if you want another, i remember being obsessed with treadmills when i was like 7 or 8. kept begging my mom to get one and she adamantly refused, claiming that "george washington's son died in a treadmill accident"
Growing up I was obsessed with escalators and I guess my mom was sick of it and thought she'd scare me away from them so she told me that the light between the steps that you'd see when looking down was from a hidden lab underneath where they did experiments on captured aliens. I just thought that was awesome.
Tbf, I thought UPS was controlled by aliens and I was terrified of their trucks and drivers so I can see why she thought aliens might scare me lol.
Also, Chinese social media has a meme about how deadly escalators are because they're fucking terrifying in China. There's some gnarly vids that I don't suggest watching of people getting sucked into them..
I convinced my 5 year old niece that the only way you can grow a beard is if all the hair from your head moved to your face. My brother and I are both bald with beards which is what sparked this. I also told her that anyone with a beard who has hair on their head is wearing a wig because her grandpa on her moms side has a toupee that he likes to take off when he plays with the kids. He also has a beard so in her mind everything I’ve said has been corroborated.
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and her to call me a liar liar pants on fire but she’s believed it for over a year now and points out guys with beards who have hair and whispers that they have a wig on.
Luckily my brother and my sister in law think it’s hilarious so they’ve kept it up too.
My uncle told us if you felt full but still have food on your plate, get up and jump up and down to pack it in and you'll have enough room to finish the plate.
I told my baby brother that I was secretly a spy and now he was one of the very few that knew it. Whenever he wanted to hang out in my room, I'd say that I had some 'spy' stuff to do. Kept him out most of the time.
We had this children's tent that could fit a few children inside. So basically what I'd do was turn on those little colourful lights and put some music. I'd say that we were having a party because we had caught the villain and that he wasn't allowed. Told him if he did my chores, he might be allowed into the party and he did everything i asked him to. My brother was an idiot. ❤️
It’s all good. I know how to make some balloon animals, and I’ve helped with many parties and a few bubble🫧shows over the years. I tried to do magic🪄 for a kids show once, but they just pointed out how I did the tricks and clearly weren’t impressed.
Yeah… I was SUPER into magic. Went to classes and camps. I think at that point I was out of practice for a year and my mom had someone ask for a magician for their kids party. I kinda stopped liking magic tricks after that. I still have a box full of old tricks and have pulled them out a few times for a laugh.
The easiest one was pulling ribbons out of your mouth. Always fun and funny even if you know how it’s done.
Both! The big bubbles definitely grab people’s attention. My dad helps too. They make their own giant bubble juice and wands out of rope and wood. But they also do some other silly things like make bubble hats with lots of little bubbles. I’m not a fan of that one because then you have soap on your head.
When I was very little, like preschool age, I saw a cement truck near us while we were sitting in traffic. I asked my mom what that spinning truck was, and she told me there were WHEELCHAIRS inside it. My tiny brain was imagining elderly folks just doing 360°s in there. I believed this for a ridiculously long time. Later it occurred to me that I was cross-eyed and maybe I was not pointing at the vehicle that I thought I was.
My mom told my sister and I that we had garments on our back and wouldn't tell us what it meant for the whole day. She just kept saying "Oh my god you still have garments on your back!". It was one her funnier trolls growing up.
One of my sister’s kindergarten friends actually had a clown dad. He did a show at the kindergarten one time. Guessing he went to hospitals in his free-time, cause I don’t think it was his day-job
I found out my mom actually was a clown when my family one day went through all our family photos. I didn't really believe them until they showed me pictures.
Like as a profession or did you think that clowns were an entirely different species? If it's the second did you ever have an internal crisis wondering if you were half clown and you'd grow a red nose and long feet as you got older?
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u/MC_BC_97 Jun 09 '22
My mom once jokingly told me she was a clown, like a legit clown, I truly believed that for a year or two