How goofy can you be and still live?

[Sigmund]

I was 11 years old and my brother was 7. It was summer, hot and we were bored. (Bad combination)
We decide to play catch but the only ball we could find was a croquet ball (Can you see where this is going?) We tosse the ball and then...I missed the ball. It hit me square between my eyebrows on the forhead. It knocked me flat on my back. A few hours later I got purple rings under my eyes (Because of the broken blood vessels on my forehead the blood pooled under my eyes. For the next week I had a goose egg sized lump on my forehead and two blck eyes. Stooopid!

[~Ally~]

I was seven, and it was also in the summer. I was with my brothers and their friends at the local lake. I remember it was a hot day--unusual for England--and everyone was having fun.

There was actually two lakes in the park, separated by a big distance but there was a "tunnel" beneath leading between them. One of my brothers friends didn't realise I couldn't swim and pushed me into the water, which was very deep. I can recall looking around me and seeing the fish swimming and seaweed, then I was pulled into the tunnel. It felt like I was under there for a lifetime. Luckily one of my brothers had seen what happened and jumped in the water not long after and managed to pull me out. That was a very frightening experience, and to this day my parents don't know about it. I made a promise to my brothers I would never tell, and kids promises like that should not be broken. After all, I survived so there was no need for anyone to get in trouble. I learned to swim pretty fast after that though, but I still have a fear of water in big open spaces, especially being in the sea.

[arista]

Stupid should hurt

[PatInTheHat]

I'll let you know if & when I find out!


Well, now that I come to think on it....

On a brighter note, evidently quite a bit, and I ain't called Goofballicus Maximus (in the Latin don'cha ya know) for nothin', 'cause I'm still tickin' & kickin'

[Kim L.]

I was seven, and it was also in the summer. I was with my brothers and their friends at the local lake. I remember it was a hot day--unusual for England--and everyone was having fun.

There was actually two lakes in the park, separated by a big distance but there was a "tunnel" beneath leading between them. One of my brothers friends didn't realise I couldn't swim and pushed me into the water, which was very deep. I can recall looking around me and seeing the fish swimming and seaweed, then I was pulled into the tunnel. It felt like I was under there for a lifetime. Luckily one of my brothers had seen what happened and jumped in the water not long after and managed to pull me out. That was a very frightening experience, and to this day my parents don't know about it. I made a promise to my brothers I would never tell, and kids promises like that should not be broken. After all, I survived so there was no need for anyone to get in trouble. I learned to swim pretty fast after that though, but I still have a fear of water in big open spaces, especially being in the sea.

Ally, girl, you were lucky!

[spanishjoe74]

while walking with a friend we noticed a rope swing next to an embankment.inevitably i instantly become six again and run off to have a go. after a couple of goes each we decide to carry on walking but you know how it is when you were a kid & have to stop doing something..( just one more go, purleeeeeeeeeeeze?)
according to my mate the rope gave way as i reached the furthest point of 'swing' & i was some 15-20 feet above the ground and when i hit the floor i bounced up about 4 feet, narrowly missing a fallen tree.
all i know is it knocked the breath out of me for what felt like an eternity but when i felt ok we just carried on walking like we intended to. oddly enough ive not been on a rope swing since!!

[Todash]

Even though I was the goody-two-shoes of the bunch, always worried about doing the right thing, I still managed to do some stuff that was pretty dumb.

My favorite: when I was a fifth grader, my sister Kat was in third grade, and our friend Alice was in fourth, we used to love to disappear into some local woods pretty much all day long. One of our favorites was this section that had a concrete dam at a point where the river was 40 ft across or so. Well, a big ol' tree had floated down that river and got caught on the dam, and probably a third of it was hanging over the drop on the other side. So being three young girls whose parents had no idea where they disappeared to all day, several times that summer, we decided it was a good idea to climb onto the part of the tree hanging over the dam, all three of us, and eat lunch and sun ourselves like lizards. We probably did that four or five times, and then after a good rain a few days after our last visit, we ventured back into the woods with the same plan in mind. Only, the tree had completely washed over the other side of the dam and lay at the bottom of the 15- or 20-foot drop.

We just all sort of looked at each other in shock. It had never entered our minds that that tree was movable. o.O

[FlakeNoir]

A couple of friends and I were (supposed to be) team leaders on a third form school camp. We were in our sixth or seventh form (making us around 16 or17 years) and had responsibilities for a group of kids during the day. At night, the teachers/parents kind of took over and we students slept in a slightly different area of the camp. Weeeeell, on the last night, we decided to drink the bottle of wine () that we had snuck into camp. () We had also decided to sleep under the stars as it was a beautiful night. Sometime later on, we fell asleep.... next to the camp-fire. Oh shite.
I woke up to a disgusting smell and sudden warmth in my lower leg area. I had rolled into the camp-fire and my sleeping bag had caught alight! I managed to scramble out and got away with a wrecked sleeping bag, a hole in my track-pants and a big scorch mark on my leg. Oh... and some pretty damned stern words from the teachers and parentals!

[mstay]

When I was a kid...

1. I caught a mouse in the big field behind my house. It was cute and I thought it would make a great pet. I kept it in a cage in my room for a day or two. Then I decided to take it out to play with. It bit me! So I let it go but I didn't tell anyone it bit me. Luckily I didn't get rabies or anything.

2. My friend and I used to go hiking in the hills that were not very far from our house. At the bottom of one of the canyons there was a small dam and pond that collected water from the river that came down from the mountains. We always would stop and play in that water and we usually drank some because we were thirsty. One day we were heading home after playing there for a while and a news truck pulled up. Some news lady got out and asked us if she could ask us some questions. We were gonna be famous! She wanted to know if we had been playing in or drinking the water. Of course we said no. Lied through our teeth, right there on camera. We asked her why and she said she was doing a news story on how the water was really polluted and it was a good thing we hadn't been drinking it. So we hurried home so we could see ourselves on the news.

I think it's a miracle any of us survived childhood.

[Becks19]

I was 11 years old and my brother was 7. It was summer, hot and we were bored. (Bad combination)
We decide to play catch but the only ball we could find was a croquet ball (Can you see where this is going?) We tosse the ball and then...I missed the ball. It hit me square between my eyebrows on the forhead. It knocked me flat on my back. A few hours later I got purple rings under my eyes (Because of the broken blood vessels on my forehead the blood pooled under my eyes. For the next week I had a goose egg sized lump on my forehead and two blck eyes. Stooopid!

Sigmund, When I was about nine I was watching some kids play baseball at a local field and caught a fly ball full in the eye. I had the worst black eye you ever saw big black, purple, swollen you name it...I should have been paying attention and I wasn't!! Taught me to watch the ball even if I'm not playing!!