Best/Worst Times as a Kid

#79
#79
Okay, here we go. Mama had a reaction to the steroid injection she was given for an allergy to the sizing chems put in fabrics. I didn't understand the implications til I was grown and working in healthcare. Docs here basically said she was nuts : Nobody was allergic to Cortisone. Our next door neighbor was a pilot. He chartered a plane to get Mom to Atlanta. She was a GA Baptist grad. They took her immediately. She still almost died; so I am told. Relatives came to take my brother and me to GA. They had to enroll us in school. I was 2nd grade, my brother was K. We were there 3 months.

Best: It snowed in Gordon, GA. Enough to make snow angels and fling balls at the side of the house.
Better: My brother had sniffles. GA aunts didn't understand snow and wouldn't let him outside. Good deal, he was always a nuisance.
Worst: At that age, I still did not get why Mom wasn't there.
 
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Juanita said:
Okay, here we go. Mama had a reaction to the steroid injection she was given for an allergy to the sizing chems put in fabrics. I didn't understand the implications til I was grown and working in healthcare. Docs here basically said she was nuts : Nobody was allergic to Cortisone. Our next door neighbor was a pilot. He chartered a plane to get Mom to Atlanta. She was a GA Baptist grad. They took her immediately. She still almost died; so I am told. Relatives came to take my brother and me to GA. They had to enroll us in school. I was 2nd grade, my brother was K. We were there 3 months.

Best: It snowed in Gordon, GA. Enough to make snow angels and fling balls at the side of the house.
Better: My brother had sniffles. GA aunts didn't understand snow and wouldn't let him outside. Good deal, he was always a nuisance.
Worst: At that age, I still did not get why Mom wasn't there.
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:oops: Wasn't a lot of boredom in your childhood.......
 
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So, I was a witch of a preteen in Junior High (that's before they started calling it Middle School.) I demanded a bedroom that was not across the hall from my parents.

Best: They put me downstairs in the den on a blow up mattress.
Worse: My scalp was itching. I thought it was a scab from a recent run in with a tree limb. I picked it off.
Worst: It wasn't a scab; it was half of a tick. About the size of my thumbnail. I ran screaming upstairs. Took Mom awhile to get the tick's head out of my head. They didn't let me sleep downstairs anymore.
 
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Hmm. Worst was being the oldest, and only son, but being smaller than my two sisters until I turned 15 or 16. They could pick on me all day, and parents didnt say anything because I was older and a boy. But as soon as I gained an upper hand it wasnt fair and parents got involved. One sister is 6 years younger than me and she was still bigger.

We were not close at all.

Best, getting picked up from school in the 5th grade to go to the Grand Canyon. First time to the canyon, and first time flying since I was a kid. Also got to see Vegas.
 
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Not your fault. Girls develop faster than boys. We have to take the upper hand when we got it. I envy your trip to the canyon. Never been and always wanted to go.

Best: I was 29, yes, I was still a kid. And game. We flew out of Atlanta to Vail. I had never skied before.
Worst: After one day with an instructor on bunny hills, my "friends" put me on a black diamond slope.
Even worse: I skied through the barrier, off the side of the mountain. I was buried waist deep in powder, thinking that my legs were broken. Friends were fussing about who was going to find a shovel.
 
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Juanita said:
Not your fault. Girls develop faster than boys. We have to take the upper hand when we got it. I envy your trip to the canyon. Never been and always wanted to go.

Best: I was 29, yes, I was still a kid. And game. We flew out of Atlanta to Vail. I had never skied before.
Worst: After one day with an instructor on bunny hills, my "friends" put me on a black diamond slope.
Even worse: I skied through the barrier, off the side of the mountain. I was buried waist deep in powder, thinking that my legs were broken. Friends were fussing about who was going to find a shovel.
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I was the smallest kid in class until that same time. I was 5'0" 100lbs as a freshman. Grew to just under 6' and about 150 by senior year.
 
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Being small does not equal being stupid. When you are little, you just have to priss more.

Granddaddy had an above knee amputation. He got permission to drive his golf cart anywhere on the town streets. He'd load up all the grandkids that could hold on, and drive us to the Handy Andy for candy. All he wanted was a Mounds bar and a Mountain Dew.

Best: The store was air conditioned.
Worst: None.
 
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Okay, one more about Granddaddy. Although he was physically impaired, he was a great fisherman and enjoyed it, immensely. I have eaten my weight in Bream. So, when he said he'd take me out fishing, I was so pleased and proud. Said we'd have to get bait first, and he hobbled out the back of the house.

Worst: When he shook that Catawba tree, those yellow and black worms fell off the leaves and down the back of my neck. Beyond gross.
Best: He almost fell down, laughing.
Better: Caught 5 fish and didn't have to throw any back.
 
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Juanita said:
Okay, one more about Granddaddy. Although he was physically impaired, he was a great fisherman and enjoyed it, immensely. I have eaten my weight in Bream. So, when he said he'd take me out fishing, I was so pleased and proud. Said we'd have to get bait first, and he hobbled out the back of the house.

Worst: When he shook that Catawba tree, those yellow and black worms fell off the leaves and down the back of my neck. Beyond gross.
Best: He almost fell down, laughing.
Better: Caught 5 fish and didn't have to throw any back.
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There is a large Catalpa tree in the side yard of a property ~1/2 mile from my home.
 
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Worst - lived in a tent for 6 months. Then a trailer with no AC or heat with the floor falling through until I went to college. Having to clean office buildings with my dad at 3 in the morning before I went to school in MS and HS.

Best - no longer being a kid.
 
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zooguy said:
Worst - lived in a tent for 6 months. Then a trailer with no AC or heat with the floor falling through until I went to college. Having to clean office buildings with my dad at 3 in the morning before I went to school in MS and HS.

Best - no longer being a kid.
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That's borderline depressing. You should have been petted more.
 
#98
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2 neighbor boys liked to play pranks on me. Mom said: It's because they like you. Guys, will you ever learn that girls don't really like stupid stuff?? Got tired of answering the door for taxis and pizza delivery that weren't ordered from our house.

Home was in the woods. 2 lots next door had not been built on yet. It was pretty secluded. High school kids used to come up there to park and whatever. I decided to pick up all the used condoms I could find to stuff those boys' mailboxes full.

Worst: The only gloves I had were cotton. YUK!
Best: Those boys' moms never found out who did it.
 
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Best: Riding 3-Wheelers all over Madison County, TN with 5 of my best friends........or..........the one single round of golf I got to play with my dad and both grandfathers.

Worst: Growing the eff up!:mad:
 
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