02 08:29:47 / Rating: 136 /
Gerrie
While walking down a street in New Orleans with his wife and two young daughters, my father was approached by a prostitute.
2009-05-28 15:02:14 / Rating: 178.25 /
Aimee
Soon my monthly therapy sessions were replaced with monthly orthodontist visits.
2009-05-21 15:45:45 / Rating: 137.75 /
Tmyakal
The fire we started in that corn field was terrible for more reasons than just its failure to produce popcorn.
2009-05-20 14:51:13 / Rating: 476 /
Clearly dumb AND poor
I thought it a bit odd, but truly believed my mom when she told me that Santa billed parents for all of the toys he left us.
2009-05-20 14:12:33 / Rating: 237 /
vermilion
The most prominent memory I have of my grandmother is the night she tried to kill me.
2009-05-08 12:46:51 / Rating: 296.5 /
lauren
At the age of 12 after a night of particularly heavy discipline, I screamed at my mother that I had called the cops and she told me she might have breast cancer.
2009-05-08 08:03:06 / Rating: 196.25 /
Crystal Young
It was when I saw her feet dangling by the bedside wastebasket that I realized she hadn't been kidnapped, but that I had mistakenly pushed her off the bed in my sleep.
2009-04-03 13:43:19 / Rating: 166.5 /
godfather
I am very happy that I was asked to be my girlfriend's sister's stepdaughter's stepsister's godfather.
2009-04-01 11:21:41 / Rating: 205.25 /
wonderingmom
I wonder if my now 22-year-old daughter remembers, at age 4, that the first thing she said to me after I told her that Daddy had died was, "Can I have a glass of water?*
2009-04-01 11:21:18 / Rating: 222.25 /
Tori
When I was six years old, I cried when my family told me we couldn't go see the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park because they were all already dead.
2009-03-27 12:58:28 / Rating: 199.25 /
One summer
He bounced off three branches before hitting the ground, but when he got up the first thing he said was, "Don't tell Mom!"
2009-03-27 12:40:39 / Rating: 315.5 /
Devon
I have a twisted family that made me believe that chocolate milk came from brown cows until I was 14.
2009-03-25 11:29:36 / Rating: 469.25 /
Shimmer
Before I hit puberty, my whole body could fit through a coat hanger, but I still thought I was fat.
2009-03-25 11:23:23 / Rating: 154.75 /
SanDiegoGal
My dad showed up drunk to my senior prom just to say hello.
2009-03-13 15:44:05 / Rating: 438.75 /
Katie L
He draws me pictures on my toaster strudels just like my mom used to do.
2009-03-11 14:56:14 / Rating: 382.75 /
Bored of Boredom
Nothing is more embarassing than having to tell the doctors that the stab to my eye that was causing me to get the stitches in my eyelid was all because my sister was trying to write 'loser' on my forehead.
2009-03-10 11:14:57 / Rating: 204.25 /
hanlet
I fed her the last meal she would eat.
2009-03-06 10:55:47 / Rating: 147.5 /
James
When I was 14 I saw a gang of younger kids killing a wild rodent, so I went behind the apartment building and cried.
2009-03-05 11:40:23 / Rating: 248 /
annoyed
I think what bothers me the most is that my mother pretends not to understand why I will never leave my children alone at their house.
2009-02-12 12:32:54 / Rating: 431.5 /
Nicole
At the age of five, I had an obsession with licking my mothers deodorant.
2009-02-06 14:14:52 / Rating: 215.75 /
Brett Keoki Patton
I believe it was unfair of my parents to put so much pressure on me as a child to make a choice as to what percent of milk I preferred.
2009-02-02 10:38:54 / Rating: 290.25 /
lost a tooth
That night I fell out of bed and smacked my nose on the metal bedframe, and the next morning my dad joked that the toothfairy pushed me.
2009-01-28 16:28:05 / Rating: 261.5 /
When my six-year-old brother puked squash all over our dining room table, Mom decided she did not wield the power to make us eat anything.
2009-01-26 09:48:11 / Rating: 240.5 /
Djagurl
I hated my mom for selling our house, a little because I grew up there, but mostly because all of my pets were buried there, and the new people wouldn't care.
2009-01-26 09:34:40 / Rating: 302.25 /
Gullible
When I was little, my older brother had me convinced that the members of Hootie and the Blowfish were named Hootie, And, The, and Blowfish.
2009-01-26 09:34:19 / Rating: 237 /
Golf Widow
I watched a hideously cheesy episode of Lawrence Welk on PBS last night and loved every minute of it because it made me miss my grandfather a little less.
2009-01-26 09:31:36 / Rating: 215 /
Dearie Me
When he was a little kid, my now-gay brother asked my mom when he would turn into a girl.
2009-01-23 11:45:22 / Rating: 418.5 /
Libra
When I was eleven years old, the closet attacked me.
2009-01-22 12:29:05 / Rating: 197 /
Rachel
There was a night early in my childhood when I was certain my mother was going to commit suicide.
2009-01-07 12:44:53 / Rating: 177.25 /
jfirth
My grandpa choked up as he said, "House plants grow better when the house is filled with love, and I've never seen the house plants grow as well as they have since you moved in a year ago."
2009-01-05 08:44:29 / Rating: 773.75 /
Jenna Bean
When I was 10-years-old, I gave my mom a note that said, "You are a bich!" and she laughed and showed me my mistake.
2009-01-05 08:43:59 / Rating: 643.25 /
Bored of Boredom
After that dream, I never saw Ronald McDonald the same again.
2008-12-31 12:40:04 / Rating: 217 /
When I picked up my black grandfather from a white woman's house running down the fire escape holding his pants up, I realized I had an interesting childhood.
2008-12-09 09:59:05 / Rating: 361.5 /
Tunafish
When I was a little girl, I used to feel bad for the sock I didn't put on first, so I would tell it nice things and switch whether I put on my right sock or my left sock on daily.
2008-12-03 15:07:40 / Rating: 779.25 /
MarissaCondit
The day my Mother accidentally left my little brother at the dog pound gave me the only self-esteem boost I would ever need.
2008-11-18 13:14:45 / Rating: 398.5 /
Hex G
I was bitter that it was my favourite cup that broke when he threw it at my mum.
2008-11-03 17:35:24 / Rating: 194.5 /
CO
As the actor dressed in the Minnie costume stepped on my sandaled four-year old foot after I asked for an autograph I never received, I realized that Disneyland was not "The Happiest Place on Earth" after all.
2008-10-30 22:13:53 / Rating: 228.25 /
Rai
One of my most vivid memories as a child was kicking my brothers privates, not because I was mad at him, but because I was curious if the men in the movies really felt the pain.
2008-10-30 17:17:58 / Rating: 276.75 /
Cole
When I was three, I thought my mom's hot curling iron was a popsicle.
2008-10-28 12:12:48 / Rating: 260 /
fancy spatula
I've slept with a fan on every night for the past 13 years, 7 months, and 14 days.
2008-10-27 15:32:21 / Rating: 236 /
Pristyn
As a child, I used to put every single one of my teddy bears around me on my bed before going to sleep thinking that I would be safe from the monsters that way.
2008-10-27 12:30:16 / Rating: 286.75 /
Anonymous
I'd secretly made the ramp higher than agreed, and as I watched my brother's bicycle land on top of him, I realized with growing panic that he was definitely going to tell on me.
2008-10-24 14:28:01 / Rating: 343.25 /
TwinMom
I never thought I could become immune to watching my boys drink water out of the dog's bowl.
2008-10-24 13:19:14 / Rating: 247 /
elle
My little brother thinks that he is a super hero because he is convinced he can poop the alphabet.
2008-10-15 15:15:19 / Rating: 423 /
Eva
When I asked my son how hitting his brother in the eye could be "an accident," he replied, "I was trying to hit him in the nose."
2008-10-10 16:00:34 / Rating: 782 /
Heather Rose
As I woke up from my nap to find written on my feet "This is my momma and you can't have her," I realized that my child is very, very strange.
2008-09-26 17:46:59 / Rating: 2168.75 /
kane
I'm the little girl who grew up to be a man.
2008-09-26 16:22:58 / Rating: 349 /
laura
I can't tell what's worse: the death of the boy who pulled down his underwear in front of me in the first grade or feeling terrible every time I tell people about the first time I ever saw a penis.
2008-09-21 14:24:23 / Rating: 292.75 /
Matt
There is a gerbil buried in a backyard somewhere in a purple Pog case shaped like a coffin.
2008-09-15 11:48:33 / Rating: 259.5 /
bmo
My dad slammed the balsa-wood battleship he spent 1000 hours building against the wall when he had found we kids ruined it by floating it in the rain water.
2008-09-12 14:29:49 / Rating: 240 /
aunt d
When my 8-year-old niece came home from her friend's birthday party and assured me that she did not drink any beer, I knew something was very wrong with our culture.
2008-09-11 20:04:35 / Rating: 572.25 /
Lyv
It always brings a smile to my face when my dad tells large groups of strangers how he once cut himself on Jello.
2008-09-11 20:02:30 / Rating: 505 /
kari
I never really believed my mom's stories of how abusive her childhood was until two days ago when my grandmother pulled me aside and quietly informed me that she wished she had never ever adopted that nasty little irish girl.
2008-09-11 20:01:57 / Rating: 443.75 /
ER
The wanting to kill myself first began when I was told there was a heaven and that my older brother was there.
2008-09-04 13:48:51 / Rating: 396 /
Daddy
After finding out her grandfather was in the army, my daughter asked "Was he with the green guys or the tan guys?"
2008-08-27 14:57:30 / Rating: 257.75 /
Jennifer
My childhood and my dog share a grave in my backyard.
2008-08-26 10:22:06 / Rating: 605.75 /
A.D.
When I was little I thought the "f" word was "fart" because I wasn't allowed to say it.
2008-08-26 10:15:54 / Rating: 252 /
ticosmom
Imagine my surprise when my kindergarten deskmate tapped my on the shoulder only to vomit his afternoon milk and snack all over me.
2008-08-19 14:25:19 / Rating: 254.75 /
Just Us
As I lay on the ground clutching my ankle, I wished my favorite super hero had not been one with the power of flight.
2008-08-13 15:19:12 / Rating: 279.25 /
fellahz
As soon as I heard that the guy who sexually molested me as a child had been put in jail after 8 years, I felt as if a ton of bricks had been lifted off my heart.
2008-08-12 15:02:19 / Rating: 264.75 /
Tom
I had to go to the hospital in the 7th grade after I fell off my bike because the sombrero I was wearing to block the sun blew off and I instinctively reached back to grab it and lost balance.
2008-08-11 15:42:34 / Rating: 235.75 /
Nikhil Charan
On my thirteenth birthday my parents gave me the best toys money could buy, and then in a moment of playful distraction they broke down and announced: "We are not your biological parents."
2008-08-04 17:17:38 / Rating: 324.75 /
I don't even know you but I will never forget you
Each time I buckle my young daughters life jacket, I can still see her mom, running, screaming across the sand as they try and revive her.
2008-07-30 14:39:31 / Rating: 329 /
MayraLuz
It happened in a closet.
2008-07-25 16:08:56 / Rating: 288.5 /
Matt
The day he beat me into unconsciousness was the day I learned to lie to my mom.
2008-07-25 11:07:38 / Rating: 357.5 /
Emera
A sleepover is a bad idea when your parents have really loud sex.
2008-07-22 12:22:13 / Rating: 598.75 /
Angela
I stole a ring from a souvenir shop because I didn't know what money was.
2008-07-21 16:11:37 / Rating: 225 /
Aub
I think my dad realized I would never take out the garbage again when the trash bag he told me to pick up turned out to be a three-foot-long snake coiled up in a corner.
2008-07-21 15:36:15 / Rating: 306.5 /
Dicky
The sadness and disappointment in my father's voice once I told him I killed the crab moved me to tears.
2008-07-18 01:28:34 / Rating: 262.5 /
zelmia
I was 7-years-old when I learned to ride a bike, all the while humiliated as my 5-year-old brother literally rode circles around me.
2008-07-14 09:12:27 / Rating: 174.75 /
deaconb
To my ten year old brain, wearing a homemade, dangling fork necklace was a great idea, until I knelt down and jabbed myself in the leg.
2008-07-10 15:33:52 / Rating: 279.5 /
Eddie
I still have the two huge dictionaries that my mother beat me with as a child.
2008-07-10 15:33:32 / Rating: 300.5 /
Beckii
My childhood finally made sense when I saw a cross dresser walk down the street and realized that that was my dad.
2008-07-10 15:32:07 / Rating: 601.25 /
smella
By the age of eight I had decided that my worst fear in life would be to ever get haemorrhoids, and I even spelt it right as I wrote it on my grade 3 paper.
2008-07-08 09:53:46 / Rating: 251.25 /
KC
I was so disappointed when I learned Santa was Mom and Dad, but I am so excited now that Santa is me.
2008-07-07 13:59:19 / Rating: 653.75 /
btd
I giggled at my high school graduation when I realized the boy I was walking beside to our seats was the same boy that held my hand at the roller rink in second grade.
2008-06-25 20:42:33 / Rating: 391.25 /
CaRD
In fifth grade, a classmate asked me to pull down my pants and when I did, he just pointed, laughed, and walked away.
2008-06-16 16:05:50 / Rating: 249.75 /
Aspergers Girl
Everything became clearer as I looked through old school projects and saw I listed the school librarian under the category of "best friend."
2008-06-10 10:40:37 / Rating: 380.75 /
Not Your Personal Assistant
I was only five and he was seven, but we were responsible.
2008-06-09 12:21:37 / Rating: 218.75 /
Anagram
It was only appropriate that the one day that I, the most gullible student in the fourth grade at the time, did not believe a ridiculous story that someone told me was that day in September when the world changed forever.
2008-06-02 13:36:25 / Rating: 289.75 /
Clsfd Kidd
I lit the gasoline-soaked, freshly-cut branches with a lighter that was about five feet too short.
2008-06-02 13:33:55 / Rating: 249 /
Dfong
As the vomit crawled up my throat I suddenly realized I was holding the barf bag upside down.
2008-05-30 10:06:48 / Rating: 307.25 /
Less one friend
I hadn't seen her in twelve years, but my heart still broke when I saw her picture on CNN with "Missing" underneath it.
2008-05-28 15:57:35 / Rating: 360.25 /
James Danger
If my exasperated mother hadn't set me straight, I'd probably still think that cold turkey helped people quit smoking.
2008-05-28 15:57:15 / Rating: 368.5 /
Maggie
I used to want to be a writer when I grew up, until I learned the word "poverty."
2008-05-28 15:56:22 / Rating: 285.75 /
Elizabeth The Great
When I was four, I ran my dads car into a brick wall in a supermarket parking lot.
2008-05-20 10:25:10 / Rating: 254.75 /
Rudy
Yesterday my five year old told me that he found out at school that Heaven is full of dead people.
2008-05-13 12:03:10 / Rating: 414.75 /
Barb
On Mother's Day, I remember when my mother told me that if she had known about abortion in 1946 I wouldn't be here.
2008-05-13 10:27:34 / Rating: 383.25 /
Mike Drucker
Because he slept on the top bunk, my brother always called me "the monster under the bed."
2008-05-07 13:51:39 / Rating: 400.75 /
mbirdie
I think the imaginary friend I had when I was in elementary school wanted to spend more time with me then my boyfriend does.
2008-05-05 10:10:30 / Rating: 295.5 /
Kindergarden attempts
At six-years-old my friends passed around a discarded, lit cigarette smoking it perfectly while I couldn't take a drag properly no matter how hard I tried.
2008-05-01 14:28:28 / Rating: 285.25 /
Poppy
Yesterday my four-year-old married his "girlfriend" and they shared a fruit muffin as their wedding cake.
2008-05-01 14:27:14 / Rating: 669 /
m
My mother forgot to wash the pans between courses, resulting in cherry pie that tasted vaguely of fish, but it was still the best birthday ever.
2008-04-29 12:11:37 / Rating: 327.25 /
not so scared anymore
I haven't seen my abusive brother since I was 10 and he just found me on myspace.
2008-04-28 10:51:33 / Rating: 327.5 /
jazmen8
Now that I am raising my own children, it is even harder to understand my father's decision to opt out.
2008-04-22 12:09:39 / Rating: 245.5 /
No credit, please
The support of the third grade class was striking, as the second grade's "Tinkerbell" died in silence.
2008-04-15 10:16:44 / Rating: 222.75 /
Gou Tongzhi
Being mocked incessantly, every day, by your peers from the age of seven or so to the age of sixteen, changes you into the kind of person who can't muster up the courage to call a girl who might be willing to go out with you.
2008-04-10 15:40:52 / Rating: 298.25 /
AM
The first day I walked into six grade was the last day I was optimistic.
2008-04-08 16:54:25 / Rating: 327.5 /
Angie
My sheltered, religious friend was crushed when she discovered that her family's "Christmas smell" -- the special aroma that she had only ever smelled on Christmas morning -- was, in fact, pot.
2008-04-07 14:23:05 / Rating: 693 /
Betsy Friday Prouty
The elephant that lived in my parent's living room has moved to my house.
2008-04-04 14:27:01 / Rating: 321 /
roadtripryan
As I rummaged through the cereal box sleepy eyed this morning, a bit of sadness came over me when I remembered adult cereals don't contain prizes.
2008-04-02 15:22:52 / Rating: 500.75 /
Jessica
I was six when I woke up next to my grandma to find that she had died in her sleep.
2008-04-02 13:50:04 / Rating: 368.75 /
Poppy
As he watched them make his hamburger from the counter, my four year old announced loudly that he was no longer interested in being an astronaut when he grew up but would prefer to have a job at McDonalds.
2008-04-01 12:10:56 / Rating: 486.75 /
lonita
I stole a pack of gum from a grocery store when I was eight, but felt so guilty about it that I left the pack on the windowsill outside.
2008-03-30 08:48:12 / Rating: 287.5 /
Cade
When I was six I realized it was impossible to reach the mountains while riding my bike.
2008-03-21 17:06:01 / Rating: 216.5 /
Ashley
When I was seven I made my dad a Father's Day card that said, "Dad, thanks for always taking me to the beer store."
2008-03-20 16:08:29 / Rating: 446.75 /
Angie
I found my notebook from second grade, and when I read my words, "It was a good thing when Abraham Lincoln invented Thanksgiving," I realized that second graders are genius... pure genius!
2008-03-19 09:47:45 / Rating: 247.25 /
Dekay
Being a kindergartner feeling as if he didn't deserve to live should have been an early indication that there's something wrong with me.
2008-03-10 10:17:34 / Rating: 344 /
Definition
I don't know if it qualified as rape, but I know it was wrong.
2008-02-25 21:21:58 / Rating: 404.75 /
wanderlost
I knew my step-son had been overly sheltered when he told me a character from Guitar Hero III was the "black version of Jimi Hendrix."
2008-02-22 16:11:21 / Rating: 484 /
Naive
My father died when I was six and the day after, I wrote in my diary that I was feeling better.
2008-02-20 12:52:10 / Rating: 369 /
L.Mead
Everytime I tripped when I was younger I used to think my feet were plotting against me and my hands were my only true friends.
2008-02-13 13:18:41 / Rating: 639.75 /
Cam
As a kid dripping in mud, I couldn't see why bringing four frogs home in a zip lock bag was bad idea.
2008-02-11 16:54:22 / Rating: 297.75 /
kiley
You would think that the weirdest thing about my family is that my step grandma is younger then my mom, but in fact it the strange thing is that she is sleeping with my mom's brother.
2008-01-31 12:09:51 / Rating: 389.75 /
Babylon
My parents filed for divorce on my brother's birthday but waited to tell us until mine that next week.
2008-01-31 12:06:43 / Rating: 323.5 /
UnlikelyMom
Imagine my two girls as they opened up their exciting Christmas toy, squeezed goop into molds, put the mold into the oven, then waited, and waited, and waited, realizing that there was no heat, no light bulb, and would be no bug - just a bunch of disappointing goo.
2008-01-25 13:21:04 / Rating: 263 /
Times Change
As you trip me in the hallway I remember the summers of our childhood where we vowed to be best friends forever.
2008-01-23 11:59:37 / Rating: 403.25 /
No Secret
Our father's favourite game of deserting us in public places strengthened our sibling bond.
2008-01-08 10:16:35 / Rating: 513.25 /
Regretful Lack of Attention
My best friend hung himself on a Friday afternoon, and when I checked my cell phone the morning of his funeral I realized he had called me that day at 3:24PM.
2008-01-02 15:30:08 / Rating: 858.75 /
cetacean
The nine year old said he had moved on from his best friend, who was killed by a falling branch a year ago, but as he stared at the spot where he died, I knew he hadn't.
2007-12-19 11:11:39 / Rating: 406 /
Megan F.
I realized I was smarter than him when I was eight and learned what alcohol was.
2007-12-19 11:10:13 / Rating: 257.25 /
Spankella
At Grandma's house her powder and rouge were in a little drawer right in front of the toilet, so bathroom trips took at least 10 minutes and left me looking like Tammy Faye Bakker.
2007-12-13 13:11:57 / Rating: 404.25 /
Dormouse
My best friend was ecstatic to meet her mother, the woman that walked out on her as a child.
2007-12-13 13:11:31 / Rating: 266 /
Bendango
Thanks to my erasable Bic pen cap and hours spent lingering in after-school daycare all those years, generations of innocent, tenacious schoolmates never found Waldo.
2007-12-13 00:20:03 / Rating: 613.75 /
katlyn
We would spend hours "painting" her weathered, old fence with water, pretending that we were using the whitest paint around.
2007-12-11 11:31:55 / Rating: 304.25 /
Astral
I will never live in a world as bright and beautiful and alive as I did when I was six.
2007-12-03 15:15:43 / Rating: 471.5 /
wanawachee
After sixteen years, I believe I have finally fully paid my Karmic debt for pantsing Little-Dick-Don in front of our Boy Scout troop.
2007-11-30 13:38:39 / Rating: 285.5 /
Toto Too
At sixteen I was shocked to discover that Oz was a world of vivid color because every year I had watched 'The Wizard Of Oz' on the tiny black and white television which was the only television my impoverished household could afford.
2007-11-27 09:53:36 / Rating: 375.75 /
Brendan
As a child, I would lay my shirt on the bed with the front facing me and then lift the shirt over my head, inadvertently ensuring that I had it on backward every single day.
2007-11-26 12:37:21 / Rating: 314.5 /
Theresa
When I was a kid I thought vampire's teeth were like straws.
2007-11-24 18:28:55 / Rating: 381.25 /
Jackie A.
Her uncle promised she could have any one item in Salvation Army for her birthday, but when she pointed at the fur coat she'd been coveting for three years he decided she wasn't worth it and bought her a pair of stockings instead.
2007-11-24 18:27:27 / Rating: 271 /
Nicole
I knew I was pronouncing "island" (is-land) wrong when I discovered the word "isle" in third grade.
2007-11-14 10:54:09 / Rating: 322.75 /
girly
I ran down the middle of the icy street chasing the yellow bus from which 24 of my fellow grade 3 students and the driver had completly forgotten about me after ice skating.
2007-10-30 14:21:49 / Rating: 248.5 /
Four Years Older
The feelings of resentment started when my younger sister got her 10-speed bike at the same time that I did.
2007-10-30 14:15:59 / Rating: 321.75 /
Fabula
The real trouble began when he set me on the bicycle and said, "You're on a hill, you don't have to do anything."
2007-10-25 10:20:32 / Rating: 487.5 /
Dee
I lost my childhood the day I realized Happy Meals no longer filled me up.
2007-10-22 13:56:54 / Rating: 315.25 /
Kelly
I watched the old VHS tapes of him filming the ocean for most of the night with the sudden realization that he was filming the ocean because it was the last time he would ever see it again.
2007-10-18 14:02:09 / Rating: 372 /
eschatologies
My rapist went to jail and was released early for "good behavior.".
2007-10-10 13:34:25 / Rating: 490.25 /
Jesse
I sometimes wonder if tricycling head-first into a metal pole when I was three and not being able to remember it happening are connected.
2007-10-10 13:32:38 / Rating: 305.5 /
eschatologies
For my father, the disappointment of a son who didn't enjoy athletics was never ameliorated by a daughter ecstatic to fill that void.
2007-10-02 15:43:36 / Rating: 306 /
Cerise
Sometimes I wonder how the girl who tried stealing my Pokemon cards turned out.
2007-10-02 10:27:46 / Rating: 349.75 /
Almost an Adult
I've been counting down to my 18th birthday on a calendar with the heading "# of days of childhood left", but I'm too busy with college to build a fort or play freeze-tag.
2007-10-02 10:26:18 / Rating: 349 /
Juju
She was too drunk to notice how drunk I was.
2007-09-27 12:28:59 / Rating: 332 /
Rachel
Upon entering practice room 158 this morning to find a large penis scratched into the wood of the piano, I realized once again that college boys never do grow up.
2007-09-18 13:11:33 / Rating: 377.75 /
Juju
The cardboard paper camel I made my stepfather for his birthday is still hanging on the wall, left and abandoned, like us.
2007-09-10 12:10:19 / Rating: 319.5 /
A Passer By...
I see this boy walking to school every morning and sometimes I think he'll be the next high school shooter.
2007-09-10 12:07:50 / Rating: 271 /
The Cereal Sympathiser
As a child, I used to eat all my cereal in case I hurt the feelings of any pieces of left-behind cereal.
2007-09-07 22:45:38 / Rating: 558 /
Pheobus
Anyone else would have screamed too if a possum tried to climb up their shorts.
2007-09-07 22:42:53 / Rating: 321 /
andy
The last night of camp, when the counselor announced "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands," no one clapped, but one kid did flip him off.
2007-08-23 18:08:46 / Rating: 667 /
morgan
As a toddler, I went to Wal-Mart, saw my first black person, and promptly shouted that it was Lavar Burton from Reading Rainbow.
2007-08-23 18:03:52 / Rating: 389.75 /
Grammy
I told my three year old son that he was putting his shoes on the wrong feet and he responded that they were the only feet that he had.
2007-08-23 17:52:47 / Rating: 681.75 /
nickyskye
While eating artichokes, one of his favorite dishes, Daddy told us how one night out walking he'd found a shoebox on the pier in Panama and when he opened the lid, inside was a dead baby.
2007-08-19 21:33:51 / Rating: 368.25 /
busboy
As they sit and think they are better, I take away their food and never have felt smarter.
2007-08-14 16:59:37 / Rating: 308.25 /
Jeff A.
She smells like something unidentifiable from childhood.
2007-08-10 13:07:06 / Rating: 372 /
Jackye Chan
I had to forgive my mom for using the duct tape, or else suffer the same fate.
2007-08-06 17:02:19 / Rating: 250 /
meq
I was molested for 8 years by my older brother, now he is leaving for iraq and I'm supposed to feel bad.
2007-08-03 15:39:05 / Rating: 374.25 /
msemh
As I looked down at the extra ninety degree angle in my arm I told my gym teacher "I think I broke my arm."
2007-07-30 13:31:38 / Rating: 290 /
Lenore
My voice teacher was no longer my hero after I walked in on her having an affair with my friend's dad.
2007-07-17 13:11:58 / Rating: 263.75 /
dc
After adopting my father's habit of sitting through the entirety of movie credits, I realized that it had payed off when I saw the name Shelita Buffet scroll across the screen.
2007-07-16 15:25:42 / Rating: 444.75 /
Jennifer
I used to wish my parents would divorce so that we could all be happier.
2007-07-12 21:16:20 / Rating: 331.75 /
Danimal
My teetotaling harks back to the ripe age of 13 when, in a fit of uncontrollable giggling, I was ordered to a guest bedroom so they could continue the Passover seder.
2007-07-11 13:02:00 / Rating: 310.5 /
Rebecca
Twelve years later and I still think someone from the prison is calling to tell me he has died.
2007-06-26 16:59:04 / Rating: 377 /
lost
After I found a dirty old gym sock in my locker on the first day of freshman year, I knew high school was going to be the worst four years of my life.
2007-06-22 13:33:33 / Rating: 347.25 /
mochawoman
I was a Jedi until I got my boobs and then was told I had to be Princess Leia and wait to be rescued.
2007-06-20 14:53:02 / Rating: 681 /
Tgirl
With more of my life to come, I find it only getting better when the sun is out.
2007-06-18 11:06:12 / Rating: 236.5 /
Barry
I wonder every day what it would be like to have achieved my childhood dreams, knowing it's impossible to grow up to be a kitten.
2007-06-15 13:47:45 / Rating: 647.25 /
Rabbit of Caerbanog
The day I found a twenty dollar bill on the street when I was 10 was the happiest day of my life.
2007-06-14 14:59:31 / Rating: 270.25 /
kwerk
"Sorry, sweetie," Mom said as she used some napkins to wipe the elephant snot off my forearm, "but he took all your peanuts."
2007-06-14 14:57:08 / Rating: 415.5 /
Crich
I will never respect someone so deeply as my brother, who came to my birthday when my friends and four other brothers all decided that they had more fun things to do.
2007-06-13 09:53:24 / Rating: 450.25 /
Courtney
Under the couch is not a good place to dispose of the food that you don't want to eat.
2007-06-07 09:31:51 / Rating: 286.75 /
Chris
I will always regret not being by the side of my 9 year old brother, my best friend, the day he died of Leukemia.
2007-06-05 17:13:52 / Rating: 381.25 /
countedx58
I hated long Sunday drives with my parents until the day they took me to see the redwoods.
2007-06-04 12:22:11 / Rating: 321.5 /
pinklu
When I was 5 and knew it all, I stubbornly ignored my dad's guidance, but then the stick in my eye incident shut me up for a while.
2007-06-04 11:34:51 / Rating: 326 /
Robert J
After I cleaned up, I walked back into my room with my mom and discovered that it was my sister who had peed on me from the top bunk.
2007-06-03 00:35:14 / Rating: 274.25 /
The average man
As a kid ,I was burning bugs with a magnifying glass when my playmate's father took the glass, zeroed it in on my hand and asked "Do you want to know what the bugs feel"?
2007-05-30 13:36:38 / Rating: 416 /
D.
I reckon I was about eight, but I completely recall my sister throwing her nail scissors directly into the back of my knee.
2007-05-29 15:58:34 / Rating: 321.5 /
villageofmany
Today I am safe and surviving but I was born to a hateful, abusive family and the end result left me fractured as a multiple.
2007-05-21 10:14:36 / Rating: 332.75 /
Michael Fomkin
I always remember the warm summer breeze on my face as a child, looking out towards the ocean some thirty years later the breeze found me once again.
2007-05-17 13:50:07 / Rating: 286.25 /
Never was
I watch anything about cheerleading on TV that comes on because I always wanted to be one, when I was in high school almost 20 years ago.
2007-05-14 13:31:11 / Rating: 298.75 /
how i'd like to be credited
One day, our kids will look through old photo albums and say, "Hey, why did Mom go to prom with you AND Uncle Chris, especially since Uncle Chris likes BOYS?"
2007-05-10 10:41:46 / Rating: 408 /
Allan
Apparently wearing your undies on the outside doesn't make you Superman.
2007-05-10 10:38:40 / Rating: 328.25 /
Miss.NoName
Though I was only 6, I knew how wrong I was to let my grandparents dog rapidly hump my pelvis, behind his dog house that spring.
2007-04-25 15:55:07 / Rating: 393.75 /
how i'd like to be credited
When making a film for English class, chocolate pudding works wonderfully as a substitute for poop, as does vegetable soup for vomit.
2007-04-16 15:48:09 / Rating: 290 /
Sam
I looked at the rusty nail in my foot and thought, "Maybe I shouldn't play 'Blindman's Bluff' with no shoes on."
2007-04-16 12:46:35 / Rating: 276.75 /
Sam
My dismay led to tears when my Underoos didn't transform me into He-man like the commercial said.
2007-04-16 12:46:28 / Rating: 335.75 /
CoreJay
The snow fell of the roof with a heavy thud, just like my poor Uncle Martin did a few winters prior.
2007-04-16 12:43:01 / Rating: 406 /
partisangirl16
She tried to kill herself on my thirteenth birthday, and sometimes I wish she succeeded.
2007-04-12 16:01:30 / Rating: 317.5 /
Going Like Sixty
Mother marched me right back into the store where I had just shoplifted a small toy.
2007-04-11 10:39:18 / Rating: 292 /
Jean
At the age of 12, I found a wallet in a department store and lied to the owner when asked if I'd seen it.
2007-03-20 16:40:20 / Rating: 308.75 /
A kid
Maybe I was wrong, but your "I love you" felt more heartfelt when you thought I was addicted.
2007-03-16 13:43:12 / Rating: 427.5 /
Possum
I've never seen anyone look as blissed out as the tiny 3 year old whose was the perfect height to stand directly beneath the hand dryer.
2007-03-14 16:03:07 / Rating: 395.75 /
lucy
It was so lonely growing up, the kindergarten teacher did not even miss me when I didn't come in after recess.
2007-03-01 14:29:03 / Rating: 323 /
DF
I will always remember from my boyhood the time that I brushed the whiskers out of a dead man's electric razor that I had inherited.
2007-02-16 16:34:23 / Rating: 339.5 /
Tony
When he died, my life ever after was lived with an asterisk next to the events in my life that would have been better had he been there.
2007-01-31 10:59:54 / Rating: 439.5 /
Olivoi
The best benefit of being good is that you can get away with almost anything.
2007-01-23 09:52:23 / Rating: 390.5 /
Gareth
I never knew what I wanted from life, except to be a better father to my children (if I have any) than mine was to me.
2006-12-22 00:33:17 / Rating: 330.75 /
Joanna
I once thought that not growing up sick would make me a better person, but then I learned that the opposite was true.
2006-12-22 00:31:34 / Rating: 320.5 /
Mimi Ghez
When I got my period at age 12, my father stood outside the bathroom door, trying to make me feel better by singing the words to a popular 1970s commercial, "You are a W - U - O - M - A - N, you are a woooman!"
2006-12-15 22:07:47 / Rating: 451.75 /
GorillaStretch
I hit my head on the floor when I was 7 and since then my life has gone progressively downhill.
2006-12-15 15:11:29 / Rating: 281.5 /
Brightlighs
It was in equally shared tears of a naive teenaged girl that I realized that I too was rid of my childhood.
2006-12-11 20:24:08 / Rating: 326 /
The Ordinary
It is the definition of irony that you confess to me now, here in the broom closet, when I know that my breath reeks something fierce.
2006-12-05 12:28:55 / Rating: 413 /
MIA Robin
My mother took great delight in pointing out my shyness to strangers who were kinder to me than she ever was.
2006-12-04 15:33:27 / Rating: 377.75 /
Coryn
My cousin won a pig in a contest and on the day it vanished mysteriously, my grandama served us my favorite pork dish for lunch.
2006-12-01 18:22:20 / Rating: 291.75 /
Baron Raymundo
To this very day my kid brother still won't touch anything if I tell him it tastes like chocolate.
2006-11-29 15:16:20 / Rating: 424.25 /
she has no name
When I was 2 years old, I nearly burst into tears because Minnie Mouse's house was plastic.
2006-11-28 09:59:39 / Rating: 320.5 /
SS
When I was 12 my mom told me that I should sleep with as many men as possible.
2006-11-27 10:34:46 / Rating: 373.25 /
Rajesh. P.I
I have been searching the real and the virtual world in vain for Mrs. Zeta, my wonderful school teacher, for the last 16 years.
2006-11-26 14:46:16 / Rating: 340.75 /
Olivoi
After recess in Pre-K, I hid behind a big tree so I wouldn't have to go back to class.
2006-11-21 15:24:16 / Rating: 352.5 /
Kate O
At school on Monday, all of the other kids couldn't stop talking about Michael's death but I lived in fear of what they might say if they knew I was in the car that killed him.
2006-11-21 10:23:17 / Rating: 440.75 /
Lem
When I was 5, I was in love with a kid who thought he was Spiderman.
2006-11-13 14:19:38 / Rating: 375.75 /
Clara
I went to nerd camp, and it might have been the best thing that's ever happened to me.
2006-11-05 11:42:00 / Rating: 334.25 /
Lily
When we were eleven he was grossed out when I accidentally took a drink from his glass, but by the time we were sixteen he actually wanted to swap spit with me.
2006-11-01 16:20:27 / Rating: 401 /
Wogglebug
My parents thought I was disturbed when I went as a serial killer one year, but it was time the Trix Rabbit learned that no means no.
2006-10-30 00:20:23 / Rating: 438.25 /
The Black Cat
I tried to humor my family because I was so small and crawled into the highchair at the restaurant - and it was funny until they had to unscrew it to get me out of there.
2006-10-24 10:25:28 / Rating: 271.25 /
.mosugs
Everything was making a lot of sense until, three days before my bat mitzvah, my mother told me she was getting baptised.
2006-10-23 15:54:24 / Rating: 326.5 /
Erik
Two stitches and twenty years later, I still don't know why she threw the rock at me, but I'm pretty sure that she was lying when she said, "I was playing hopscotch and missed."
2006-10-18 14:28:22 / Rating: 431.5 /
chris
I grabbed my brothers leg from underneath an adjacent toilet cubicle in a foodcourt and he ran out screaming.
2006-10-18 14:27:10 / Rating: 370.25 /
you know who i am
My sister once caught me looking at her chest.
2006-10-16 12:54:36 / Rating: 380 /
jas0n
After the lego man's head was successfully extracted from my sinus at the pediatrician's office while my mother was in labor, my grandmother would not let me out of her sight.
2006-10-11 11:16:20 / Rating: 306.75 /
Ryan
We'd never said a single word to each other, but I asked her out (unsuccessfully) when we slow danced for the first time.
2006-10-10 10:29:42 / Rating: 268.25 /
cmonk
I was lost into a world of abuse, sex, and alcoholism at the ripe old age of three and it went downhill from there until my first day of sobriety some 20 years ago.
2006-10-05 12:55:20 / Rating: 390.25 /
Lump
One second I was riding my bike down a hill the next I was on the asphalt crying with my shoulder torn apart.
2006-10-04 17:47:41 / Rating: 279.75 /
Don't call me Shirley
I was more than half asleep when I heard my father speaking, but I didn't understand he was telling me she was dead.
2006-10-03 10:50:02 / Rating: 394.5 /
Christopher
Grasshoppers need their hind legs to live.
2006-10-03 10:43:15 / Rating: 372 /
revscrj
As a child I used to think that 'Anon' was a Greek philosopher, when told otherwise, I lost my first real hero.
2006-09-29 22:01:38 / Rating: 486 /
Chad
My father gave me a glass of milk to help swallow the pages as I was slowly force-fed the forbidden book he discovered hidden under my bed.
2006-09-29 11:39:15 / Rating: 409 /
Evytyn
When the teacher asked my third grade class what they wanted to be when they grew up, I stood up and replied, "Not my father."
2006-09-29 11:33:40 / Rating: 445.75 /
Crystal
Mom, I never told you what they did to me, because I was ashamed and I was afraid you would think it was my fault.
2006-09-29 11:13:36 / Rating: 355.75 /
hollymolly
It wasn't until my 3rd marriage proposal in 2 months at the ripe old age of 12 that i decided living in an orphanage in Venezuela wasn't going to be so bad after all.
2006-09-26 22:39:11 / Rating: 398.75 /
Andrew
When we asked our mom to tell us a story, she replied "A pig fell in the mud."
2006-09-23 21:03:17 / Rating: 361.25 /
Mike Booth
As an innocent eight year old, I had no idea that my threat to kill my younger brother and sister would bring about such rapid, and gratifying results, returning me to my rightful place at the center of the universe.
2006-09-11 23:09:58 / Rating: 357.75 /
Steve Brettult
I'm happily married with a family, but I still pine for the girl who died in high school.
2006-09-11 12:27:17 / Rating: 444.5 /
Eimear
I often think it odd how one of my clearer childhood memories is of slapping my two year old brother's face as hard as my seven year old self could manage.
2006-09-11 12:20:17 / Rating: 299.25 /
Ali
She breezed into my technology class, late and toting a beige shoulder bag, and I knew that some time later she was going to be the most wonderful thing in my life.
2006-09-09 20:37:45 / Rating: 686.75 /
Bob
When I was eight or nine years old, I had a dream that I was riding my bike in the driveway and my dad backed the car into me, but instead of hurting me, it crushed the rear end of the car.
2006-09-05 07:43:37 / Rating: 394.25 /
David Vanderbyl
Only a few blocks from home my 3-year-old brother opened the rear door of our family's Dodge Polara, and quick as a wink he was gone.
2006-09-02 19:10:06 / Rating: 2545.5 /
Pablo
When I finished kindergarden I was so excited because I thought it was all the school i would need for the rest of my life.
2006-08-26 10:14:34 / Rating: 469.75 /
Charles
His tiny fingers clutched the crayon as they had once clutched the trigger, and like so many boys his age, he stuck his tongue out while he drew.
2006-08-24 14:06:21 / Rating: 534 /
Shane
I was nearly sent to the hospital because I could not convince the school nurse that my head had always been this shape.
2006-08-18 12:27:29 / Rating: 1431.5 /
Tony
When hurricane Frederick hit our home town my brother was upset because the TV movie of the week, The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars and Motor Kings, was pre-empted for hurricane coverage.
2006-08-17 17:29:32 / Rating: 265 /
Melanie
I knew it was bad that day when my mother showed me her wrists, "I cut myself again."
2006-08-14 20:11:00 / Rating: 326.25 /
Charlie
My first sexual experience was with my neighbor, who was older than me and told me we should play house and that I could be the mommy and she could be the daddy.
2006-08-12 19:28:27 / Rating: 369.25 /
Daniel
If only I knew then what I know now, I'd have done everything differently -- but that wouldn't have made me who I am today.
2006-08-12 17:40:54 / Rating: 339 /
Joy
After she flung the stall door open and laughed at me, I sat cross-legged in the grass and wet my pants, too afraid to return to the restroom.
2006-08-11 11:28:59 / Rating: 244.25 /
Eugene
In the days after my mother died, we found innumerable small boxes tucked away in the drawers and corners of our house, on each box a label and on each label a name that was not mine.
2006-08-11 09:06:34 / Rating: 411.25 /
Darryl
One time, when I was young, I thought I was The Rhino (of Spiderman fame) and put my head through the glass part of our screen door.
2006-08-10 12:38:29 / Rating: 296.25 /
Paul
I once convinced multiple people that a music video involving people smashing watermelons to the ground was about life in the future.
2006-08-10 09:26:00 / Rating: 310 /
Dave Walls
While on a trip in Boy Scouts, I stopped to relieve myself, only to find a gaggle of Girl Scouts on the other side of the tree I was peeing on.
2006-07-05 11:08:33 / Rating: 330.25 /
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.
2006-06-29 17:09:00 / Rating: 356 /
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.
2006-06-28 13:10:24 / Rating: 361.75 /
aharris
One time I tore a dollar in half to buy a 50 cent popsicle.
2006-06-28 13:04:45 / Rating: 394.75 /
Ryan
I wore plaid pants to school once in second grade and totally shouldn't have.
2006-06-28 12:41:06 / Rating: 381.25 /
Paul
I once believed that not only color television, but color itself, was invented in the late 1950s.
2006-06-28 08:27:53 / Rating: 487 /
Ryan
I had a crush on Katie, my "dream girl", but she thought I was gross.
2006-06-27 20:05:53 / Rating: 317.75 /
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.
2006-06-27 17:39:54 / Rating: 303.25 /
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."
2006-06-27 17:39:05 / Rating: 301.75 /
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.
2006-06-27 17:35:14 / Rating: 341 /
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.
2006-06-27 17:34:32 / Rating: 795.75 /
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.
2006-06-27 17:31:27 / Rating: 276.75 /
Alex
One summer vacation, I walked down the pier at Lake Geneva and accidentally fell into the water.
2006-06-27 17:30:42 / Rating: 296.25 /
Stacey
I tend to remember a time when I was DRAGGED into a tree in our backyard.
2006-05-23 09:36:53 / Rating: 284.75 /
Ryan
One time as a child, I was playing Marco Polo in my backyard and walked into a tree.
2006-05-22 17:50:35 / Rating: 315.5 /