Things you thought you could do when you were a kid

[DulwichFox]

When I was a kid, I went up to Crystal Palace Mast because I thought would I be able to go up to the top.

I was really disappointed.

Foxy

[Seabag]

I jumped off the garage roof with a towel tied around my neck like a cape, arms out to make a wing.

I'd taken the precaution of putting a mattress on the ground.... and for a second or two I flew

Then splat, straight onto the floor and my knees hit me under the chin, so I near bit through my tongue.

Did I learn my lesson? Nope, I went higher from the bathroom window and got that spangly stars tingling feeling in my head and almost passed out.

I laid there, calling my Mum (who'd come into the bathroom by then) "I've broken my leg" to which she stuck her head out of the window, gave one dismissive shake of her hand and told me to wait, as she's washing her hair.

After about 5 minutes, my leg miraculously mended and I'd got up and gone out to meet my mates. I gave up that particular stunt after that. But many other's featured after.

It's amazing how those things prepare you for later life, in the risk over reward department.

[KidKruger]

Cut a bruise out, like it's on a peach.

Oh sooooooo wrong.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Make a wish.

[Milan05]

Squirrel away food and sweets to use as emergency supplies when the concept of the Thames flooding was always in the news..

[oliviaandmilo]

2nd, that making a wish with that Chicken wing that my Nan always seemed to make sure I got!

[KidKruger]

In our family it was the wishbone used to make a wish.

[uncleglen]

Dig to Australia...our garden was full of very deep holes as a result

[Lynne]

Pass O level maths

[Robert Poste's Child]

I was thinking of making a wish when you blow out the candles on your birthday cake and when you catch a dandelion clock seed in the air.

I always hoped to meet a genie or fairy who would grant me three wishes but it never happened. I would have gone for the self-replenishing bag of sweets from an E Blyton story, a puppy and an endless supply of interesting books. Actually that still sounds about right.

[steveo]

'I jumped off the garage roof with a towel tied around my neck like a cape, arms out to make a wing.'

Good story S Bag and full marks for refusing to take gravity seriously.

My brother jumped off the garage roof and went through the coal bunker lid. Like you, his tongue bore the brunt of it

[Loz]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> In our family it was the wishbone used to make a wish.

Us too. And I always wanted a really big teddy bear. I remember that, every time I got the big end of the wishbone, making the exact same wish month after month, year after year. And did I get my really big teddy bear? No I did not.

Fecking dead chickens. Useless.

[joom]

When I was about four I remember running up to my mum and telling her that I could see the air! I think I'd been staring into the middle distance and the moisture on my eyes was swirling around...

[steveo]

What did the air look like?

[Seabag]

KidKruger Wrote:

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> In our family it was the wishbone used to make a

> wish.

I eck, thee we're lucky. In my day we used to wish that we had a wish bone.

Them were 'ard days!

[stringvest]

Things I thought I could do age 4-8:

1) Make my own perfume with rose petals in a jar with water, the contents would turn into a jar a mould slime.

2) Swim the channel, got as far as end of pier and returned by life guards.

3) Cross the channel on a lilo " " "

(Several attempts made to get to France under my own steam, by myself, whilst holidaying on the south coast)

4) Keep a random flea-like garden insects as pets.

5) Roller skate down the brockley jack.

6) Make a house from twigs on an island in a pond and live there undiscovered for ever.

7) SING, dance and play instruments and be tuneful !!$%^&

8) Get rich returning empty bottles or selling bunches of weeds to old people.

9) One day own my own milk float.

10) Abandon the Brownie camping group and find my way home from Beaconsfield at night.

[oliviaandmilo]

I can't believe I put chicken wing!!!! (Laughing)I meant wishbone too. Thanks all X

[DulwichFox]

joom Wrote:

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> When I was about four I remember running up to my

> mum and telling her that I could see the air! I

> think I'd been staring into the middle distance

> and the moisture on my eyes was swirling around...

They are called Floaters. You can see them when you look at a bright blue clear sky.

DulwichFox

[siousxiesue]

I was friends with a deaf girl and just signed random stuff but we managed to spend time together having fun! I thought she was just making signs I didn't really get the concept of sign language

[teddyboy23]

Middle finger works best

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Merrythought is the archaic name for wishbone.

Wish I'd known that as a kid - less disappointing.