[LuaBlanca]

Wow...some of you were REALLY STRANGE kids....just thought I'd say that...

and now I'm joining the ranks:

-My brother and I used to have this fascination with playing "Bank." Not house, not school, BANK. (With Manopoly Money and coins we would get out of the couch cushions...)

-When I would go to my friends house we would spend 4 hours setting up her room with all her fisher price kitchen/house stuff and then just not play with it. We would set it up, admire it, and take it down...

-Once, my older cousin had come over to play and when it was time for her to leave I was mad because I didn't want her to go...so I had this brilliant idea that if I hid her shoe she couldn't leave...I put in my box of Barbies in my closet...but Alas! My uncle just carried her out the door and I cried.

-I used to eat the dirt out of the potted plants in my grandmother's house...and- I used to use the clay-like insulation apoxy she lined the windows with to make animals...

-My grandfather used to have this HUGE Labor Day party. It was this end-of-summer clam-boil/cook out and my 35 cousins and I looked forward to it all year. We had this game we called "Girl-Nuts-Boy-Nuts" (I have NO IDEA where THAT came from...) but we would arrive, say hi to the relatives, and immediately BOLT to the woods behind the house. There was this clearing back there, and on one side the girls had a fort and on the other side the boys had a fort. We would spend HOURS rebuilding and fixing up the fort (w/ ferns, sticks, logs, leaves, anything we could find in the woods) and then one of the older kids would whistle or something and all hell would break loose. The little ones would run to the center and beat each other up, the older ones would throw "bombs" and try to wreck the other teams' fort. This game had absolutely no point, and no one ever won. We would just attack until the forts were ruined and that was it...but it was this HUGE ordeal...

One of my friends was just telling me that he used to have phone sex in 4th grade....whoa...