Weird things you did as a kid?

[Velocity]

When I was a tot in the 50's, we had no air conditioning and Illinois is stinkin' hot in the summer, so I would take a little cup and scrape it against the frost accumulated in the refrigerator freezer. Then, I'd put sugar on top of the frost. Poor man's sno cone.

My cousins and I were at our grandparents' house and we noticed that our grandparents had a lot of tubes of mostly used medicinal gunk that they had kept because, although pretty ancient, they just couldn't throw it out. So, we gathered a lot of it and squeezed them into old bottles of drinks like Coca Cola and Nehi, added some water and shook them up. Then my artistically adept cousins made very nice labels to affix to the bottles of nastiness and Vomit Cola was born. No one drank them, they were just for admiring.

 

[scotpens]

As a preteen, I was a bundle of nervous tics and compulsive behaviors. In bed, I had a habit of bouncing my head up and down to make me tired enough to fall asleep, and also moving my feet like windshield wipers. And I had a charming habit of wiping my lip on the neckband of my T-shirt.

. . . Also I would sometimes make pancakes but put food coloring in the batter, so they'd come out blue or red or whatever.

My brother and I would do that with packaged cake mixes. We made cakes that were blue, green or purple. (Not the Hitler one, though.)

 

[Jedman67]

I was prob around 5th or 6th grade when i really got into Star Wars. I built my own lightsaber out of a cardboard paper-towel tube, a couple of D batteries and silver foil. Unfortunately my Force catching ability was severely lacking.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Jumping off the garage roof with a cape on.. Yeah only Superman can fly. Luckily no broken bones

 

[RunningValkyrie]

Jumping off the garage roof with a cape on.. Yeah only Superman can fly. Luckily no broken bones

I used to do stuff like that too. It’s not pleasant to get the wind knocked out of you.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I remember doing a few incredibly dangerous things in the park playground, things that I survived without any injury whatsoever, but which in an alternate timeline might have seriously injured, crippled, or even killed me. Easily the most dangerous of the lot was working my way across the top of the supersized swing set along the pole, which if I'd lost my balance and then grip would have involved rolling around upside down and falling over ten feet, head first, onto concrete. Halfway, in the middle, between the two A-frames was not the time to be wondering, "Why the heck am I doing this?"

That one was filed under "Things I Never Told Mom."

 

[wew]

I used to eat unusual items that were not designated as food; such pencils, erasers, and sometimes strips of aluminum from soda cans.

 

[Sibyl]

I used to eat unusual items that were not designated as food; such pencils, erasers, and sometimes strips of aluminum from soda cans.

I chewed on those things a lot but never swallowed them.