Retrotalk : Retro Central : Weird Childhood Beliefs

I used to think that Charles Manson was going to get out of jail and "get me."

I was also terrified that Hurricane Camille was going to "get me."

Although I specifically don't remember it, my mother tells me that when I was VERY young I "planted" some M&M's thinking an M&M tree would grow.

Stupid kid.

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I don't know if you remember this or not, but back in the mid-seventies, there was a commercial for Juicy Fruit gum that showed people picking
packs of Juicy Fruit off a tree.

Well, thinking we could grow our own Juicy Fruit tree, a few neighbor kids planted a stick of Juicy Fruit gum into the ground.

Okay, I was actually an innocent observer.  view

Or, rather, it came alive whenever I turned the basement lights off. I had to run as quickly up the stairs as possible after flicking the switch, to ensure that he did not kill me before I reached the living room.

I recently came up with a story idea that the screaming a little girl always imagined she was hearing when the clown was chasing her was actually her mother's dying screams, projecting into the little girls' head twenty-five years earlier. Hmmm. Now I'm going to have nightmares about clowns and mothers tonight. Must be Monday.  view

I thought plastic sugery meant they would actually put plastic on your face.
I would think to mmyself, how do they make the plastic look like real skin?


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