Childhood stories

[Frosty]

The older i get the more i think of my childhood and wish i was still a kid...So heres one kinda sad but the chinese dr i saw reminded me of this lady. Post yours too we all have some stories to share i know.

I would ride home on my bike everyday and this little asain women married to this big white dude with tattoos. One day she saw me and says "WHITE BOY ON BIKE YOU COME HERE NOW!" :::you know she old school asian lady thats how she talked::: So i did and she fed me every day something different chinese food etc...I dunno what it was but her food smelled so great and tasted so GREAT! I dunno if she felt sorry for me not having a lot of friends or what or maybe she couldnt have kids and she just adopted me as her own but she was pretty and nice and she was a very good cook! I did this everyday i could smell the food she was cooking on the whole street and would pedal my ass off for it! and she would say the same thing everyday. The husband would ask me did you like it and i would say yes! and she smile like hell and i would have to go back to my house and try and stuff myself with our dinner which is no easy task! two dinners a day? HOLY MOLY! I mean my mom could cook too but thats a lot of FOOD! for a 8 year old! Dad get mad say why wont finish dinner etc you know CLEAN YOUR PLATE line.

One day it was some clear noodle and it looked like a worm to me and i ran out of there like a rocket! told my dad and he goes OH MY GAWD! He ran over there and smoothed things over b/c he was embarrassed from what i said and did. The next day she still standing at doorway and im riding my bike past and i hear nothing she just standing there with the most hurt look on her face i think i ever seen. I remember thinking please say something PLEASE!. I think i crushed her heart. Every day after that the door was closed. That hurt my feelings too ya know i mean i was just a kid....

I have plenty more stories to tell and i will once a day or something if anyone wants to hear.... Lots of good ones and sad ones. I think about that lady every day of my life....

[Frosty]

Heres another one...I will just keep talking until someone tells me to shut up :)

We lived in OK for about a year and i remember being at a friends house and the sun goes down (so i thought) So i ask what time it is and he goes 3 oclock. First thought is AM!!!!!?????? Where did the time go. Nope its 3 pm afternoon. Yeah i made the stupid face and pointed to the sky and he goes we have to go inside. Im thinking whole time what wackos come out after dark or something? Im confused i think he is playing trick on me or something. We go inside house all clocks still say 3 i go what you changed all these clocks too? I get no answer. Starts pulling out radio turning tv on and all that. Im telling you tv starts beeping severe thunderstorm. I think we passed severe when the sky turned black! The hail and rain and wind that fell...HOLY MOLY! Golf ball sized hail to what ever size that was kinda big and the rain and wind its was horrible. I have never seen a storm that bad in my life and the lightning. Im adrenaline junky so i wanna go see right? WRONG! I get yelled at. You aint going no where! But i will say this it cleared up faster then it started. You hear about times like that but when you see it you still cant believe it.

[Just Whisper]

That is such a sad story Frosty. Thanks for sharing it.

[Sickie Ickie]

awwwwwwwwwwwwww... poor misunderstanding. :(

But the 2nd one was kinda funny.

[Just Whisper]

I was standing in line to sharpen my pencil in 3rd grade. Behind me stood Brett, the largest boy in my school (width wise). I was the smallest child in school. I turned around for something and he stepped on my foot. Needless to say I cried out "owww!". My teacher comes over and asks me if I want to be the first girl in our school to get the paddle? Of course I answer "no". I tried to explain that Brett stepped on me but for some reason no one ever listens to anyone in my family. We are guilty until proven.... never mind... we are just guilty. So she marches me down to the principal's office and I was indeed the first girl to be paddled with the very large half inch thick paddle with the holes in it. But that was not my most humiliating day in that class (to be continued).

[Frosty]

I was standing in line to sharpen my pencil in 3rd grade. Behind me stood Brett, the largest boy in my school (width wise). I was the smallest child in school. I turned around for something and he stepped on my foot. Needless to say I cried out "owww!". My teacher comes over and asks me if I want to be the first girl in our school to get the paddle? Of course I answer "no". I tried to explain that Brett stepped on me but for some reason no one ever listens to anyone in my family. We are guilty until proven.... never mind... we are just guilty. So she marches me down to the principal's office and I was indeed the first girl to be paddled with the very large half inch thick paddle with the holes in it. But that was not my most humiliating day in that class (to be continued).

I went to a school once that tried to pull that junk on me and it was a small town and everyone knew everybody. I get called to the office for something retarded and it was paddle or detention. I sit in that chair and im not taking either i mean i didnt do anything wrong. I remember dropping my dads name and the look on the principals face was priceless! You know my dad 290 not someone to mess with much less someone elses kids. He thought like this its the parents job to punish their kids. I know he knew who my father was he talked to him before. I told him something one day and i swear the paddle thing was never brought up in school ever again! I think they burned it and did some ritual LOL I dunno if the old man went down there or what but im guessing yes and i dont think the convo was pleasant at all!

I think its retarded really its not the schools option to do that anyway.
I have other school stories myself. I so i hated school....

[Sickie Ickie]

I guess I'm modern age being only 40-ish, but if the school were to touch my kids in a physical punishment- there'd be hell to pay.

[Frosty]

I guess I'm modern age being only 40-ish, but if the school were to touch my kids in a physical punishment- there'd be hell to pay.

That was my father point of veiw also and mine! Knowing my dad he likely knocked a few teeth loose! Seeing a kid getting a spanking bad enough and really pisses me off when i see it and want to smash the parents face in but you know....Its never like a beat down spanking just a pop you know. Still pisses me off....That reminds me of a story of a guy i chased through a depatment store once. I was 17 so its childhood i will tell later my brain hurts right now LOL!

[Just Whisper]

I have no problem with a child getting a few smacks on the ass to straighten them out. That is what is wrong with so many kids. No discipline. Sorry, but time out doesn't fix a kid who refuses to respect authority. I am not a fan of abusive parenting, but sometimes the kid needs to know they cannot walk over their parents. Looking back I wish I had used a heavier hand on my oldest. I don't agree with corporal punishment in the schools but i sure wish they were allowed to do something to those kids besides detention and suspension. That is just like a time out...it doesn't work. Well, now back to our regularly scheduled discussion. LOL

[Frosty]

AHHH JW Your oldest kid isnt that bad....He could be so much worse! (trust me! i was likely worse!) Everybody makes mistakes we are not perfect. I know its hard to believe right? :) I know i dont know your son at all but theres a lot of other bad things he cold be into or involved in etc...Gotta take the good with the bad :) Atleast he is healthy right? He tries to be nice? Horomones.....yeaaaaappp we all been there real pain in the butt. LOL Seriously he cant be that bad?

[Frosty]

This addition to last post on other page

Well im gonna tell ya how bad i was compare notes maybe he isnt so bad after all...
age 6 i hid pocket knives in back yard
age 9 i had my first gun pulled on me
age 10 arrested for theft
age 11 trespassing ::This was just being curious just harmless looking around kind of crap::
age 14 drank quite a bit
age 14 started chewing
age 15 my far share of fights
age 16 fights
age 17 street racing and causing more trouble you can shake a stick at
age 17 smoke enough pot for 35 people and i could make the best bongs around!
age 18 i drank even more and smoke my far share of pot
age 19 same as 16 17 18 and 19..

I was hell on wheels!

age 20 i start to settle down really. Other years it was same garbage fighting smokeing drinking etc...A real a pain in the butt for my parents and half the time they didnt know b/c i was too damn sneeky! My dad died when i was 17 so i got worse as time went by but i wasnt a little perfect child either and i have learned from my mistakes. I didnt have father figure around to catch me getting into trouble after he died or when he went over seas's and mom was naive. No offense mom if your reading this. What im trying to say is things could be worse and dont be mad just b/c he scrwed up a time or two it happens...

[Sickie Ickie]

My turn to chime in. :D It's funny, I was just having a similar discussion with my wife yesterday. I have a few "skeletons" in my closet that turned out to be bad mistakes. It's only through the grace of God and by being given new chances that I managed to turn out half way okay.

It's important to see the gift of someone intervening to keep one out of trouble. Then one has a choice to try to turn away or repeat the same action while being ungrateful. I think that is the difference between someone who was able to try to become better and a spiral into life long problems.

I won't go into it, but I've trod the shady side of the law once or twice, but I was able to better myself by being given new chances. Right now my wife's niece chose not to turn a blind eye to being offered better chances.

Here's saga that's happening as we speak...

My wife's niece (I'll call her V) has in the past several years - become mixed up with drugs. Of course she always uses the excuses that it is someone else's fault.

Several months ago she was sent to a half way house. There she managed to sweet talk to worker who was watching over the kids there and have a relationship with him. When found out, she claimed she was held at gun point and raped.

When driving, the cops pulled her over and found drugs on her and some large cash. She claims she was holding for someone else.

Recently she claimed she was held hostage in a house and forced to sell drugs, as well as perform sexual favors.

Her mom has taken out a restraining order on her simply because every time she comes home things wind up missing. (Go figure.)

Gramma has so much love for her family she will go to extraordinary lengths to help. Last time V visited her, Gram's money was missing from her wallet when V left.

Gram knew it was V (she is only in her 50's- so she's no old foggie), and yet she still went overboard trying to help her.

Last month Gram decided she would have V live with her under condition she would get a job, attend church, go to school, etc etc etc to keep her busy.

Last week Gram woke up to find V missing. Her new camera missing. Her wallet missing. Her checks missing. Her cell missing. And her car missing. Seems V decided these would suit her pretty well.

Gram tried calling V's mom, and possibly avoid calling the police- but ultimately the cops were called.

Meanwhile phone calls start coming in from a fake police person who claim to be looking for V and need information.

V calls her mom and said the kidnappers got her again.

The fake police calls were from a phone that had the number appear on the cell phone. This was traced to a house in Chicago. The people who lived in that house moved out abruptly the eve before.

Neighbor says there was a reward of 1k for where V was.

Police catch V in car on the North side of Chicago in not a great part of town.

V claims she knows nothing about Grams camera.

Gram has to go this week to pick up car and bring it back.

Folks, this gal has been given so many opportunities to change her actions it has been ridiculous! Now at the very least she will be getting 6 months in rehab again and 6 mo in jail....maybe more.

The REAL bad part is not knowing where the truth is in any of this. Her mom gave her enough to stay in an economy hotel for now because she blew it with gram and her mom's house.

Some say you have to hit rock bottom first. We thought she had. I guess what she has to do is enter into Dante's Hell.

[Just Whisper]

Frosty, you are correct...you do not know my son. And I suppose he could have committed murder or rape and that would have been worse. But I will by no means look at the things he did and say "awwww, boys will be boys", or "it was just kid stuff". That is why our society is so screwed up. No one has to take responsibility for what they do. Everyone makes excuses for the stupid crap they do. Yes, he did turn out to be a wonderful person with a great job. That also does not make the things he did any less hurtful or dangerous. It took many years for our relationship to get back to tolerable. By the way...the stuff you did growing up was minor kid stuff. Still dumb as hell, but nobody got hurt (except you). I am glad you were lucky enough to see the way so early in life. Most of us take longer to overcome a wayward childhood.

Sickie...Wow. I have a friend with a daughter exactly like V. It could be the same kid, almost. The mom finally gave up on her and after two stints in juvie now can't wait for her to turn 18 in a couple months to kick her out.

[Frosty]

Frosty, you are correct...you do not know my son. And I suppose he could have committed murder or rape and that would have been worse. But I will by no means look at the things he did and say "awwww, boys will be boys", or "it was just kid stuff". That is why our society is so screwed up. No one has to take responsibility for what they do. Everyone makes excuses for the stupid crap they do. Yes, he did turn out to be a wonderful person with a great job. That also does not make the things he did any less hurtful or dangerous. It took many years for our relationship to get back to tolerable. By the way...the stuff you did growing up was minor kid stuff. Still dumb as hell, but nobody got hurt (except you). I am glad you were lucky enough to see the way so early in life. Most of us take longer to overcome a wayward childhood.

Sickie...Wow. I have a friend with a daughter exactly like V. It could be the same kid, almost. The mom finally gave up on her and after two stints in juvie now can't wait for her to turn 18 in a couple months to kick her out.

Your right all my junk was stupid ass dumb things b/c i was a idiot! When you say society lets them get away with it kinda throws me off there i have been caught at everything i did. Police knew me so well they let me rid in the front seat! Another thing is i cant lie i might be a idiot but ask me a question and the truth spews out. Its just something i dont like to do never did. Oh aand the theft thing it wasnt me it was the other guy and it was hanging out with wrong people at worse possible time. I couldnt do anything on base movie, bowling alley nothing. They knew i didnt do it they saw tape but i was there and rules are rules. so.....what ya gonna do.

I know what your saying about the relationship thing i HAD a friend that got into some pretty serious things so i hear (Cant believe everything you hear) And there was some doors kicked in and no warrants etc. Now i know he should of went to the tink or tank or what ever ya wanna call it for what he did but he got off no charges I WAS SHOCKED!....But on the other hand he was a great friend(this wasnt a evil doing just a really big mistake on his part) I have not spoken with him in many years since this happened and i dont plan to either and i will avoid him like the plague but if he needed me you know i would be there. What are ya supposed to do? I still dunno and i think about it a lot what if i do run into him somewhere? What do i say? What do? Do i run off? Odd situation.

[Frosty]

Heres one at 18 years old maybe not childhood but still not adult either so here goes.

Ok heres one funny and kinda scary but still upbeat....sorta

There i was 3 thousand pounds of steel hungry and a sheet of ice on the ground! Im going to get something to eat! Well it wasnt bad getting out of the neighborhood ok but the exits are on a HILL! A STEEP HILL! and its all ice! SO i try and im smashing the gas pedel and its red lining and all this time i have one focused look on my face cig hanging out JUST ONE MORE INCH! Nope i start sliding backwards first thought is brakes right? WRONG you have no brakes on ice at all i dont care what anyone says lol I turn around and other people comming up i guess have the same idea FOOD! Im rolling backwards rolling down my window and in my best nicest voice and horn just a blowing "please move im in trouble here." Which sounded more like !@#$%^&*()(*&^%$#@ lol

Then i think on the left side there is a huge pit where a water treatment plant was so that wasnt going to happen. So i see a clear spot on the right side in the road and my thinking is drive tire is on that side so if i can just guide in there i can burn the tire off pull the wheel and kick myself in right direction. Here goes that tire hit alright smack in the middle and that tire burned smoke hell i think it even threw sparks. Truck starts turing right directing OH YEAH! Im skiding down this next street and thinking ANOTHER TURN! ??? WHEN DID THEY PUT ALL THESE ROADS IN HERE! lol Well i have seen this done on tv a time or two you know a controlled skid right? Im going for it! I yank that wheel left then right sharp and the truck starts spinning i was hoping for a half a turn but i guess i wasnt paying attention to controlled skids that day so i get a full turn and a half and back tires land right in the gravel PERFECT!!!! I start mashing that pedel and rocks start going everywhere! But im going straight and that was the goal so i go with it. I notice im on left hand side of the road wondering is there anybody else out there hungry too I SURE HOPE NOT! Then i remember the HUGE curve in the road so left side of road is a GREAT IDEA! IM just sliding along TRYING to steer and here its is ANOTHER HILL! solid sheet of ice and how i got over it in the first place is beyond me i have no idea. Im mashing that pedel car wa wa wa w awwa wa wa im hitting the limiter and trying to dig down deep for anything i can find to get over this hill...and it creeps up FANTASIC!!! i slide down it then i remember i have fire plug in front yard what if i hit that? NOT GOOD! Im creeping along brakes lock down seeing people walking dogs etc PRAYING! that no one steps out in front of me i have no control ya know. Right infront of my house is a melted spot best sight i have seen all morning! Lots of tree in neighborhood so ice doesnt melt very well. Drieway all ice there wasnt a whole bunch i could do to get in so i left it in driveway half way out in the road. I mean what could i do its ice. Look down at cig in mouth and not a ash fell off and its all burned to the end lol! I wont even drive when it is even raining anymore....I still dunno how i got almost out of here but it was a lot easier then getting back home.

[Just Whisper]

Frosty, I am just laughing my butt off. The whole cigarette thing at the end was perfect. I can't believe you ended up back to the house after all that. Did you ever get to eat after all that?

[Just Whisper]

Okay, so as mentioned earlier... I do have a humiliating experience from 4th grade. I actually had many of them in my life. Not many of the girls liked me in school. I was small and scrawny, wore glasses, had ADHD, and a bad attitude (due to all aforementioned deficits). So the girls never missed a chance to make me look stupid, for which I gave them many opportunities. There was a 5th grade boy I had a crush on. I wrote him a note telling him how much I liked him and planned on giving it to him in person. I chickened out and while I was in the bathroom I tossed into the trash can. It happened to be full at the time, so my note sat on top of the heap of paper towels. After I left the restroom, one of the fifth grade girls picked up the note and read it. Of course she happened to be in this boy's class. The girl gave the note to her teacher, who to my horror read it out loud to the entire class. I never could look that boy in the eye after that. Why would a teacher humiliate children like that? What goes through their heads? I never lived that down.

[Frosty]

Frosty, I am just laughing my butt off. The whole cigarette thing at the end was perfect. I can't believe you ended up back to the house after all that. Did you ever get to eat after all that?

After the sun really started beating down on the ice my bro comes up with a great HEY! I have front wheel drive! IM like ok lets try again and the only thing opened that still has power is Mcdonalds. We saw all the stop lights out and grocery store was closed and we are not eating any more spaghettios on a open fire...And i dont care what anybody says but peanut butter and mustard on wheat sandwich...well it taste LIKE CRAP! We get to the drive thru and he looks at me and goes WHAT! 12 dbl cheese burgers and 6 mc ribs? I go uhhh no. I hear dont worry i got this i can afford it. I tell him DUDE NO! i cant eat that much and he smurks and i think hes just joking NOPE! at the window and he says exactly that! We get home start eating and i think im 3 mcribs in and a couple burgers thinking this cant be good for me but im tired of putting odd things together in the kitchen to eat so this is a gourmet feast! Power pops up then off then on then off then it stays on and bro goes im putting this in the fridge! His eyes were bigger then his stomach. 5 days with no power Im telling ya a NIGHTMARE! I HATE THE ICE!

[Sickie Ickie]

Jeesh JW. That teacher was someone who got off on embarrassing kids all right!

When I was in elementary school I was really good in Math. I could add, subtract, multiply and divide before I entered school.

Anyway I had this one teacher who handed out a ditto sheet (remember those?) and we had to do the math on it. I was done before the rest of the kids were even on row two. I handed it in and she said I must have gotten all the problems wrong because there was no way that I could have answered all of them that fast.

So- in front of me- she threw it away and handed me the same sheet over again.

Not to be outdone, I did it again and handed it in.

Same thing happened.

I decided right then and there that math wasn't worth it to me and to quit trying.

Forward to me now 40-ish, and I suck at math! heh

[Just Whisper]

And THAT, folks, are just a few of the reasons that I have no use for most of the teachers in our society.

[Frosty]

Ok when i say fights above remember i never went looking for a fight but if i got punched or whatever. It was defense i hate violence and this story will show it.

I had a few teachers just like that! I think they are everywhere! I even had one that did the same thing with the test. Thats a another story though i dont dont want to tell that now its not very funny its kinda sad when ya think about it too long so.....and be the geeky guy in school can lead to great things! if your skills are honed...Read below

I was a geeky guy in high school too and there was a few us we made our own group we didnt really fit in anywhere but no one really messed with us and we saw A LOT! of bulling I think we just thank god that it wasnt us. Im not one to sit around and watch someone get tortured either. Well we were class clowns we didnt act up anymore in class but we still had skills and when used for good its something else. Well i been seeing this guy get pick on and picked and PICKED ON! He made straight A's nothing wrong with that and i kept watching his face everyday i mean these guys just tortured this guy and a lot of times i wish he would of jumped up and beat the crap out of him but the bullies would of just smashed him into pieces. You have to pick your battles ya know?

One day i was thinking yeah i could go over there and fight with him but i remember some advice i got years ago "It will just make matters worse for this guy"

So i think someone has to take some of this guy heat off him. So im thinking he needs distraction i mean they really broke this kid down bad(i think they stole his sole). I didnt think of the word distraction at the time though that word was not in my vocab. So i jump out of my chair and start doing a crazy jig elbows flying feet moving on the floor so fast yelling yeah buddy yeah buddy over and over. Then i think how long am i supposed to do this right. EXACTLY! The longer the better the more disturb they will think i am right OF COURSE! It genius really what im doing. (I mean i can take mental abuse im class clown through and through nothing really bothers me) I earned a new name that day JIG! Hey it took some of the stress off that kid its ok i been called worse. "Learn any jigs there ayuk yuk yuk?" Yeah im working on one laugh it off its ok no biggy ya know. They could blow smoke up my butt all day i mean They knew me as the JIG! :)

I have more of using our HIGHLY honed skill of being the class clown again too but thats another time. We only brought them out of retirement when duty called :)

[Sickie Ickie]

I learned early on to make friends with the biggest kid I could find every school time- it helped people stop picking on me when they knew that one of my "buddies" could kill'em.