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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Oct 10, 2023 17:48:05 GMT -5
~lighthearted thread, nothing too serious, please~
My folks thought it was a great idea to take me to see Poltergeist at like at 6. Needless to say, I didn't sleep for a week and refused to look at myself in the mirror in case I started picking my face like the chicken drumstick dude.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 10, 2023 18:27:53 GMT -5
I did a dumb thing once. I was looking on the internet at ghost photos, when one site got me with a screamer. My oldest heard me laughing at myself. He asked me what was funny, and I explained it to him. He wanted to see it but I initially told him no. Eventually he convinced me he was a big boy and could handle it. He wasn’t wrong, mind you. He could handle it. So how did I do a dumb thing?
Well, I didn’t notice that the two little ones came in behind us and unlike their brother absolutely we’re not big enough boys to not get the bejeezus scared out of them. The youngest had nightmares for a few days.
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Post by ERON on Oct 10, 2023 18:52:17 GMT -5
When I was just a wee tot, my dad got the bright idea to take me to an air show featuring daredevil pilots plummeting toward the ground only to pull up at literally the last second, followed by a Pearl Harbor reenactment complete with massive pyrotechnic explosions.
Cue 40+ years of recurring nightmares in which I watch helplessly as planes fall out of the sky and explode into flames in front of me.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 11, 2023 8:00:31 GMT -5
I got a few of these,but they turned out odd.
When I was 3 it was summer and my older cousin was staying with us for the summer. Him and Dad wanted to go see TCM(original of course) at a near by drive in. Mom was at a Tupperware Party. They figured I would fall asleep on the 20 minute drive to the theater.
Nope I stayed awake. Get to drive in,and all I really remember of this night is 2 scenes from the film. Been told I stood up on the front seat watching the movie and loving it.
Get home,mom fusses cause Gallos is gonna have nightmares for weeks.NOPE I spent months telling everyone about this amazing movie I saw.
21ish years later I met Gunner,original Leatherface,told him this story and he gave me an odd look like "WTF who takes a 3 year old to see this movie".
With my two sons I waited till they were older to show them the movie.
Oldest saw it when he was 12 or 13. Youngest was 9.
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 11, 2023 8:29:24 GMT -5
I still lived with my father when I adopted the cat I recently had to put down after 18 years together. That Christmas, my dad decided to play it cheap by getting a miniature tree, the type you can put on a coffee table. I tried to warn him I didn’t think it was a good idea with a kitten in the house. By Christmas Day that tree was ready to be out out of its misery from being yanked over so many times, I think Charlie brown’s tree looked better. And I’m not sure what it says about my upbringing, but it brought back a lot of boyhood holiday memories to hear my dad randomly shout “Git outta there you idiot!”
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Oct 11, 2023 10:11:26 GMT -5
Oh yeah, they also played 'Nightmare on Elm Street' when I was ten. I think they were trying to scare me to death.
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Post by ayumidah on Oct 11, 2023 12:39:03 GMT -5
My parents (Glen + Brenda) seriously considered naming me Glenda for awhile.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 11, 2023 14:56:10 GMT -5
My parents (Glen + Brenda) seriously considered naming me Glenda for awhile. I feel your pain. My mother wanted to name me Harry. Which does not work at all with my last name. Thankfully my Dad stepped in. Hint Gallos is a close Spanish translation of my last name. |
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Oct 12, 2023 7:07:23 GMT -5
My parents (Glen + Brenda) seriously considered naming me Glenda for awhile. I feel your pain. My mother wanted to name me Harry. Which does not work at all with my last name. Thankfully my Dad stepped in. Hint Gallos is a close Spanish translation of my last name. If I had the last name Beaver or Balzac it would take an act of god not to name my kid Harry. |
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 12, 2023 8:39:27 GMT -5
One summer the house needed to be repainted. Mom begged my dad to hire a professional, or even get the house sided so it would never need repainting again. Dad went it cheap and insisted in doing it himself. He ended up falling off scaffolding, broke both ankles, fractured his spine, and got himself concussed. He spent dud wend in the hospital and has a metal implant in one leg to this day.
The back injury left him with nagging pain. When I was in my early 20’s dad decided to replace the pool with a hot tub to help ease his back pain. He dismantled the deck and used scraps from it to make a platform to put the hot tub on. He filled it with sand and put tiles on it-not considering how sand settles when a weight is placed on it, so the hot tub was lopsided and the water was higher on one side. On top of this, he didn’t want to pay the bill for running the tub 24/7 and he tried draining it that winter-only for water in the pipes to freeze and burst. That permanently screwed the hot tub up and it frequently leaked or malfunctioned after that. Eventually he gave up and left it there to rust. Sufficed to say, my brother and I tease him about the whole saga to this day.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 12, 2023 10:14:35 GMT -5
I feel your pain. My mother wanted to name me Harry. Which does not work at all with my last name. Thankfully my Dad stepped in. Hint Gallos is a close Spanish translation of my last name. If I had the last name Beaver or Balzac it would take an act of god not to name my kid Harry. Years ago ,and I saw the tour bus parked in the parking lot with the name painted down the side,There was a youth minister that traveled all over the gulf coast. He would get up talk to the kids and teens. then had a choir of 15 or so girls that would come sing for a bit. Ok sounds normal for the area... yep. The dude's real name... Harry Butts. Buddy down the road from me went to that church and so I asked him "so how do they refer to the choir. Is it the Harry Butt's Girls choir? Or Harry Butt's and his Girl Choir?" Can't remember what he told me they called them. but Harry Butts!! My kids their names were thought about for allmost 7 months. After seeing what a few off the males on my father's side went through when family didn;t think and named their kids odd stuff. |
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Oct 12, 2023 10:56:42 GMT -5
If I had the last name Beaver or Balzac it would take an act of god not to name my kid Harry. Years ago ,and I saw the tour bus parked in the parking lot with the name painted down the side,There was a youth minister that traveled all over the gulf coast. He would get up talk to the kids and teens. then had a choir of 15 or so girls that would come sing for a bit. Ok sounds normal for the area... yep. The dude's real name... Harry Butts. Buddy down the road from me went to that church and so I asked him "so how do they refer to the choir. Is it the Harry Butt's Girls choir? Or Harry Butt's and his Girl Choir?" Can't remember what he told me they called them. but Harry Butts!! My kids their names were thought about for allmost 7 months. After seeing what a few off the males on my father's side went through when family didn;t think and named their kids odd stuff. Could have been worse, his name could have been Dixon Butts |
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 12, 2023 12:20:11 GMT -5
I remember being in 5th grade and coming home from school super pissed...don't even remember why. It had been raining off and on for the whole week and my dad was like "you need to burn off some steam. Go run around in the rain and get some fresh air. You'll feel better."
About 3 minutes later I'm laying in the mud with a broken leg because I slipped in the aforementioned mud and fell.
Good advice Dad.
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Post by edgestar on Oct 13, 2023 19:05:19 GMT -5
I remember being in 5th grade and coming home from school super pissed...don't even remember why. It had been raining off and on for the whole week and my dad was like "you need to burn off some steam. Go run around in the rain and get some fresh air. You'll feel better." About 3 minutes later I'm laying in the mud with a broken leg because I slipped in the aforementioned mud and fell. Good advice Dad. At least you got fresh air!! I went to middle school with a girl, a year younger than me. Her name was Adore Bell... |
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Post by chrom on Oct 13, 2023 19:10:01 GMT -5
I remember being in 5th grade and coming home from school super pissed...don't even remember why. It had been raining off and on for the whole week and my dad was like "you need to burn off some steam. Go run around in the rain and get some fresh air. You'll feel better." About 3 minutes later I'm laying in the mud with a broken leg because I slipped in the aforementioned mud and fell. Good advice Dad. Take it he didn't get a Father's Day card for the next couple years. |
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Post by schma on Oct 13, 2023 21:20:29 GMT -5
I remember being in 5th grade and coming home from school super pissed...don't even remember why. It had been raining off and on for the whole week and my dad was like "you need to burn off some steam. Go run around in the rain and get some fresh air. You'll feel better." About 3 minutes later I'm laying in the mud with a broken leg because I slipped in the aforementioned mud and fell. Good advice Dad. That is pretty damned impressive. I once went running toward a huge puddle, slipped and ended up sliding through it on my back. Breaking a leg slipping in a puddle though sounds like quite the feat. |
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 13, 2023 22:44:31 GMT -5
My Mom and I both enjoyed sci-fi films, and I'd seen R-rated films before.
Which is how we ended up seeing Event Horizon in the theatre when I was 12.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 14, 2023 9:10:50 GMT -5
Ok one that time frame and region didn't make it that mind boggling to me back then.
Father is a hunter,deer mostly. So as far back as I can remember we had hunting rifles in the house. By the time I was 5 he was teaching gun safety. How to clean a rifle and break it down.
My 8th birthday I got a single shot 410.And would go with Dad every November and December and compete in Turkey Shoots.
Turkey Shoots,realizing some might have no clue,are when you pay like a buck to enter. There is a paper target you shot at. Whoever gets closest to the bullseye wins a turkey.
But yea 8 year old me was given a shotgun for my birthday. Thinking about it that is the only firearm I have owned.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Oct 14, 2023 13:45:34 GMT -5
Ok one that time frame and region didn't make it that mind boggling to me back then. Father is a hunter,deer mostly. So as far back as I can remember we had hunting rifles in the house. By the time I was 5 he was teaching gun safety. How to clean a rifle and break it down. My 8th birthday I got a single shot 410.And would go with Dad every November and December and compete in Turkey Shoots. Turkey Shoots,realizing some might have no clue,are when you pay like a buck to enter. There is a paper target you shot at. Whoever gets closest to the bullseye wins a turkey. But yea 8 year old me was given a shotgun for my birthday. Thinking about it that is the only firearm I have owned. I think the only times I fired a gun was as a young Boy Scout. Bear in mind that I have a form of muscular dystrophy. Firing .22 rifles was one thing. Shooting clay pigeons with a shotgun was another. The real kicker was firing a muzzle loader. Holy hell, that was something. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 14, 2023 15:12:40 GMT -5
Ok one that time frame and region didn't make it that mind boggling to me back then. Father is a hunter,deer mostly. So as far back as I can remember we had hunting rifles in the house. By the time I was 5 he was teaching gun safety. How to clean a rifle and break it down. My 8th birthday I got a single shot 410.And would go with Dad every November and December and compete in Turkey Shoots. Turkey Shoots,realizing some might have no clue,are when you pay like a buck to enter. There is a paper target you shot at. Whoever gets closest to the bullseye wins a turkey. But yea 8 year old me was given a shotgun for my birthday. Thinking about it that is the only firearm I have owned. I think the only times I fired a gun was as a young Boy Scout. Bear in mind that I have a form of muscular dystrophy. Firing .22 rifles was one thing. Shooting clay pigeons with a shotgun was another. The real kicker was firing a muzzle loader. Holy hell, that was something. I would go target shooting with dad off and on. Then my time in the Army fired off a pile of firearms and rifles and the like. Use to be every hunting season would go help him make sure his scope and stuff was set right. And with open sights see how my aim was. Still pretty good. But yea some of the rifles and stuff if you can't brace yourself properly it will knock you on your ass and possibly majorly harm ya. If you don't count shooting snakes,we get moccosains causse of the water on 3 sides of the property,I haven't fired any gun in almost 2 years. Including snakes it has been about 9 days. Had a big snake laying between the storage unit and the carport. Got it with the 22 rifle we keep by the front door. |
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