share your little boy/girl story.....

back in the 70s when i was maybe 6 or 7 my mom gave me money to go to the store to buy her cigarettes. so i hopped on my bike and away i went. when i got to the store and at the cashier i looked down and holy #$%^ i see a ten dollar bill (about 8 usd by todays exchange) that was a lot of money those days for a kid. so i pick it up and put it in my pocket..get back on my bike and ride home...when i got home i'm like mom!!! look what i found!!! i reach in my pocket and realized i had a hole in it (like all little boys didn't have one) 🙄...i lost it...but i got back on my bike and retraced my path...lo and behold i found it on the street. giddy up!!! i put it on my dresser when i got back home...next day it was gone....it sucks having an older brother steel from you!!! bastard probably bought a months worth of pop rocks and jaw breakers 🤣

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Colonelmustardseed · 36-40

I must have been 5 or 6. We lived in an apartment in a trashy neighborhood (I didn’t know bad stuff happened all around us, but my older sister remembers). I had my little group of friends who I’d hang out with at the sandbox. There was this red fence around it, and the kids told me it was blood, and that there were bodies buried in the sand. If we stayed too long standing in it, a hand would reach out and drag us under.

We took turns running across as fast as we could to not get dragged. Then we’d go off and dumpster dive or something. I found a calculator and thought it was a Turtle-com (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was my favorite show back then). We found a mirror once, and I was flashing reflected light around on things; one time in a guy’s eyes. He was looking around for who did it, and we got scared and ran. 🤭

There was this mean little boy in our group. Mean to everyone but me. He used to bring us snacks. When I told him my family was moving, he gave me something he found in the dumpster: a jewel. I was so impressed. As an adult, I know it was one of those plastic things on cheap chandeliers. But to a little kid, it was a treasure.

NativePortlander1970

@Colonelmustardseed Your own Little Rascals Gang :)

beermeplease · M

@NativePortlander1970 kind of like some of us in sw 🤣....i loved that show!

NativePortlander1970

@beermeplease Most definitely, it was a fun series of shorts to watch while growing up, but all of their parents would be in prison today on charges of neglect.