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?

[ThePearShapedToad]

For about two year when I was 4 I used to hide my twice-daily cod liver oil tablets down the side of the sofa. (Hmmm does this out my mother as being slatternly?!) cue moving day when I was 6, the removal men took the sofa apart, and HUNDREDS of these tablets poured out into the living room. Was quite impressive to watch actually. As I imagine was the shouting I received 5 mins later

I also used to take my mothers expensive candles (the ones that were so for best they were never lit) and lie them sideways on the radiator when the heating was on. I used to love watching the wax melt and drip all down the radiator. Denied all knowledge when confronted naturally

[UriGHOULer]

I would record myself answering scripted questions (as a famous celebrity, shit American accent and everything) on my little tape recorder.

Then I would be Wogan and ask these interesting questions to the tape recorder, then press play, pause etc.

I'd honestly sit there with a pen and a clipboard and raise my woganny eyebrows at the insightful and fascinating answers I would give.

I wasn't even an only child [bludh]

[UriGHOULer]

Emoticon fail

[MoJangled]

I wish I'd had a horse running beside the car; I had a metal boom thing sticking out the side of the car knocking all the lamp posts and telegraph poles over. I had to actively lift it to avoid flattening everything. Drove me bananas.

Talking of bananas, DSis and I used to peel off the stickers from bananas, put them on our noses, and sing 'banana skin nose, banana skin nose, DSis has got a banana skin nose' every time we ate a banana.

Had to be the last person at the table to use my knife. Could be quite limiting!

Writing on walls with grasshoppers

Multicoloured pasta was the cast and audience of a show. Green pasta was the male cast, red the female cast and plain the audience. They had to be eaten in order of appearance, audience last.

I used to apologise to all ski lifts and bicycles that had to carry me and had to chat to them the whole time I was on them, to be polite (self esteem issues)

And rather than a narrator, I had an observer living in my head and looking out from my eyes, and I would purposely go and look at road signs, letters etc so they would know where they were

[MoJangled]

But you raw sausage and bacon eaters - you're all freaks!

Bread balls, bogies, raw pastry, skin, scabs, orange peel, apple cores, all delicious.

[Peetle]

Yes to the biscuit wrapper flatteners. Kids today are denied the pleasure of biscuits wrapped in a bit of foil stuck to some greaseproof paper. I spent hours carefully peeling the two apart and derived huge satisfaction from getting them apart in one piece. Then I'd completely flatten the foil and wonder what to do with the result.

I do still occasionally attempt to open a packet of biscuits without tearing the wrapper but in this age of heat sealed plastic it's a lot harder than it used to be.

[MoJangled]

what to do with squares of foil from sweets and biscuits:

put a forefinger lightly in the middle of it to almost prevent it moving. use the other forefinger to move the outside round like a roundabout, pressing just enough in the middle to create a swirl like a satelite picture of a hurricane. Work of art. Impossible to throw away. even when you have 100's of them.

[PipkinsPal]

I used to rip off and eat the corner of newspapers and also chewed on tissues. My mother said I would poo toilet roll if I continued. Also loved to melt candle wax in a teaspoon over a candle and drip it on my arm and pick off the hardened wax. Used to eat Garibaldi biscuits so it would look like I had fillings, just like my friends . Also a flannel sucker and sponge eater and a candlewick bedspread and teddy bear plucker. Used to squash caterpillars with my Dad's vice.

[ShinyBauble]

I used to pour the salt shaker directly into my mouth. My parents also had to hide the vitamin c tablets because they once caught me polishing off a full bottle (they were gorgeous, like really nice orange sweets, not the chalky crap you get now.)

[Owhatfuckeryisthis]

Oh vitamin c tablets, the really really sour ones.my mouth is watering now.iwas a hair pulling (one at a time to get the root) scab eating freak.i also used to scrape the first of the walls of the freezer and eat it.i will still eat snow. (blush)

[MrsHoolie]

I used to suck the end of my cat's tail

[nouvellevag]

I used to have school dinner one day a week and take packed lunch the rest of the time. On school dinner day I would take an extra little paper packet of salt, stash it in my skirt pocket, go off to lunchtime choir after clearing my plate and then secretly eat the salt packet, paper and all, while pretending to sing. God, it was delicious.

I also used to do an elaborate ritual with books where I'd tear a bit out of eavery page in the same place each time (low down so it didn't spoil the words), making a little tunnel through the book, and chewing the torn-out bits of paper as I went. I didn't swallow them, though. I have a feeling I kept them in a box, because in my mind books were precious (!) and it was unthinkable to throw a piece of a book in the bin.

[RafaellaNhaKyria]

I used to drive needles through the top layer of skin on my palms, weaving it up and down so that it looked like it had been sewn into my skin.

I also used to light a taper candle and drip wax onto my hand, the longer I was uninterrupted the better as I could get a cast of my thumb or a couple of fingers. I had a box filled with little wax casts of parts of my hand. I don't know why I did it either, it hurt like hell!

[YoniGetAnOohWithTyphoo]

strip my barbies and line them up so I could laugh at their bottoms.
I did this quite often. clearly, I knew how to have fun as a kid!

[YoniGetAnOohWithTyphoo]

oh and Kateandme I also did the walking on toes thing still do it now never hurt though. Am slightly worried it might have stuffed up my skeleton slightly... but I do have calves of steel

[BorisJohnsonsHair]

I used to have tin next to my bed (the kind that you get set squares and protractors in) and every night would take the skin off my hot milky drink and put it in the tin. My mum was disgusted when she opened it one day and found the stinking green goo inside. In my defence, skin on hot drinks IS vile and it was better than putting it under the bed or something.

[DaisyFitz]

OMG. I was a book eater too! The bottom corner. What is that about?

[mummyandmidwife]

Honeydragon

I was scared of him too. I used to hide my face till he was gone

[BathildaBagshot]

I ate Opal Fruits with the wrappers on. Still get the urge to do it!

[rach89]

I used to pinch frozen green beans out of the freezer. My dad caught me once and the only excuse I could come up with is that there were some boys outside and I was going to throw them out my window at them!!! Xx

[icanmakeyouicecream]

I used to eat talcum powder ... Weirdo

[katheroo]

I drew tiny little 'x's' on every item I owned (including sheets,curtains etc) so that robbers would know not to take them if they burgled our house. I still remember my mums face when I explained this to her when she clocked one of my pillowcases with an X in biro on it during a bedtime story

[PamShoo]

Not odd but - I can still remember playing a 'basketball' game every day after school (and it HAD to be every day after school, I had to stick to schedule) in the house. It wasn't basketball even - just me throwing the ball at the door and catching it, occasionally spinning it. I used to 'teach' it to imaginary people, and would write lists and lists of random names of my 'pupils'..

Also used to eat cupcakes AND the cupcake cases they came in - would try and 'squeeze' out the last morsels of cake greedy

Oh - and used to such on chewy cola bottle sweets for ages, convinced that I was actually sucking the cola out of it. I swore to people I saw the sort of cola 'level' dropping - alas I never seemed to suck all of the cola out of the sweet, I wonder why??!