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My dad told me he was a movie star. When we would watch the old westerns he would say don’t look away or you will miss me. Us kids would sit on the mat engrossed in the western. My dad would always be the one in the mask ( of course) every time we looked away my dad would shout ” look there I am, Oh you just missed me” I would tell all the kids at school that my dad was a famous movie star. Needless to say during my school days I had the pish taken out of me for years. Thanks for the laugh dad!!
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When I was a child, my grandad told me that when I had pins and needles in my hand or foot I should spit on my fingers and rub the inside of my elbow (for my hand) or the back of my knee (for my foot) and it would make the pins and needles go away…
It didn’t dawn on me until I was in my late 30s (when I had pins and needles and found myself still doing it) that it was an absolute load of old tosh..
Yet even now, I still do it. And it still works!!
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Never told anyone this but at school as a very young child my teacher said to me “pull your socks up” and guess what I did thinking he couldn’t see.
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When I was a child I had this terrifying fear that whenever I walked under or over a bridge it would collapse. I think it might have stemmed from something I saw on TV in a movie. Sometimes I’d have to be picked up and carried by a parent and I’d be screaming and shouting. Other times I’d have to run ahead to get to the other side as soon as I could. Thankfully I’m over that fear now but when I’m driving or walking over or under a bridge it still comes to mind, and I’m half expecting the bridge to collapse :)
*Awaits all the psychoanalysts explanations
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When I was young my dad took me to anfieild, fairly regularly. I had an apple for half time. Anyway he always wore his ‘ columbo mac… we’d drive up the main drag and there would be this policeman , ethnic origin, very pleasant , and he was meant to stop cars going up round ground trying to park, my dad would wind window down , flash this card ? And say ” Sybill Road ” all commanding like, and the copper would say go ahead sir .. he’d find a road to park in, young kids would move dining chairs out of the front of there house so he could park, he’d flash em this card and they’d say ” yep ok boss. Not a scratch ” etc. he’d always give em 50p when we got back . I was always a bit dumbstruck When I was about 14 I had to get to a really important ( thing ). We were in a big traffic jam.. I was stressing. Suddenly my dad rolled down his side window and held this ‘ card ‘ out. Flashing his lights. Everyone moved out the way , by this time I’d seen ‘ the card ‘. It was a Blue Star petrol card. Provided by employers to get petrol for company cars
I was cringing in the footwell.
Makes me laugh now tho
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I had a fear of mittens.
I thought that if I wore them too long my fingers would fuse together and I’d be left with penguin like flippers at the end of my hands.
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Mooosey, I had to laugh at the remark about the dining chairs in the roads around the grounds lollll they still do it today! The local kids would smile and say ” can I mind your car mister ” loll If they knew best they would give the kids a few quid .
I was about 5 or 6 when an older neighbour friend sat me down on the door step and told me if I eat Weetabix my boobs would grow really big….so I had a fear of Weetabix….and it wasn’t until I was in my 30s when I mentioned it to someone they couldn’t stop laughing….I thought there was an ingredient in there that really did make them grow!!
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When I was a child I had this terrifying fear that whenever I walked under or over a bridge it would collapse. I think it might have stemmed from something I saw on TV in a movie. Sometimes I’d have to be picked up and carried by a parent and I’d be screaming and shouting. Other times I’d have to run ahead to get to the other side as soon as I could. Thankfully I’m over that fear now but when I’m driving or walking over or under a bridge it still comes to mind, and I’m half expecting the bridge to collapse :) *Awaits all the psychoanalysts explanations
It’s basically about control and fear of falling short of it.
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