What's your most painful childhood memory?

[Mookie4ever]

Not painful memory, but one of my fondest memories was when I was a kid and I went to a friends house. While he was outside playing in his sandbox I threw his cat out the second story window at him. Man you should have seen the kids face when the cat hit. It was priceless.

I like to start every day with a Tavish post.

[Mookie4ever]

I've nearly drowned on three separate occasions.

You would think that you would have learned to stay out of the water.

I've fallen out of a countless number of trees.

You would think that you would have learned to stop climbing trees.

I've fallen through a frozen ice creek three miles away from 'room temperature'.

I don't know what "three miles away from 'room temperature'" means but this is starting to sound less like a case of bad luck and more of a case of you should be riding a short bus.

I've had a bum offer my mom two sleeping bags in exchange for my brother and me.

I'm begining to suspect that your mom accepted and you and the bum lived in a tree......above a creek approximately three miles away from room temperature.

[Omaha Red Sox]

I've nearly drowned on three separate occasions.

You would think that you would have learned to stay out of the water.

I've fallen out of a countless number of trees.

You would think that you would have learned to stop climbing trees.

I've fallen through a frozen ice creek three miles away from 'room temperature'.

I don't know what "three miles away from 'room temperature'" means but this is starting to sound less like a case of bad luck and more of a case of you should be riding a short bus.

I've had a bum offer my mom two sleeping bags in exchange for my brother and me.

I'm begining to suspect that your mom accepted and you and the bum lived in a tree......above a creek approximately three miles away from room temperature.

I don't swim anymore. See the "What are you afraid of thread". Don't all kids fall out of trees? I think I did just a few more times than normal. When I fell through the ice, I was approximately 3 miles from the closest house. I had to walk in freezing weather drenching wet. I literally crawled the last hundred feet or so because my body was shaking so bad. Pretty scary. All these are probably a combination of bad luck and bad decisions. The bum was a nice old man that lived under a bridge close to where we went grocery shopping. Maybe my mom should have taken him up on the deal. Maybe he would have kept me out of water, trees, etc.

[perlick29]

Not painful memory, but one of my fondest memories was when I was a kid and I went to a friends house. While he was outside playing in his sandbox I threw his cat out the second story window at him. Man you should have seen the kids face when the cat hit. It was priceless.

I like to start every day with a Tavish post.

Agreed. Although I think my keyboard hates Tavish because of the Orange Juice I've spit on over the years, an event that repeated itself this morning.

[Dan Lambskin]

Not painful memory, but one of my fondest memories was when I was a kid and I went to a friends house. While he was outside playing in his sandbox I threw his cat out the second story window at him. Man you should have seen the kids face when the cat hit. It was priceless.

I like to start every day with a Tavish post.

man, that's funnier than Omaha's mom getting an offer to trade him for sleeping bags

i stuck my tounge to a frozen fence one...that really sucked. i didnt believe it would really work like in Cristmas Story...only i didnt just put the tip on, i stuck my whole tounge on there like i was licking an ice-cream cone. i tried to pull it off and ripped some skin off. finally my baby-sitter threw some warm water on the pole

[chadlincoln]

Dr. Phil says, "Explore with me how that truly makes you feel."

[1337_Dude]

I've had a bum offer my mom two sleeping bags in exchange for my brother and me.

We have a winner...

Don't all kids fall out of trees?

I always avoided situations like being in trees... I was a cautious kid.

[knapplc]

I always avoided situations like being in trees... I was a cautious kid.

I think I spent about a quarter of my childhood in trees - climbing, building forts, using them as ladders to climb to the top of houses, barns, sheds, etc.

Trees are nature's jungle gyms!

[1337_Dude]

I always avoided situations like being in trees... I was a cautious kid.

I think I spent about a quarter of my childhood in trees - climbing, building forts, using them as ladders to climb to the top of houses, barns, sheds, etc.

Trees are nature's jungle gyms!

I always just figured I'd fall out of the tree, so I stayed away from climbing them.

[knapplc]

I always avoided situations like being in trees... I was a cautious kid.

I think I spent about a quarter of my childhood in trees - climbing, building forts, using them as ladders to climb to the top of houses, barns, sheds, etc.

Trees are nature's jungle gyms!

I always just figured I'd fall out of the tree, so I stayed away from climbing them.

You were entirely to pragmatic for a child. I fell out of lots of trees, but I was never smart enough (or pragmatic enough) to stay out of them the next time.