Posted on 09/24/2012 11:59:12 AM PDT by trailhkr1
During the late 50’s and being a pre-teen, my older brother created a life changing event for me. Living in NYC my brother told me that people who visited Florida were bringing back baby crocs. When the crocs became to big they flushed then down the toilets. He said that the crocs were roaming the sewers of NYC and coming up toilet bowels and attacking unsuspecting people sitting on the bowl. Now in my mid-60’s I still look for them before I sit down on the throne.
I’m sure all guys remember thinking this...when you first heard the term “bj” and thinking a girl actually blowing on your ahem...like I said I grew up in a strict religious/naive home.
Approaching an escalator at the age of 7 my dad told me to be sure and lift my feet otherwise I’d get sliced up like baloney.
I think about it overtime I take an escalator.
I used to tell my kids that too and it took them a while to figure it out as well.
Funny. I remember riding little brothers 3 wheel down the outside stairs.
Leaned back and almost made it all the way down before it came out from under me.
I wonder, sometimes , how I got this far in life?????
bad thing about below was, I was an older teenager .
I always thought the song was “Secret Asian Man”.
I always thought Jimi sang “scuse me while I kiss this guy”
Hell, up until a couple of years ago, I though chocolate liqueur had alcohol in it.
But the worst was, I found out recently, in a thread on FreeRepublic, that wrasslin was fake.
I used to think when it rained it was because God was crying because of something I did.
I remember my Dad lecturing me about my 80’s music. He would say you can’t understand what they are saying and it doesn’t make any sense. And then I reminded him of a song he used to sing to me that was written in the 1940’s. The chorus went like this…
Mairzy doats and dozy doats
And liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
Yes! Mairzy doats and dozy doats
and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you?
Lyrics that are easily understood and make perfect sense.
Finding a bomb in the bomb shelter was one of the odd moments in my childhood. That is what happens when your dad is in the Navy and the only place they can house him, you, and your seven siblings is in and old house abutting the ammunition depot. Of course, when I was four, I was told that pulling the white switch on the red box summoned Santa Clause. I thought he was escorted by firetrucks at first.
Idiot! LOLOLOLOL
That is going to stick with me all day....
Probably the craziest one is when I was little, I wanted to be a superhero, and I heard an old folk tale that if you ate a spider it would make you super strong.
Well...very embarrassing, LOL... from the time I was 7 or 8, until I graduated high school, no spider was safe...LMAO...I know, it’s terrible.
Coincidentally, if they ever decided to film a new “Bonanza” series, they wouldn’t go far wrong to cast me in the Hoss Cartwright role. I live in a small liveaboard community where I am the official Lifter of Heavy Things, and Tosser of Unwelcome Guests.
And still, occasionally...when the wild hair strikes me...
skitter skitter skitter SNATCH...GULP
What can I say? I’ve said too much!! LOL!!
Gahan Wilson once did a hilarious series of cartoons about childhood myths. My favorite: “If you make a face at someone and get slapped on the back, your face will freeze with that expression for the rest of your life.”
My myth: there were strip mines in the hills around our town in NE Ohio and the excavators worked around the clock, their engines making a noise like galloping. That was the Headless Horseman riding through those hills and he would snatch any kid whose nightstand light was on, right out through the window. I read my comic books with a flashlight under several blankets, for months.
;^)
In a closely related episode, just about the time my parents had finished up my potty training and I was checked out to fly solo in the bathroom, we watched 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. I was terrified by the giant squid, and my brother told me that sometimes, they will reach up through the pipes and suck people through the commode. I needed a bit of re-training after that.
Despite these childhood incidents, I've grown extremely fond of my bathroom, and get a lot of quality reading and thinking done there :-)
I also think it would be great if someone could type what I actually mean.
Must spell check before posting...
I used to believe that I invented the Little Rascals.
When I was a kid, and we went to Disneyland I thought that the “people” on the People Mover were real and couldn’t understand why they didn’t move. LOL
ROTFL!!! I can’t stop laughing. Thanks!
BTW, we need rain.
When I was young,I thought the news was truthful and democrats were the good guys,then I grew up.
Ok, let me think of something I can do.
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