My first topic in OT. I felt like I had waited long enough to be 'allowed' to post a topic.

 

So, as the topic says (maybe it's unclear), this thread is for all your Childhood/Womanhood/Manhood memories and/or stories that you would like to share with everyone. I'm thinking many of them will be funny, heartwarming, or just plain memorable. But hey, if you want to share a story in your life that is sad or tragic, I'm sure we'll all be glad to comfort you. Heck, if anything, we'll listen.

 

It'd be rude for me not to post first, so, here goes it!

 

I had started playing parks and recreation baseball (maybe at age 9 or 10), but it was player-pitch (no machine). And I thought it'd be fun to try out pitching, so I asked my little sister to come practice with me out in the back yard. I was using a tennis ball because I didn't have a baseball. She got down in the catcher's position and I started throwing tennis balls at her. Most of them went all over the place, but a few landed in her glove. And then, I threw one especially hard, and she didn't get her glove up just in time, and it smacked her right in the forhead. The funny part about it is that it hit her forhead at an angle so that it bounced (it made a distinct pop sound, like the sound you hear in wii tennis matches when you hit the ball with the racket) straight up in the air about 15 ft. Meanwhile, she fell straight back on her butt, and it was probably one of the funniest things I've ever seen. She wasn't hurt, and we both just laughed really hard.

 

Guess you had to be there.

 

Post on! :thumbup:

I've got a baseball one myself.

 

My sister (older) asked me to pitch to her for a bit, so I did. She kept hitting it to my left, each one getting closer and closer to me. Finally, I said I had had enough. She ultimately convinced me to throw one more and so I did. It came back at me with a vengeance and I dropped like a rock. I took it in the side of the head. Apparently I should have trusted my gut and quit one pitch sooner like I wanted to. Now, whenever somebody says "1 more!" I refuse.

 

I was maybe 6 at the time.

I kind of feel like this is basically just a continuation of the today/rl h&a/things that annoy the hell out of you thread.

 

If it ends up being more of that I'm going to lock it - we have enough of these types of thread. But let's see how it goes.

Well, as long as we're on baseball stories...

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In fifth grade, we were playing baseball at lunch. Now I'm not very good at baseball, so whenever I got a hit, I was pretty proud of myself.

 

One particular day I got a homerun (we just set an imaginary line in the field). Which was great, but the ball ended up hitting this cute girl in my class. I was scared, so I ran off to play basketball and pretended like I was there all lunch. I felt terrible afterwards though.

 

Almost six years later and we're actually friends now. I ended up telling her the story a year or two later.

Yeah, that's why I was kinda reluctant to post it. Lock it if you judge it so. :thumbup:

My elementary school pretty much had Nazis for teachers. I was in detention at least once a week for something dumb. Once was because my friend and I had gotten into an ice fight with his sister and her friend. Some teacher came over, broke it up, took me and my friend to the principal's office, and gave us both detention while completely ignoring the fact that the two girls, who were two years older than us by the way, had started throwing ice at us first.

 

Another time I got detention with another friend because we refused to give up the swings we were riding on because some girls decided to use some arbitrary rule of counting to 100 that we legitimately had never heard of in our 5 years of attending the school. We pretty much told the girls to [bleep] off however a 4th grader would say it and they went and got a teacher who gave us detention for "not sharing". Total crap because we actually waited for a pair of swings to open up without bothering anyone with crappy rules.

 

Had one of these as a kid, but it was red (manly.) I was driving around my grandma's house with my little brother in it and I randomly swerved into a ditch with about 5 feet of water. We both cried and I wrecked the jeep.

I was playing baseball with my brother once. I pitched, he hit, and threw the bat way up in the air. I look up to see where it is - wham.

 

It was painful, I remember that. It was a wooden bat, too.

I fell face first from the top of the bunk bed. In reality, it wouldn't surprise me if I had broken my neck or something.

My friend and I were playing cricket, he was bowling and I was batting, we both would've been around 8. My friend threw the ball and it bounced off an uneven surface, onto a wall and hit me in the face (it was either a tennis ball or a rubber one, not a proper one). I was upset/angry but we continued playing, next ball, it happened again. I had the pkastic cricket bat in my hand so I started chasing him around the house with the bat, after a couple of loops my friend picked up the wooden bat amd started chasing me. Eventually we both got tired, stopped, and started laughing about it.

I fell face first from the top of the bunk bed. In reality, it wouldn't surprise me if I had broken my neck or something.

Somehow, my cousin made my fly head first over the handlebars of my bike. I was completely unharmed.

I kind of feel like this is basically just a continuation of the today/rl h&a/things that annoy the hell out of you thread.

 

If it ends up being more of that I'm going to lock it - we have enough of these types of thread. But let's see how it goes.

Yup, looks like just more of the same. Pretty much all of this could be posted on the today/things that annoy the hell out of you/reveal confessions/rl h& a threads.

 

Locking.