Most memorable childhood memories
Most memorable childhood memories




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I don't think I ever actually told my Dad though
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A sweet memory that's always stuck with me is a friend I had in Primary school and I remember we were having art lessons and suddenly he turned to me and said he was going to marry me one day. I said something along the lines of 'get real' but he insisted that he was going to marry me. He was so dorky and his comically serious expression just brings a smile to my face.
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Ah the poor chap ... you probably scarred him for lifeRuqeeD wrote:A sweet memory that's always stuck with me is a friend I had in Primary school and I remember we were having art lessons and suddenly he turned to me and said he was going to marry me one day. I said something along the lines of 'get real' but he insisted that he was going to marry me. He was so dorky and his comically serious expression just brings a smile to my face.



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I remember that I hated it when my grandad put his false teeth in when he was going out, he never wore them in the house, so when he put them in and smiled at me I used to scream bloody murder!
I also liked to catch frogs from the bottom of the garden and put them in my mums bed, hehe!
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This just reminded me of something, I wasnt a kid but shortly after I was married we lived in an 8-plex, and every morning the neighbor would come over and bum a cigarette. Once in a while is ok, but every morning gets kind of old after a while. I made a special one for him, I took one and put horsehair in it and gave it to him one morning. I guess he got the hint, he never bummed any more after that.


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I just carry cigarette loads around with me.Bighuey wrote:I put turtle food in my dad's pipe tobacco can one time, dried bugs and stuff, but he never noticed it. At least he never said anything.
This just reminded me of something, I wasnt a kid but shortly after I was married we lived in an 8-plex, and every morning the neighbor would come over and bum a cigarette. Once in a while is ok, but every morning gets kind of old after a while. I made a special one for him, I took one and put horsehair in it and gave it to him one morning. I guess he got the hint, he never bummed any more after that.![]()

Growing up in the boonies, we had a creek to play in every summer, and a pond to skate on every winter. I just took it for granted at the time, but now I realize how cool that was....no wonder I hate suburbia.
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Just love these expressions "Growing up in the boonies", have read it many times in books, not entirely sure what the boonies are though, just sounds cool.Tralala wrote:I just carry cigarette loads around with me.Bighuey wrote:I put turtle food in my dad's pipe tobacco can one time, dried bugs and stuff, but he never noticed it. At least he never said anything.
This just reminded me of something, I wasnt a kid but shortly after I was married we lived in an 8-plex, and every morning the neighbor would come over and bum a cigarette. Once in a while is ok, but every morning gets kind of old after a while. I made a special one for him, I took one and put horsehair in it and gave it to him one morning. I guess he got the hint, he never bummed any more after that.![]()
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Growing up in the boonies, we had a creek to play in every summer, and a pond to skate on every winter. I just took it for granted at the time, but now I realize how cool that was....no wonder I hate suburbia.


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"The boonies" or the "Boondocks".Ant wrote:Just love these expressions "Growing up in the boonies", have read it many times in books, not entirely sure what the boonies are though, just sounds cool.Tralala wrote:I just carry cigarette loads around with me.Bighuey wrote:I put turtle food in my dad's pipe tobacco can one time, dried bugs and stuff, but he never noticed it. At least he never said anything.
This just reminded me of something, I wasnt a kid but shortly after I was married we lived in an 8-plex, and every morning the neighbor would come over and bum a cigarette. Once in a while is ok, but every morning gets kind of old after a while. I made a special one for him, I took one and put horsehair in it and gave it to him one morning. I guess he got the hint, he never bummed any more after that.![]()
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Growing up in the boonies, we had a creek to play in every summer, and a pond to skate on every winter. I just took it for granted at the time, but now I realize how cool that was....no wonder I hate suburbia.![]()
A great word.
The boonies or the boondocks are the backwoods or really rural areas that aren't highly populated. Normally they're considered less sophisticated than city areas and sometimes they're even looked at as being backwards or old fashioned. I live in a boondock state here in the USA.

Actually... there's a childhood memory. When I was really young, maybe 4 or 5, we lived in a neighborhood that was really out of the way. Behind the last house in the culdesac there was a hay field and after all of the hay had been rolled into bales we would cross our neighbors backyard into the field and fly kites or play/fish in the creek. That was a real paradise. Come to think of it... I can't recall a time that I've flown a kite since then.
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