Topic: Childhood Memories

Remember complete sentences

Topic: Childhood Memories

Remember complete sentences

I broke a window playing baseball in my backyard.

We broke the same window, in the same under construction house, four times before the builder showed up one day and threatened to kick our m-fing asses if we broke the wndow one more time playing baseball.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So we broke the m-fers window with a rock instead!

I gave my 18 month old brother stitches because he jumped on the end of my bed when I didn't want to get up.

Locking my parents out of the house when I was 5.

I got a plastic Winnie the Poo head stuck around my head.

I lived a couple blocks from a lake and would spend my summers swimming at the beach and fishing off of people's piers.

Banging my sisters head into a table.

I remember sitting in old Comiskey Park as an almost 4 year old watching the South Side Hitmen.

Breaking my arm when I rode my bike too fast down a hill when I was 6.

Got neck stuck in turnstyle at Walgreens, followed by 3 day stay at hospital.

Packing eleven playings in a station wagon with the bat bag and equipment bag while playing in the Bronco traveling league.

Fractured my toe when I was 7, falling off the monkey bars at school.

Summers with all my aunts and uncles and grandparents at cabins in Eagle River, Wisconsin

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When I was four, I got a table shaped like a turtle for Christmas.

Petulantly asking my mother why we had to go outside in the snowstorm of 1967 to get food for my baby sister (or as I referred to her, "that pig").

 

Placing a baseball glove over the fingers of the cast on my broken left arm while learning to throw right-handed (due to my broken left arm).

 

Watching my dad slip, fall, and break his wrist while we played hockey on the frozen schoolyard across the street from my house.

I remember the thrill of breaking in a new mitt. The rubber bands and glove oil. The forcing my hands to try and close it. Sleeping with it under my pillow.

I remember going to see the cast of "That's Incredible" when they stopped in Michigan City on their train tour of the USA.

I was remembering the coal mine at the Museum of Science and Industry

I remember watching the Space Shuttle fly over my backyard on the way to landing at Ellington Air Force base on top of a 747 for a refueling.

I remember trying to make fossils out of dirt pies and leaves.

i remember AlphaDog and I fighting over the Commadore 64

I remember being on a plane to Texas for the first time, and as we were about to land at Hobby Airport they announced that Ronald Reagan had been shot.

I remember being on a plane to Texas for the first time, and as we were about to land at Hobby Airport they announced that Ronald Reagan had been shot.

 

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