re: Share a random memory from your childhood.

When I was in either the 2nd Grade (early 1976) or the 3rd Grade (early 1977) there was a hard freeze. There was about 3-4 foot wide shallow, drainage ditch in which there was about 2 inches of ice. I wore some cowboy boots to slide down the ditch. My classmates showed up at school the next day in boots wanting to compete with each other.

Man, that was a cold snap. I remember my brother and I were walking to school and a guy was trying to get the ice off his windshield with a pot of hot water and seeing the windshield split in a couple of places after he poured the water.

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Man, my brother and I had each a one. Played with that toy for such a long time.

We also had a pair of trikes like these, Hot Seat:

When I was about 6-7 we went to Mr. Dupre's camp in Cocodrie. My older brother caught a hard head catfish and just left it on the dock to bake in the sun. About an hour later I got a bucket and put some water in it. I put the dried up catfish in the bucket and was moving it about. All of the sudden the catfish came to life jumped out of my hands and stuck me straight in my breast bone. That was the most painful thing I ever been through, broken bones included. My mom cooked me a SPAM spaghetti and I felt better a few hours later.

One more: When I was around 11 I was feeling ill one night and I decided to sleep in the guest bedroom. I woke feeling really nauseous and was on my back. All of a sudden, I threw up and ensued a vomit volcano. I had not moved in time and it fell right onto my face.

Wiped off what I could and crawled to the bathroom to finish puking and clean up my face.

I grew up in Hickory Ridge subdivision in the late 80s/early 90s.
One day over summer brea someone landed a hot air balloon in the neighborhood & all the kids were invited to ride in the basket up & down, about 100 feet.
Started out with about 10 kids on bikes in the area & soon enough there were over 100 of the neighborhood kids within an hour.

Ended up being a great summer with all the kids meeting each other & riding bikes, hanging out, & playing sports in the open fields & big back yards. I miss living there.

My buddy and i were digging a hole in the neighbors yard. My friends older sister (no pics) told us if we dug too deep we would find the devil. Scared the hell out of us.

I fell in the 17th Street Canal separating Orleans and Jefferson Parishes as a 6 year old.

Used to play BB gun wars but one time this a-hole used a pellet gun and shite me. Son of a bitch pellet got lodged in my calf cause the fricker pumped in like 15 times

I was gushing blood for a while

Getting in a fight playing smear the queer

Maybe was 11 or somewhere around that. There was an old church building that was just up the street and it was on a hill, so it's yard was a steep hill that me and some buddies set up ramps to ride our bikes down on and hit the ramp then take a hard turn right (bunch of blackberry bushes setting up a way between the house and church yard), go up the hill again and repeat.


I don't remember if I got too much air or just the brakes quit working on the crappy bike I had, so I went straight off the ramp and jumped off the bike head first into the bushes. Had scratches and thorns all over my body.