The Funniest Memory Topic...I Kind Of Went Off-Topic, But Here It Is
Describe your funniest childhood memory
Funny?
I don't remember laughing much as a kid. There really wasn't much to laugh about.
We didn't have much of anything when I was growing up, except each other and our vivid imaginations. I'm the second oldest of six, and when we were really little, we all slept in one room. We spent most of our time in that room or outside.
We played classic games like hide and seek and freeze tag, stuff like that. And it was fun, because we didn't know about board games or anything like that. We played 'Blind Man' in the creek, where one person had to keep his eyes closed and try to find the others without looking.
My sister Corey, who was older than me, liked to read. She'd read to us at night, or make up stories when the electricity was turned off and we didn't have a candle. She and I used to make up word games sometimes when the littler kids were sleeping.
Everything changed the year I was six. My brother Shannon came down with the flu. He and my sister Devin both died in December, just before Christmas.
Daddy lost the house that summer, and the four of us who were still alive were split up. My brother Brooke was little enough and got adopted, but he was killed in a car accident with his new family when he was nine.
Corey ran away from her new home, and no one's ever seen her since. It's just me and my brother Aubrie. He's still in Louisiana. I just saw him at Christmas time.
I don't have a lot of happy memories from childhood. There are some, with my brothers and sisters. But mostly it was rough.
Funny?
I don't remember laughing much as a kid. There really wasn't much to laugh about.
We didn't have much of anything when I was growing up, except each other and our vivid imaginations. I'm the second oldest of six, and when we were really little, we all slept in one room. We spent most of our time in that room or outside.
We played classic games like hide and seek and freeze tag, stuff like that. And it was fun, because we didn't know about board games or anything like that. We played 'Blind Man' in the creek, where one person had to keep his eyes closed and try to find the others without looking.
My sister Corey, who was older than me, liked to read. She'd read to us at night, or make up stories when the electricity was turned off and we didn't have a candle. She and I used to make up word games sometimes when the littler kids were sleeping.
Everything changed the year I was six. My brother Shannon came down with the flu. He and my sister Devin both died in December, just before Christmas.
Daddy lost the house that summer, and the four of us who were still alive were split up. My brother Brooke was little enough and got adopted, but he was killed in a car accident with his new family when he was nine.
Corey ran away from her new home, and no one's ever seen her since. It's just me and my brother Aubrie. He's still in Louisiana. I just saw him at Christmas time.
I don't have a lot of happy memories from childhood. There are some, with my brothers and sisters. But mostly it was rough.