Thursday Thirteen #8

Thirteen Things About Me As a Kid (I guess you can call it the Mis-Adventures of Poops' Mom)

1. 5 years old: Snuck out of parents' house early in the morning with my cousin, in our nightgowns, went up the road to the neighbors' house who weren't home, ate their food, and played with their toys. Were met coming down long driveway, by frantic, angry mom.

2. One by one, slid down front of various cars covered in snow in driveway with sister and cousins. Wasn't a problem until choosing to slide down convertible, and the last one in our line fell through fabric, ripping a gaping hole in convertible. Blamed it all on him.

3. Discovered sitting behind couch with cousin, breaking parents' cigarettes in half.

4. Tried to paint mudpies "brown", you know, to make them more realistic, by using brown stain. Friend's angry father had to remove brown stain from tiny hands using turpentine.

5. With same friend: Mixed it up by sledding down hill and through swingset, lying flat, flying fast through swingset underneath the see-saw. Friend slid too close underneath see-saw and cut her eye open requiring stitches. Friend's parents didn't like me anymore.

6. Convinced sister mudpies were hamburgers. She believed me and ate one.

7. While playing Superman with a little neighbor boy, thought I had huge feats of strength. Became stranded hanging off the top of a 6 foot wall leading down to basement. Rescued by father with bag of Doritos.

8. Talked incessantly in class, but still got good grades, which made some teachers furious. One teacher found a note I wrote to a boy as a joke, and used it to blackmail me into silence in her class. I caved and told my parents.

9. Ate an entire bunch of bananas at neighbor-friend's house and threw up for the rest of the day. To this day, cannot stand smell of banana anything.

10. Stayed up the whole night looking out window trying to spot Santa. Swear to this day I heard sleigh-bells.

11. Loved loved loved loved loved, The Dukes of Hazzard.

12. Taped the "Weekly Top 40" radio show every week, and wrote down the names of the songs and the artists in order. In hindsight, this was very important to me and I still don't know why.

13. Put my tooth under my pillow TWO nights in a row, just to see if the Tooth Fairy would come twice. And she did! And this time she left a 5!

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