Cringe-inducing childhood memories?

[Hassan Darkside]

Let us reminisce the good old days where we did completely socially and morally unacceptable things out of our blissful ignorance. What are some of the things you've done, said, or thought when you were a kid that makes you cringe now when you look back on them?

[Blzer]

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I was six years old, and guess I didn't understand enough laws of physics that twigs on trees couldn't support my weight. I climbed a tree in my backyard and I was up at least twenty feet. I jumped to a twig, it snapped, and I landed on my back on dirt, not one foot away from cement. I nearly died. I'm sweating typing about it.

Probably not what you meant (more like if I pointed at a fat man and laughed or tried to take jewelry from a store or something), but that is one I'll just never forget. I can't imagine not being alive after that moment, or being paralyzed from the neck down.

[Bighoff]

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The list is long but one that stands out is in 2nd grade telling a substitute teacher to STFU. I caught quite the beating both at school and at home for this.

[Jr.]

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When I was in the 5th and 6th grades, my best friend and I had a stealing scheme from a local Family Dollar. We would work as a team and steal about $15-20 worth of candy/gum/toys every couple of weeks or so and sell them at school. We would "work" for a couple of months at a time, then take a month off.

I'm sure my memory has exaggerated how much we actually made before we got caught, but it was probably close to $1,000 each over the 2 years before my mom caught us.

We were both banned from that Family Dollar and I still haven't been back to this day.

[sydrogerdavid]

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I was pitching in a game of youth baseball, rec league, most everyone was terrible. My dad yelled from the dugout, "Let your defense do the work!" I looked him dead in the eye from the mound and shook my head at him. Being the pitcher, everybody saw me do this. I can't imagine how many parents hated me that day for putting down their child for being terrible at baseball.

I still regret doing it, but it was the heat of the moment and it was terribly true. This league was one of those leagues with the 5 run inning rule. Since they (not I) were still too young for the extreme basic fundamental of fielding a grounder and throwing to first or catching a pop up, you either had to strike out all the batters, walk them, or let them hit and allow them to score all 5 runs.

[Watson]

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Saints and LSU football.

[Galvatron]

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Damn, this trip down memory lane is a rough one.

Age 7, played a game in school between the boys and girls during lunchtime called 7-11. Don't know if anyone is familiar with this game but it involved the boys chasing the girls, like a game of tag. Only if you caught one, they got groped and it would continue until all the girls were caught( I feel wrong just remembering this let alone typing it) Anyhow, me a buddy who I can't remember got a little carried away and wound up facing the principal and some girl's angry mom. Suspended for a week (this was the mid-80's thank God, I surely would've gotten harsher treatment today for this)

Age 8, the father of one of the kids in my class came to speak to the teacher about his bad behavior, which was strange because it wasn't during a parent-teacher conference or anything but in the middle of a normal class. Anyhow, my teacher proceeded to tell the father about some stuff like him talking during class, acting up and other things. Then outta nowhere, the father begins to berate and scold his kid in the middle of class in this thick West-Indian accent I'll never forget, then takes off his wider than average belt and literally whips his *** in front of everyone.(again, this was the mid-80s, the teachers were even whipping us those days) I...along with everyone else, included my teacher...just burst into extreme laughter at this poor kid's expense. I mean this went on for at least a full 2 minutes, just non-stop public *** whipping. After that the kid was a model student for the rest of the school year.

I'm sure there's more but those are the most memorable to me.

[PhilliesFan13]

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21 years ago when I was 7, my sister and I stayed at my aunt's house in Virginia for a few weeks that summer. They had a tire swing in the back yard next to a fenced in garden that I was told not to go on without an adult around. Well, one day I decided to go on it and have one of my cousin's friends push me on it. As I was going around I ended up getting my left leg snagged on the top of the fence and because I was still in motion after my leg hit the top, it ripped me right off the fence splitting my leg open. Blood everywhere. I remember my aunt having to wrap my leg in a bed sheet and rush me to the hospital. I had to get tetanus shots and I was supposed to get close to 100 stitches but for whatever reason they only stitched me up with 25. To this day I have a massive scar on my leg that measures about 17 inches long or so. Since I never got the proper amount of stitches, it healed weird and when you touch it it feels like rubber. Haha. I used to be self conscious about it as a kid, but now I forget it is there sometimes.

I definitely still cringe when I think about that whole incident though. Could have been a lot worse with the amount of blood I lost.

[mb625]

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In third grade, I went to school and there was a ball of fabric that I could feel around the ankle of my jeans and toward the middle of the day, I finally got it out... turned out to be a pair of my underwear. Worst moment of my life.

[WDOgF0reL1fe]

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Pretty much anytime you thought you were doing something "cool" or "funny" back in junior high or high school.

Then you see kids acting that way these days and just shake your head

[Hassan Darkside]

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That reminds me that I was one of those people who posted a song lyric facebook status every day when I first got facebook.

[slickdtc]

I was probably 7 or 8, was at my friend's neighborhood pool playing teatherball. Anyway, the ball got wrapped around the pole, but I was kind of circling it to get it before it got too tangled. Guess I got dizzy, because I ran right into the pole with my top right front tooth. Chipped about a quarter of it right off.

Not sure what age I was when this happened (between 5-8 probably, my childhood memory really isn't that good), but my 2nd oldest brother (he's 4 years older then me) and his friend were riding bikes. For some reason they thought it was a good idea to tie theirs to my tricycle and right down the hill we lived on. Well, we rode down the sidewalk and it got uneven at the end. My dumb *** was standing on the back of the tricycle instead of sitting down, got launched and ate pavement. I remember running up the hill to our house, and one of the neighbors asking if I'm okay... Yeah besides my whole face being scraped up, I was fine. I'll have to ask my brothers if they saw me face-slide because it probably looked real crazy.

When I was about 9-10 I busted my chin open on a half pipe at the skate park. I think I crushed off a piece of my molar too. It didn't really hurt, but I should've gotten stitches but just got a butterfly instead... Still have the scar underneath my chin beard.

[TheShizNo1]

I got written up on the bus in sixth grade and told the bus driver to "suck it" while doing the DX crotch chop.

Told my gym teacher in high school "**** this class".

Tried to start a supremacist black group in middle school.

MMA fans familiar w/ the Showtime Pettis kick? If not, YouTube it. In middle school I did that to the back of a girl's head. One of the most embarrassing things I've done looking back on it and my friends refuse to let it die.

To be continued...

[C the Lyte]

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For some reason, a trend started in 7th grade wehre ppl would stab someone with a number 2 pencil. They called it jabbing. I didn't start this, but I ended up mauling ppl! I got about 4 different heads of pencils stuck in me but came away lucky. I put scars on some ppl that are still present to this day. One of my best friends actually has one of the worst b/c of me.

I don't know why this one stuck out, but it didn't even take looking back to know that this was stupid. I knew it at the time but considered it self defense.

[khaled]

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I yelled at a kid in 5th grade because he had a runny nose and was coughing. In the middle of class I turned at him and yelled "stop doing that! you're disgusting! Stooopppp ittttttttttt" all the kids stared at us..

The kid goes to college with me know. Idk if he remembers it but when I see him I feel bad about it and try to avoid him.