My friends and I would be playing in our front yard and then as soon as we noticed a car coming down the street we would freeze in place. We totally thought that the people driving by would think that we were statues.
I was positive that I could fly. I would only remember my flying sessions after taking a nap so I would pray that God would let me fly all the time, not just when he wanted me to be able to.
I, too, used to push my cat around in a doll stroller.
My younger brother (by 2 years) and I would dress up in each other's clothes thinking that our parents would be fooled.
My brother and I thought that we would take over the world just like Pinky and the Brain. We had a secret hideaway where we stashed supplies like a brick, some clam shells, a piece of scrap carpet, and a random piece of wood under a lilac bush.
Post by jennysmitten on May 8, 2014 23:34:53 GMT -5
I used to think I could fly like Mary Poppins if I caught enough air under an umbrella.
My best friend and I tried to make peanut butter in the microwave.
My sister and I would switch clothes, convinced that we were tricking our parents into believing we were the other.
I also made my sister pull me around the yard in our radio flyer wagon. It is astonishing how many pictures my parents have of me being carted around. Lol
My friend and I made up an NKOTBesque song about a flying mummy. We were convinced it would be an instant hit and were drafting letters "to Hollywood." We performed it for my friend's grandma and we were sooo excited when she said that she thought she had heard it on the radio. It didn't make us pause and wonder how that could be possible since we hadn't recorded it.
The lyrics I can remember:
"The mummy's out and he's gonna get you, The mummy's out and he's gonna get you. He flies through the night, Looking for his preyyyyy... Uh huh, heyyyyyy."
My friend and I would throw a fake wedding and I'd dance around and marry god.
I saved all of my chewed gum for like a year and made a big ball out of it.
I put a bunch of pennies in the shirt pocket of my favorite stuffed animal and took it to Sunday school. I gave everyone in my class a penny and thought they loved me so much for it. A penny. I was ballin.
When my friends would stay the night we always made lists of what we were going to do. It was usually this:
1. Stay up late 2. Watch the babysitters club 3. Act like teens (wth)
And the most weird - I pretended I was Tori Spelling. All the time.
Remember the scene at the end of Annue where she was hanging from the old railroad track and Punjab was rescuing her with a helicopter? I used to hang from my neighbors deck stairs while dressed like Madonna.