Tell a memory from your childhood. Not sure why this came into my mind this morning. Probably reflecting on the circus in the USA, the world in general and turning 60 soon.

It was 1967 and Canada was turning 100 years old. Bobby Gimby wrote the Canada song which united us with such joy and hope. We were a nation of happy people, safe, secure with nothing but rainbows in the skies from coast to coast. I was 6 and Bobby Gimby came to our school and played his song while we sang at the tops of our lungs and followed him around the park.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vE17TazIvM

When I was around 5 years old, I tied a bunch of sheets together and used them to climb out the second floor window for fun. When I got down, I was locked outside and neighbors had to call my Mom to let me back in.  I think I literally saw steam coming out of my Moms ears that day.

i watched shrek (the movie) after school every day for like a week

You truly are the quintessential Zoomer

Personally I remember having to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua like 30 times because we had family movie nights and my younger brother was obsessed with it. Still have one of the songs stuck in my head

I remember leaping off the roof of our old chicken coup with an umbrella when I was about 6. I expected to float down. Never did that again.

My 6pm class was suddenly canceled (well, I was suddenly told last minute) due to third-year middle school tests.

So,... i bring up memories of a class that i suddenly missed and a lass that I didn't.

 In the last year of high school my best friend and I took a study hall break class because we had 3 science and 2 math classes among our 7, and one didn't need an 8th (or could fail it, i guess). The principal oversaw the class and we always were quiet and hard working when he came. One day the vice-principal informed us the P couldn't come and we were to study on our own in the classroom. Riiiigghht. It was April, 20+ C outside and sunny, and it happened to be our last class of the day that Thursday, so we bailed and went to the park, threw around a football, and I met a girl there, dating her a year and a half later when i saw her in college and remembered her name, walking up to say hi. We then dated for 13 months.  I remember I was glad the principal was absent and my bud and I decided to take off; and thinking that if it had been rainy we would have waited for the bus; we certainly wouldn't have gone to the park!

So many experiences in life are due to happenstance.

One year, my parents got us a kiddie pool, one of those non-inflatable but foldable pools meant for bigger kids. If you filled it to the top, a child could definitely swim around in it, not just wade.

Anyway, one day I had a dream that I could breathe underwater. In the dream, I had spent the entire day in the kiddie pool just kind of taking in how strange it felt to breathe underwater and how clearly I could see everything, and then wondering if I should tell anyone about it.

Now all of this had been incredibly real to me, it was the very first hyper vivid dream I'd ever had, and I was only, like, 4 or 5 at the time, so when I woke up and went through the rest of my week, I ended up honestly believing that the dream had been a real experience. It was like a memory.

So of course the very first thing I did once I had a chance to swim around in the pool again was to take a big breath while underwater. I shot out of that pool so fast just snorting and coughing and doing the best I could to breathe without pain again. My mom had come rushing over to me in a panic because she'd thought I'd somehow managed to swallow something and was choking on it. When she found out what was really going on, she nearly disowned me because no child of hers could be so ****** dumb.

I called his name and when he looked up I dropped
it on his head causing a large number of stitches.

That’s a disgusting story. You could have killed him and very well may have unknowingly caused permanent brain damage.

That’s a disgusting story. You could have killed him and very well may have unknowingly caused permanent brain damage.

+1

okay it was 2 weeks. i watched shrek for 2 full weeks

i love eddie murphy

Look. If someone tells you a MEMORY of something they did A LONG TIME AGO, don't automatically judge them.

There is a reason why there's a limit on the length of time most offenses can press charges.

If it ain't murder, cut pre-2010 (heck here we are talking 1990's and 1980's incidents) some slack.

Let memories flow.... truly... openly...

I sort of agree and see your point ... but he said ‘Good times’ at the end. ‘Bad times’ (something to regret) would be more appropriate. Seems psychopathic otherwise.