Things that you used to do as a child repetitively and now think "WTF?!"

[ConfusedPixie]

The hot chocolate thread got me thinking about this. For some reason, I used to tip a full glass of water onto the carpet, the same patch of carpet, every single day. No clue why. I was asked to stop, but I just did it anyway

I ate chalk too, like the chalk kids draw with. Both of these things happened until high school age?!

Anything utterly random and repetitive you may have done?

retrohippy - I did that Milky Way thing too! Can't help you with the frottage though.

alltoomuch - me too. I also imagined that I was really a princess, and that one day my royal parents would find me and it was all a terrible mistake that I was living in a semi detached in Sheffield.

Many if my weird habits have already been mentioned but anyway... My parents had an open coal fire with a mesh fire guard. I used to enjoy licking patterns on the mesh and then watching the heat if the fire dry my saliva. Like stained glass, only it was baked on encrusted spit. Some of my designs lasted quite a while!

I also (and maybe still do ) collect skin from blisters and leave it to dry out. I like(d) to then inspect all the lines in it. I usually kept it for a few days until it totally shrivelled up.

I told DH last night about the skin sewing.

he said he used to actually sew his fingers together!
who is a weirdo now?

all the people who complain about today's youngsters watching too much tv or playing Minecraft should read this thread.

I think informative tv and creative games are way better use of time than lying under a moving train or eating grass.
or sewing your fingers together!

I think some people would argue that at least it's creative

This is hilarious!

I recognise a few oddities.

I loved a wee dram of malt....vinegar!

Have now been reminded of the deliciousness of sucking on a wet flannel.

Bogie wall galleries too.

I used to sit in bed awake for hours during the summer months when it was light out till late, one of my favourite passtimes was to make 'potions' my best recipe consisted of body lotion and talc, Id mix it in an old ice cream tub and by morning it would have set, then Id make something from that. Hours of fun.

toys

and grass aids bringing up fur balls!

i used to eat pages of my books too. i still eat the bubbles in a bubble bath.

I used to eat butter in lumps from the dish too and I loved tomato ketchup sandwiches.

I love eating lumps of butter. In fact, I did so yesterday. DP insists there is no such thing as a butter sandwich, but he is wrong!

For some reason, I used to get up in the middle of the night and hang my legs out the window

For no reason whatsoever, whenever I was given a pear to eat, I would take it out to our porch and pretend I was a seal, barking and slapping my hands together, and be fed the pear by my imaginary zoo keeper.

Coz seals eat pears. Obviously.

I have no idea WTF I was up to....

mama & fay

now you are talking!
I used to eat butter like you eat a piece of raw carrot!
I still bite into butter sometimes with my bread instead of spreading it on.

I used to poke my nails into my grans wallpaper too, I thought it would pop like bubble wrap. You have thought I would catch on that it didn't after the first few tries, but no I did it for years .
Fannel sucking sponge chewing, furniture biter, plug water drinking, crisp paste did them all .

I also used to do a thing with my eyebrows where I imagined I had a pencil on my forehead and they had to jump over it . I used to spend hours pulling faces to get the feeling right

Oh and if we had chip's I'd put vinegar in my tea.

Remembered as well I went through a phase for a couple of years or so where every car I saw, I had to think of a word which used every letter on the number plate. The best was when you didn't need to add any letters, the more letters you had to add the worse it was.

I got really obsessive about it, it took real effort to stop myself from doing it.

I used to do that thing of pretending I was in a novel and mentally adding "she said" after everything I said or narrating what was happening in my head: "And then she opened the door and went into the room." I once heard an interview with Ruth Rendell where she said she did this as a child, and George Orwell did too, apparently, so I feel like I'm in good company.

I used to suck the water out of my wet hair. And pee in the bath before my brother got in! Some of these are hilarious. Am loving the poo sticks game! My friends and I used to play a game called spit where we could play it and spit at each other. We still laugh about this now. Oh, and making up alternative lyrics to popular songs. I remember "I saw the sign" by ace of base becoming "I saw your mum". And I still remember the words.....

This thread has made me cry with laughter! DP keeps looking at me with a quizzical look on his face. Might share some of these with him.

I used to put my two legs in one leg of my pyjamas and pretend I was running for a bus .never ever done this with trousers only my pjs

annie

why? just why?
I can't stop laughing! did you ever catch a bus?

I've remembered something, and it's really, really bad! It was a favourite game for a while with myself and friend six doors down. We gave the game a name, but I shall change the girl's name! It was called.. Poisoning Susan. 'Susan' lived next door to my friend. I should point out she had done nothing to us at all! She was a really sweet, slightly younger girl! We used to get penny sweets and ..well..poison them. With things from the shed. Unwrap them, squirt stuff on then wrap them up again..Fruit Salads, BlackJacks and the like. And leave them on the garden wall for her. I don't think we ever wanted her to eat them! I don't know why we did it really It was just the thrill of her taking them and then seeing they were in edible. She came out one day and said 'my mummy says I'm not to eat any of your sweets' . We could've killed her :-((( I'm deeply sorry 'Susan', wherever you may be! and so glad you never swallowed any!

Oh my god at attempted murder of cute little girl neighbour!

This thread is absolutely amazing

I did do the PVA glue on the fingers (didn't everyone) and the eating all the chocolate off the Club (or whatever) biscuit before eating the biscuit, but none of the other stuff ever occurred to me

I did suck my thumb. And DS ate chalk, sand and licked paintbrushes at the one o'clock club!

I used to melt candles on the lightbulb of my desk lamp.

then wait for the wax to drop on a paper to make interesting patterns.

or onto my hand as a test to see if I can stand the heat.