Memories

Subject: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:13 am

Some folks are lucky. They can remember being mere babies. I can only remember back to being 3. One day, I wandered into the woods of the Olympic Forest trying to trail other children who lived on the base. I heard my mother calling and headed for home on a dead run. I didn't even stop when a mud puddle sucked the shoe right off my foot. When I reached my mother, she made me show her where I lost my shoe. She pulled it out of the mud, spanked me all the way back home and sent me to bed without any lunch.

How far back do you have memories?

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:25 am

My mother took me to town and got me some new shoes. I did not like shoes, so took them off as soon as we got home. I was about three. She could only find one shoe and could not do do anything to me, because she had not told not to take my shoes off.

She had to get me more shoes. lol!

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:35 am

Like Zada and Alice, I remember the important events when I was three. Al Smith and Herbert Hoover running for president. Visiting my Irish relatives in Connecticut and being amazed that a dozen people could all be talking at the same time and never miss a word the others were saying so they could disagree. Finding that breakfast at their homes consisted of meat and potatoes with pie for dessert. A boy of about ten complaining that the apple dumplings were hard and then being forced to eat all of them that remained, a dozen or more.

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:07 am

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:21 am

Now I remember things form when I was young but I could not say how old I was. I don't think I had any idea of the concept of age back then. I would probably have to be hypnotised and regressed back in time to get any clarification.

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:12 am

Being jealous of my baby sister getting the pram and me having to walk with my mum to the shops. There are large holes though, like arriving at the childrens home; I don't remember getting there but do remember falling from a water pipe in the play room. I climbed up to show off to a girl, I was all of four at the time. I landed on my head and howled the place down, though the only damage was to the floor, hehehe. Laughing

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:26 am

I wonder why none of us have pleasant memories?

We remember traumatic things best.

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:46 am

I don't remember what age I was, but I do remember opening the front door and finding what seemed like hundreds of stray cats (it was probably only 10-15). I had never seen so many cats in one place and I loved it!

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 12:31 pm

thehairymob wrote:: remember falling from a water pipe in the play room. I climbed up to show off to a girl, I was all of four at the time. I landed on my head and howled the place down, though the only damage was to the floor, hehehe.

Was the girl impressed? Memories 472104

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:44 pm

I don't remember. Very Happy

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:57 pm

Happy memory, Alice:

My great-uncle Bob took me to Preston to buy me a party frock for my fourth birthday. In the shop, I chose a royal blue velvet dress with a white lace trim and matching knickers. I could not be dissuaded out of my choice. The dress and knickers were wrapped in layers of tissue and placed in a box that was twice as big as me. Outside the shop, my uncle offered to carry the huge parcel but I held firm and refused any help. I walked along carrying my prized possession with great pride. My uncle was tickled pink.

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:28 pm

Alice wrote:: I wonder why none of us have pleasant memories?
We remember traumatic things best.

I thought my memories were pleasant.

Don, that's a touching story and I'm glad it worked out OK in the end. It reminds me of a night when I visited my daughter when she was about four and in the hodpital. When I left I could hear her calling me as I walked down the hallway. I wanted to go back but knew it wouldn't be a wise move.

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:35 pm

I remember giving up cigarettes the year before I started school, and swearing off sex and alcohol the next year. I must have been about 6 or so.

Subject: Re: Memories Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:11 pm

Alice wrote:: I wonder why none of us have pleasant memories?

We remember traumatic things best.

My earliest memory was three was well. But it was a nice memory.

I remember wandering around my mother's rose bushes and finding two perfect roses. I picked them and took them too my mother who was delighted with my 'gift'.

She put them in my hair and then took a picture of me.

She still has that photo.

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