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A thread of childhood memories

The point of this thread will be to poast childhood memories...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/10/20
Did you ever find out why your dad was yelling at your broth...
Low-t resort
  08/10/20
No. It was probably something trivial. He could have a bad t...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/10/20
when i was young we split time between a rural farm and new ...
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/10/20
wow
irradiated flatulent dingle berry
  08/11/20
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Multi-colored Sable Friendly Grandma
  08/11/20
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Stimulating bistre address french chef
  08/12/20
you tell great stories
dashing keepsake machete
  08/12/20
No fucking way
disgusting sex offender
  08/12/20
legit. i realized this when i figured out my memories basic...
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/12/20
is this farm in pennsylvania? anyway, it's obvious the in...
frisky coiffed bawdyhouse
  08/12/20
I mean it’s being described as on “the island&rd...
Stimulating bistre address french chef
  08/12/20
key west or tahiti then.
frisky coiffed bawdyhouse
  08/12/20
lmao
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/12/20
this is pretty cool if true. i don’t think my imaginat...
Swashbuckling Theatre Famous Landscape Painting
  08/12/20
the proverbial not flame. i was really young and man i had ...
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/12/20
I had a friend down the street. His name was Tyler. Tyler an...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/10/20
peak life experience?
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/10/20
Not really. Kind of forgettable. A neighbor lady saw us and ...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/10/20
is there a peak life experience from that time? because lay...
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/10/20
I'll have to think on that and maybe provide some details in...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/10/20
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Awkward Gaping Circlehead
  08/11/20
I think he's a rancid shitlib now
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/11/20
One of my favorite movies as a kid, I've seen it at least 15...
Vibrant travel guidebook
  08/12/20
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Fear-inspiring Federal Stag Film
  08/10/20
My parents got divorced when I was very young. My mother dat...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/10/20
that's terrible, brother.
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/10/20
Damn, that's awful. Surprised your stepdad didn't kill the d...
Low-t resort
  08/11/20
Sounds like your stepdad got what he deserved
soul-stirring demanding old irish cottage nowag
  08/11/20
what did you do when he started molesting you
Talented Tanning Salon Elastic Band
  08/12/20
180 thread In middle school we were learning about how ou...
Floppy canary den
  08/11/20
180
Heady Potus
  08/12/20
We flew to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. This may have been my...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/11/20
lol
Heady Potus
  08/12/20
I was 10. Actually, it was damn near my 10th birthday. My mo...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/11/20
Tyler and I were in cub scouts together. I remember we start...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/11/20
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Awkward Gaping Circlehead
  08/11/20
Anna died of a drug overdose when she was a senior in high s...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/11/20
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Awkward Gaping Circlehead
  08/11/20
Thanks brother. I assure you that it was not my intention t...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/11/20
I encouraged you in that other thread to share these and I&r...
Low-t resort
  08/11/20
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Fear-inspiring Federal Stag Film
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lascivious khaki property incel
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dashing keepsake machete
  08/12/20
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Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/12/20
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person yo...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/12/20
excellent thread. thank you for sharing.
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/11/20
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lascivious khaki property incel
  08/11/20
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Slippery State
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confused angry kitchen
  08/11/20
Not really a story, but a few vignettes about the kids I gre...
Slippery State
  08/11/20
I really liked your thoughts on Nick. I think we all knew so...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/11/20
I actually never had Indian food until after college, so it ...
Slippery State
  08/12/20
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Fear-inspiring Federal Stag Film
  08/11/20
i remember i was doing pvp in runescape and the battle laste...
Supple Dead Principal's Office
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irradiated flatulent dingle berry
  08/11/20
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Fear-inspiring Federal Stag Film
  08/11/20
lmao
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/12/20
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irradiated flatulent dingle berry
  08/15/20
great thread idea. my father worked in sales with some cl...
Wine set
  08/11/20
I can get with this sentiment. I also love long drives, but ...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/11/20
very true. have you ever done an overnight drive? for me, th...
Wine set
  08/11/20
I have had an experience or two that’s vaguely similar...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/12/20
road hypnosis is real especially on those long highways.
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/12/20
i love this poast. can so relate.
Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant
  08/12/20
Great thread. Thank you for poasting. I'll share some of...
Mind-boggling Jet Laser Beams
  08/11/20
Ah, to be Level 1 again, heroes...
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lascivious khaki property incel
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dashing keepsake machete
  08/12/20
I love these flashes of memory that you don't know why they ...
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  08/12/20
I set a bush on fire with one of the naughtiest kids in the ...
Insecure Puppy
  08/12/20
When I was a young teen my family took a trip to Greece over...
Olive autistic goyim
  08/12/20
In 6th grade my bros were talking about going to an AOL chat...
Talented Tanning Salon Elastic Band
  08/12/20
Um.
Slippery State
  08/12/20
By the time I got to middle school, I was so excited to play...
fiercely-loyal hominid
  08/12/20
you're a very good writer
dashing keepsake machete
  08/16/20
180 thread
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  08/15/20
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  08/16/20


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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:26 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

The point of this thread will be to poast childhood memories and take comments and questions. My goal will be to share one or two childhood memories a night.

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I have very vivid memories of going camping as a child. I remember how musty the tent would smell. I remember the crunch of the leaves underfoot and the smell of decay and rotting acorns all around. I remember we would gather wood to build a fire. I also remember how, if I had to go to the bathroom, my dad would point off into the woods and hand me a roll of toilet paper and say, "here, just go over there in the woods."

Well one time, I had to go, so I wondered over to a fallen tree a few hundred paces away, sat down, and just let loose. As I finished, I looked up and notice that my dad was yelling at my brother. I don't know what he had done, but it was something very bad because my dad was losing his temper.

To this day, I don't know why I did this, but I started wondering off in a different direction. Sure enough, I went a couple hundred more yards and I could no longer hear them. I could just hear a road, somewhere off in the distance. A busy road. Then I realized I was lost.

I panicked. I dropped the toilet paper and began running. I'd run like 100 paces. Then stop. Then turn right or left. Then run some more. Then I started screaming.

Eventually I did find the big road. The cars were whizzing past. It scared me. I took to the woods and followed it up and eventually found a road leading into the state forest. Then I followed that road. Eventually someone pulled over and stopped and asked for me by name. I said yes.

That was when I learned that I had caused a big stir by getting lost in the woods and not coming back. I got a stern lecture.

When I got back to my dad and my brother, they were both calm. Not glad to see me. But calm. My dad said something like, "well, that must have been scary!"

It was terrifying.

On the way home he stopped at a drug store and bought my brother a pack of Marvel cards and got me a TMNT Raphael action figure.

We never talked of the time I got lost ever again.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735552)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:33 PM
Author: Low-t resort

Did you ever find out why your dad was yelling at your brother?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735595)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:33 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

No. It was probably something trivial. He could have a bad temper.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735602)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:45 PM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

when i was young we split time between a rural farm and new york city. i remember the farm very well and pass it all the time when i'm visiting the island. how it came to be under our care is a long and interesting story that maybe i write about one day. anyways.

i remember there was a brook that ran through it and had trees and we had all kinds of animals. horses, goats, and the thousands of chickens. i had a childhood friend. 2 of them, "el indio" the indian and "el colorado" the redhead. i still keep up with el colorado. i have all this memories of playing games in the fields with both. we would go swimming in the water hole. climb trees. throw rocks. chase caiman. all types of hillbilly stuff.

fast forward 30 years later. i'm talking to my parents about colorado and how he's doing, etc. we're chatting they're happy he's doing well and all that. and then i go "i always wondered what happened with el indio. he was great. i don't remember much about him." my father flatly says "who?"..."el indio, the kid who used to come to play on the farm with me"..."the only kid who came over to the farm to play was colorado because we knew his parents. it was just you and him."

i sat back and thought and thought. i made him up. he was my imaginary friend. i realized this when it occurred to me that i have zero memories of him and colorado and i together. it was always either me and el indio or me and colorado.

some of my best memories from my childhood were a figment of my imagination.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735663)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:13 PM
Author: irradiated flatulent dingle berry

wow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742109)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:20 PM
Author: Multi-colored Sable Friendly Grandma



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742136)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 12:09 AM
Author: Stimulating bistre address french chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742346)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 7:59 AM
Author: dashing keepsake machete

you tell great stories

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743221)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 8:03 AM
Author: disgusting sex offender

No fucking way

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743232)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 2:56 PM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

legit. i realized this when i figured out my memories basically were a caricature of an indian boy. like i remembered him wearing leather loin cloths with like beads and whatnot like he was some lenni lenape young brave in a comic book. also, i have no memories of his voice. i made him up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40745296)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 8:05 AM
Author: frisky coiffed bawdyhouse

is this farm in pennsylvania?

anyway, it's obvious the indian was real. your dad probably accidentally shot him and buried him on the land. they don't want you innocently mentioning this kid to the cops so they are denying his very existence. you need to solve this case.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743239)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 10:33 AM
Author: Stimulating bistre address french chef

I mean it’s being described as on “the island” and there are caiman

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743683)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 10:34 AM
Author: frisky coiffed bawdyhouse

key west or tahiti then.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743686)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:12 AM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743891)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 9:42 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Theatre Famous Landscape Painting

this is pretty cool if true. i don’t think my imagination is strong enough to make figments of it seem real years later

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40747568)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:45 PM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

the proverbial not flame. i was really young and man i had vivid memories. but then i looked back on them like "holy shit...i made this kid up."

and my dad's point made sense. our farm was really remote. the only neighbor remotely close with kids my age was colorado's parents. so like wtf would this other kid come from? i laugh about it. strangely, i don't mind that it was all in my head. it was nice anyways.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40748185)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:51 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

I had a friend down the street. His name was Tyler. Tyler and I were pretty inseparable. We'd go and take his bb gun into the woods and shoot and things and play down by the creek.

Well, I remember I heard about kids daring one another to lie in the street. (Here is an example of those news items: https://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/19/us/not-like-the-movie-a-dare-leads-to-death.html )

Well one day, I dared my friend to go do this. We took turns. We'd do it, then a car would swerve and honk at us, and we'd run into the woods. Did it on a couple of places along the road. I never really understood why we did this. I never saw the movie The Program, but just heard about it as something that cool kids did.

Tyler had a younger sister who died at 17 from a heroin overdose. He also lost his mom to breast cancer when he was in high school. I think he was kind of set adrift after all of that.

Here's the movie scene that all of this was based on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiPCmKvgDQo

I didn't see this until years and years later.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735715)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:54 PM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

peak life experience?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735753)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:56 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

Not really. Kind of forgettable. A neighbor lady saw us and ratted us out to Tyler's folks, who dressed us down pretty good. Then Tyler's dad invited me to stay for dinner. We had corn and chicken and iced tea. They always drank iced tea in that house.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735764)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:58 PM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

is there a peak life experience from that time? because laying in the road feels pretty cheating death level interesting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735780)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 10:01 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

I'll have to think on that and maybe provide some details in a future episode.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40735801)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 12:55 AM
Author: Awkward Gaping Circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40736554)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 8:14 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

I think he's a rancid shitlib now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40737057)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 12:01 AM
Author: Vibrant travel guidebook

One of my favorite movies as a kid, I've seen it at least 15 times. Watch it every few years around football season start. This is the first time I've ever seen this scene. Obviously knew about it, but had never seen it before.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742322)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 9:52 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Federal Stag Film



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Date: August 10th, 2020 10:47 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

My parents got divorced when I was very young. My mother dated many other guys. Some of them were cocaine addicts. Some of them were beaten down salesmen. She settled on a man who was a tortured soul who loved music and nightclubs. Notably, he also had a cocaine problem.

When those two eventually got married, he was very adamant about getting a dog. In his mind, every family should have a dog. At the time, perhaps because he was wondering how he was going to score some cash for his next pile of blow, he would take us all to the dog track and he would bet and drink Lite and buy me peanuts.

Then one day he decided that the family should adopt a Greyhound. In his mind, Greyhounds were these cool dogs that could run fast and were an amazing sight to behold. He gave little thought to the fact that greyhounds trained for racing typically have a very tough go of it the first years of their lives and are all irreparably broken and mean.

On the first night the dog was in the house, it was in a corner, and I was playing around on the floor. I wasn't messing with the dog at all, but I got too close and it jumped up and mauled me, biting my face, tearing my flesh in my scalp from the top of its pointy snout, and ripping a gash along my eyebrow with its angular mandible, filled with razor sharp teeth.

My parents took me to the ER to get sewed up and my new "Dad" just kept blaming me for provoking the damn dog. He didn't believe me that I was just fooling around by myself and not messing with the dog at all.

Two days past, and the dog went after the Big Tough Guy. Bit his hand, viciously. He had to have like 18 stitches, and afterward he always had numbness and loss of feeling in his middle and ring fingers.

We got rid of the dog after it bit him. Not after it bit me, but after it bit him. That's when I learned the saying "a dog only gets one free bite."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40736015)



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Date: August 10th, 2020 11:35 PM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

that's terrible, brother.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40736248)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 12:49 AM
Author: Low-t resort

Damn, that's awful. Surprised your stepdad didn't kill the dog.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40736544)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:12 PM
Author: soul-stirring demanding old irish cottage nowag

Sounds like your stepdad got what he deserved

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742106)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 3:02 PM
Author: Talented Tanning Salon Elastic Band

what did you do when he started molesting you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40745322)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 9:22 AM
Author: Floppy canary den

180 thread

In middle school we were learning about how our area was active during the underground railroad and about the same time my friends and I were obsessed with Goonies, so there was a long time we were sure we'd find some secret tunnels.

At a local public school none of us attended, we snuck into the basement and one of us found a small, hidden door. We scurried along the dark corridor until Brian found a bag of weed. Not knowing anything about drugs, we brought it to school thinking we had discovered some long-lost snack dropped along the way by a runaway slave and gave it to our history teacher. She never corrected us and we never heard anything more about it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40737220)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:17 AM
Author: Heady Potus

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743920)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 9:30 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

We flew to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. This may have been my first time on a plane. Maybe not, but maybe. I don't really remember the airport.

I remember going to see my relatives. I remember the tree lined streets. I remember the baking sun. I remember my dad dragging me out to Saddleback Mountain and making me hike with him. I remember getting really tired. Then he carried me. Then I especially remember when the trail narrowed and he put me down and said, "now you need to hug the wall and follow me."

I was scared to death. I could hardly move. I remember him dragging me along. I remember my shoulder hurting. I remember crying.

I have no memory of the descent. All I remember was being out of my mind. Screaming into the thin desert air. Petrified with fear.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40741498)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:08 AM
Author: Heady Potus

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743869)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 9:37 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

I was 10. Actually, it was damn near my 10th birthday. My mom and stepdad rented an old A-frame house with a loft in the mountains. I stayed in the loft with my brother.

During the day we rented a pontoon boat and went tubing until my brother and I were both burnt to a crisp. Then we ate hot dogs and hamburgers until we were full. And then, we went back on the boat, and did a long ride to the part of the lake where they were shooting off fireworks. It was magical. That boat ride in the twilight. Then, the night ride back.

Once we got back to the A-frame, my brother noticed that “Back to the Future” was on TBS “Dinner and a Movie.” We watched that movie, perhaps for the 6th or 7th time. And about the time old McFly socked Biff right in the kisser, we slinked up to the loft.

I remember my brother wanted to play truth or dare. That night, he admitted to me that he had kissed a girl named Kaileigh.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40741527)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 9:59 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

Tyler and I were in cub scouts together. I remember we started as lions, then bobcats, then tigers.

We’d meet for our meetings up at the First United Methodist Church up at the intersection. It wasn’t a very old church. Kind of boring and bland. I don’t know if you’ve been in a FUMC, but they are sparse inside. I remember my family even went there for Christmas Service one year, and I knelt my head and hair into my candle during Silent Night. Stinking up the pew and infuriating my mother, likely high on cocaine.

In any event, I think by the time we were Tigers, Tyler and I went on an overnight camping trip somewhere. I don’t think we shared a tent, but we certainly laid out our sleeping bags close to one another and whispered secrets to one another way past lights out.

I remember how Tyler told me that his dad was really hard on his sister Anna. I remember how he told me that Anna never seemed to follow the rules. I remember how he said that he wanted to stand up for Anna, but that he felt like he never could. He wasn’t strong enough to take on his dad.

At this point in my life, I too felt helpless. I loved my friend Tyler. I felt like he understood what it was like to live in a world where you didn’t have any control.

In the end, Tyler lost Anna. And I lost my brother.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40741676)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 10:03 PM
Author: Awkward Gaping Circlehead



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Date: August 11th, 2020 10:06 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

Anna died of a drug overdose when she was a senior in high school.

My brother killed himself. He was found hanging in the closet of a cheap apartment. His pants were around his ankles. The police said it was a case of erotic asphyxiation gone wrong. He had track marks all up his arm.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40741708)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 10:12 PM
Author: Awkward Gaping Circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40741734)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 10:44 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

Thanks brother.

I assure you that it was not my intention to seek sympathy with this thread. I realize that I've posted far more sad than sweet stories, perhaps 5:1, and I know it probably seems that way. I'm going to think about my content going forward.

The real purpose of this thread is just supposed to be a middle-aged bro looking back on his childhood in reflection, and sharing those thoughts with others.

This is no pity party. It's just an exercise in self actualization.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40741927)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 10:54 PM
Author: Low-t resort

I encouraged you in that other thread to share these and I’m glad you did. You’ve got a good voice. It helps to remember sometimes that we go through tough shit and come out on the other side, for better or worse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742027)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:00 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Federal Stag Film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742060)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:51 PM
Author: lascivious khaki property incel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742275)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 8:05 AM
Author: dashing keepsake machete



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743237)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:14 AM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743898)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 4:22 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.”

-Stephen King, The Stand

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40745817)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 10:07 PM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

excellent thread. thank you for sharing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40741711)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:51 PM
Author: lascivious khaki property incel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742276)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 12:03 AM
Author: histrionic hyperactive garrison fat ankles



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742328)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 1:04 AM
Author: Slippery State



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742510)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: confused angry kitchen



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742071)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:05 PM
Author: Slippery State

Not really a story, but a few vignettes about the kids I grew up at the house until I was 12.

Nick: Nick was a few years older than me and not really right in the head. Biggest memory is him holding the end of a BB gun to my temple when I was around eight and just laughing hysterically while I wept. I was at my cousin's graduation party a few years ago there (my aunt and then-uncle eventually bought the place), and Nick just showed up, because he was still living at home in his mid-30s. Nick died last year. I don't know of what, but when the obituary of a 40 year old lists one of his favorite activities as "playing high school football", that's really sadder than nothing at all.

Samir: Samir might have been the only Indian kid in town. I have no idea what his parents did. Or at least what his Dad did. His Mom, as far as I could tell, spent her days watching Inspector Gadget on the couch and never acknowledging our existence. She also must have cooked up a storm, because that place always had such an alien smell, which was probably just curry. Anyway, Samir integrated into American pop culture as well as a 10-year-old Indian could, because he somehow got his hands on various House of Pain and Wreckz-N-Effects albums by pilfering various Columbia Record Club 12 CD packages that would appear around the neighborhood. He really, really loved the Rumpshaker video.

I also need to write about Kyle and Tyler.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742075)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:44 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

I really liked your thoughts on Nick. I think we all knew someone like that growing up.

I had a couple of Samir experiences growing up too. At least in the sense of walking into the house of some foreign kid and being assaulted in the nose by the pungency of all those strange cooking smells. Probably just curry, but in the 1990s, curry powder was like special C—a strange and exotic thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742218)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 12:58 AM
Author: Slippery State

I actually never had Indian food until after college, so it probably wasn't really that bad. Just completely naive to it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742481)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:46 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Federal Stag Film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742235)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:10 PM
Author: Supple Dead Principal's Office

i remember i was doing pvp in runescape and the battle lasted almost an hour and just shaking w adrenaline the whole time and then losing (probably lost 5M gp worrh of shit) and feeling super demoralized and then getting up from computer and noticing that I had pissed my pants at some point during the fight which made me feel way worse about everything

anyway after that i stopped playing runescape

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742095)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:15 PM
Author: irradiated flatulent dingle berry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742119)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:45 PM
Author: Fear-inspiring Federal Stag Film



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742229)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:17 AM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743918)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:49 PM
Author: medicated native clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40748202)



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Date: August 15th, 2020 11:00 PM
Author: irradiated flatulent dingle berry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40762645)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:19 PM
Author: Wine set

great thread idea.

my father worked in sales with some clients in vegas. in the early to mid 90s, he’d have to drive there from california once a month for work, and he’d occasionally take me with him (sometimes with my mother and sometimes without). those trips are some of my most vivid memories. alternating between motown cassette tapes and desert am radio. passing through small-town gas stations. laughing whenever we passed zzyzx road. guessing the temperature before we passed the big thermometer in baker. stopping at the state line casinos and knowing we were almost there. the whole thing was just so familiar and comforting after a while. i rarely left the town where i grew up, but i knew every mile of that drive by heart.

to be sure, the stays themselves were also memorable; the casinos’ family-friendly phase meant that it was the best time for kids to visit. but i remember the drives just as vividly. i loved spending time with my father, and i just loved being on the road. it began my lifelong love of long drives. i had no problem driving 8 hours every other weekend to see my long-distance gf in law school or regularly driving 12 hours to visit my hometown friends after i moved away. it’s hard to describe, but it’s such a great feeling to connect both with a destination and with the journey that brings you there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742132)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:41 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

I can get with this sentiment. I also love long drives, but I don’t like coming back. Also, a big thing is what time of day you are driving. It is amazing to get up early and leave before dawn and watch the sun come up over the land as you drive along. It is something else entirely to try and log miles while the hot August sun beats down upon you at 3:30 during the dog days of summer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742196)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:57 PM
Author: Wine set

very true. have you ever done an overnight drive? for me, they’re pretty surreal in a cool way. there were a few weekend trips home when i left work at 5:00 pm on friday before driving 12 hours straight through mostly desert. the hours of total blackness and the lack of sleep felt like taking a mild drug or something. listening to a weird podcast compounded that feeling. i would normally never listen to anything like limetown, but it felt easier to suspend pretense and enjoy myself listening to the whole podcast continuously on one nighttime drive (same thing with a couple of other podcasts).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742304)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 7:39 AM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

I have had an experience or two that’s vaguely similar to this. Certainly I have done some late night driving. This isn’t something that I find particularly safe. I get how it can put you into an altered state.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743177)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:20 AM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

road hypnosis is real especially on those long highways.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743935)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:19 AM
Author: Aquamarine Bossy Brunch Immigrant

i love this poast. can so relate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743928)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:29 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Jet Laser Beams

Great thread. Thank you for poasting.

I'll share some of my childhood memories in the future.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742151)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:44 PM
Author: azure contagious abode queen of the night

Ah, to be Level 1 again, heroes...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742226)



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Date: August 11th, 2020 11:52 PM
Author: lascivious khaki property incel



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40742283)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 8:10 AM
Author: dashing keepsake machete



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743245)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 10:39 AM
Author: Fragrant parlour headpube

I love these flashes of memory that you don't know why they are so persistent. And most of them mean "nothing" they are just interesting set pieces that, for some reason, resonate.

I have a ton of these, but one that just jumped to mind when reading the one above about driving with their Dad.

I was probably about 10 or so-- maybe younger. My Dad was taking me fishing down the Delaware Bay. Of course, we left the house really early and we were driving at dawn, sun not quite risen. We were driving down this dirt road to get to the boat launch. Jive Talking by the Bee Gees was on the radio. I remember hundreds of toads hopping along this road. All over the place. Being worried about killing these toads.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743714)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 10:52 AM
Author: Insecure Puppy

I set a bush on fire with one of the naughtiest kids in the neighborhood. Then I climbed a tree and hung out there for a while hour while the fire department came and my dad was maf trying to find me.

I tried to blame it on spontaneous combustion but that didn't really fly.

Then this kid wasn't allowed to play with me anymore because his parents thought I was a bad influence. This is a kid who once caught a cat and smashed it against a rock to see if it would survive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743777)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 11:03 AM
Author: Olive autistic goyim

When I was a young teen my family took a trip to Greece over the Summer. I had no idea one of the most formative memories I would hold with me forever was to unfold.

It was oppressively hot, the way only the Mediterranean sun beating down on a desert island knows how to be in August. The evening air provided little comfort to locals and tourists - all who were beginning to spill out from restaurants after dinner, their tight cottons gripping their glistening skin, on to the coastline desperate for relief. Through the thick malaise there was one young group of cheerful Greek teens goldened from another Summer on the island. Like the rest, the teens were begging for any release they could, without much hope. That is, until one of the group couldn't take it anymore.

She smiled a coy smile as she glanced around the boardwalk... and her gaze then locked with mine. She traced her hands down her stomach to the bottom of her already soaking white tank top and peeled the layer off over her head, setting her perfectly perky breasts free to take a desperate breath. Her friends half giggled something in Greek then stopped abruptly. One more nervous laugh. then. the rest of her friends peeled off their tops revealing their bodies for the sea's refreshing spray. More laughing turning into elated yelling into the clear night. They dive into the ocean drenching themselves in relief.

As we strolled past, they emerged from the waves onto the sand, nipples all erect from the cold salt water and a slight breeze coming through. The coy smile returned as she found my eyes again - she knew she had imprinted a memory of her perfect body on me forever.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40743843)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 3:00 PM
Author: Talented Tanning Salon Elastic Band

In 6th grade my bros were talking about going to an AOL chat room called "gif" and pinging people and they'll give you free porn. This was before you could get porn easily bc there wasn't really "internet" in most cities so much as user silos belonging to Compuserve, AOL, etc.

So I went to "jif" sites like the Peanut Butter trying to find it. They'd said it was "jiff 1" "jiff 2" etc. Never specified how to spell it. Took me weeks before I came across an image ending in "gif" and realized that must be how you spelled it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40745317)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 9:37 PM
Author: Slippery State

Um.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40747534)



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Date: August 12th, 2020 10:45 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal hominid

By the time I got to middle school, I was so excited to play middle school football. I thought that this was the coolest thing.

What I didn’t fully understand was that after-school practices meant that I would have to rely on my parents to come and pick me up after practice. I also didn’t fully appreciate that, since school had ended several hours before, the school would oftentimes lock its doors so you couldn’t go up there to use the phone.

As a result of this situation, there were several times when I emerged from the field house tired and sweaty from my quick shower, scan the parking lot, and realize all too late that I didn’t have a ride home that day.

One time, my stepdad made a really big deal about me waiting for him to pick me up after practice. I think it was my mom’s birthday or something and he wanted to have a special outing.

So I waited. And I waited. And I waited. Nobody ever come. As the afternoon really started to come on, at 6pm or so, I started walking the 8 miles back to my house. Along the way, some kids in a pick-up drove really damn close to me on the shoulder of the road, honked their horn, and someone from the bed of the truck hit me in the back of a head with a full can of beer. It hurt like a mother fucker.

I remember walking along after that and feeling so ashamed. Then, in the failing light of the afternoon, I looked down at the ground. Picked up the beer and pulled the tab. It foamed up a bit, but then I took a long cold drink of the beer. Things felt a little better after that.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40747851)



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Date: August 16th, 2020 12:37 PM
Author: dashing keepsake machete

you're a very good writer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40764381)



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Date: August 15th, 2020 10:44 PM
Author: mustard narrow-minded church building volcanic crater

180 thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40762604)



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Date: August 16th, 2020 1:00 PM
Author: irradiated flatulent dingle berry

Set some newspapers and dried up weeds on fire with neighborhood kids using this big-ass telescope. Parents weren't pleased (esp since I was doing it on our driveway)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4601239&forum_id=2#40764432)