The Dangers of Childhood
Numptydumpty
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I've been wondering how I ever survived my childhood, it was so fraught with danger!
Picking dandelions would make me wet the bed!
Picking birds eyes, (those little blue flowers with a white centre, I think a type of speedwell) would cause the birds to fly down and peck my eyes out!
Almost anything I touched or picked up was likely to take my eye out!
Going outside with wet hair would almost certainly cause me to get pneumonia! ( actually I did get pneumonia as a child, but don't think I'd been outside with wet hair :? )
If I accidentally swallowed chewing gum, it would stick in my stomach indefinitely and give me appendicitis !
If I pulled a face and the wind changed I'd stay like it! (I think that one actually happened to me :oops: )
Any time I saw an ambulance, I had to remember to hold my collar or the next one would be coming for me!
If I didn't blow out all the candles on my birthday cake with one puff my wish wouldn't come true!
No matter how careful you are, some things it seems, can't be avoided. I never once made my knuckles crack, and I've still got arthritis! Just my luck!
Numpty
Picking dandelions would make me wet the bed!
Picking birds eyes, (those little blue flowers with a white centre, I think a type of speedwell) would cause the birds to fly down and peck my eyes out!
Almost anything I touched or picked up was likely to take my eye out!
Going outside with wet hair would almost certainly cause me to get pneumonia! ( actually I did get pneumonia as a child, but don't think I'd been outside with wet hair :? )
If I accidentally swallowed chewing gum, it would stick in my stomach indefinitely and give me appendicitis !
If I pulled a face and the wind changed I'd stay like it! (I think that one actually happened to me :oops: )
Any time I saw an ambulance, I had to remember to hold my collar or the next one would be coming for me!
If I didn't blow out all the candles on my birthday cake with one puff my wish wouldn't come true!
No matter how careful you are, some things it seems, can't be avoided. I never once made my knuckles crack, and I've still got arthritis! Just my luck!
Numpty
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If you picked your nose your finger would get stuck there forever.
Whoever ate the most Yorkshire pudding would get the most meat. (A canny ploy to fill everyone up before the main course.)0 -
Eating carrots would help you see in the dark
Eating crusts would make your hair curly0 -
Having my mouth washed out with soap!
Buying strawberry laces which were long enough to use as a skipping rope before eating them.
My school sandwiches which as my mum would only buy bread once a week had holes cut in them by the end of the week where the bread had gone mouldy.
On a more serious note my school friend and I once ignored warnings from our parents not to use an alley as a shortcut on our way to school. We of course ignored this until the day we got chased after by a man. We were terrified but didn't dare tell our parents as we were even more scared of getting into trouble for disobeying them!0 -
I was told if I picked my nose, my head would cave in. :shock: And once when I bent over my mum's friend said "Oh Kathleen, your legs go right up to your bum" Where else would they go?0
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Don't mess with swans cos they could break your arm :shock:
he who smelt it, dealt it0 -
tjt6768 wrote:Don't mess with swans cos they could break your arm :shock:
But they can. http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-24008,00.html0 -
Lol.
Did you read all of them?0 -
Don't eat pips because you will grow an apple / cherry/ grape / melon plant in your tummy. I'm still trying.
I clearly remember this one: 'Your body changes every seven years so you will be free of asthma very soon.' I wasn't. Mum lied.
Thanks to my parents 'Mother' Nature screwed me over but she got one thing right - I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Mind you, I would have enjoyed using this line: 'Mr Softee is playing that tune because he's run out of ice cream.' Now that would have been fun.DD
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Eating your carrots to give you good eyesight was a good one in our house, my sister was as blind as a bat, also eat up your greens to make you big healthy and strong being only five foot one and the rest is history :P xx0
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Thanks guys I enjoyed this lot.
DD I really did use the ice cream van one MAY times on my lot
Love
Toni xx0 -
If we walked over a smelly drain (and there were quite a lot that were in the '50s, my Mum would always insist I held my breath then spat out afterwards. These were the only occasions she ever spat. Yet we all happily paddled in seawater with sewage outlets nearby :shock:0
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I love this..but all mine have been said..
like you say how on earth did we survive
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If we stood on the cracks in the pavement we'd fall down into a massively deep hole never to be seen again!
Hopscotch - you didn't dare put the wrong leg down at the wrong time or some horrible (always unspeakable) fate would come your way.
Chaps - this will mean absolutely nothing to you.
Ladies - you'll all be smiling and nodding.
If we didn't clean our teeth they'd fall out. I didn't and some of mine have gone; the majority of what's left are either filled, or crowned.
GraceB0 -
Oh - just remembered horrifying situations.
We used to go and use the local playing field to play on - out of sight of parents. Kids now play right outside their houses.
And, we'd go off on our bikes for hours on end with just a bottle of squash and a marmite sarnie. My parents had no idea where I was for about 5 hours at a time during the school summer holidays.
GraceB0 -
Drinking water makes lions strong and therefore I should drink it too. Not sure if the same applies to eating an entire raw zebra0
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If you stood on the cracks between the paving stones the bears would get you!
My daughter's childminder every December told her that
a: everytime they saw a robin it was checking on which children had been good or naughty for Father Christmas
b: if you saw a helicopter overhead Father Christmas was in it.0 -
LignumVitae wrote:Drinking water makes lions strong and therefore I should drink it too. Not sure if the same applies to eating an entire raw zebra
It could be a cure for arthritisI guess we'll never know.
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Enjoyed reading all the sayings from childhood my Nan's favourite was when she wanted us to go outside in the drizzle and see what grandad was doing in the shed, and we moaned, said "you're neither sugar or salt you won't dissolve"0
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DianeB wrote:Enjoyed reading all the sayings from childhood my Nan's favourite was when she wanted us to go outside in the drizzle and see what grandad was doing in the shed, and we moaned, said "you're neither sugar or salt you won't dissolve"
Oh come on, Diane. You can't leave us all wondering. Why did she want to know what he was doing in the shedWas it just a ploy to get rid of you all
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Most of the time Stickywicket it was to get us out of the kitchen, because something was due to come out of the oven. I enjoyed making the rusty nails water for putting around the hydrangea, can't remember which colour flowers it gave either blue or pink as he had one of each.0
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I can't think which way rusty nail water would turn hydrangeas. I remember copper is for blue, but iron :? No idea. I got slung out of science classes at a very early age
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