Things you found AMAZING as a kid which you now take for granted

Putting my hands over my ears totally changes the way things sound!

Whoa!!!!

masturbation

london

adults

breasts

wait no the other way round

then and now

thunderstorms

the past was not actually black and white.

The way corn kernels become popcorn. No, wait, that's still cool.

I think TV.

Oh yeah TV otm. Esp. colour TV.

Mind you watching my son play some video game on a huge HD tv pretty much amazed me too.

haha, show off!

People drive with their FEET omg?

Remote-controlled anything. Cars in particular, but I was also amazed by garage-openers, video-controllers etc. Basically everything but TV-remotes.
I think what fascinated me was that you could play a button, and some very clear process started (i.e. garage started opening, tape started fast-forwarding, car veered off in a different direction)
Now? Oh OK, I still sometimes think it's kinda cool.
I really wanted a remote controlled car until I got to try a friend's. It was fun enough, but I got the impression that it had to be (re)charged for two days after 20 minutes of play.

The big pencil sharpeners they had in some classrooms. You inserted your pencil into this fairly big device that was attached to the teacher's desk, then turned a handle to sharpen it. It made the most wonderful sound.

Pork chops. I thought I was the most spoiled kid ever whenever we had pork chops, as I saw them as THE luxury-meal. I remember being amazed when a school mate of mine was REALLY disappointed that they were having pork chops for dinner, complaining that they had that every week. Every week! Oh my god, so lucky!

haha, show off!

-- ken c, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 12:55 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

If only, sadly it was my neices.

escalators

Planes in the sky. Travelling in a plane even moreso.

Putting Space Dust in the mouth, then boosting the crackles with a can of Pepsi - it was better than cocaine, which is boring

That grown-ups with jobs don't get summer vacation

Revolving doors (I still kind of enjoy them, though)

That if you close your eyes and press on the lids, you can see colorful pictures

Oh, and escalators. I still like those, too.

the iridescence of oil in parking lot puddles
plumbing (I was forever flushing stuff then running out to see if it showed up in the ditch)

magnetic marbles

burning things
rain and malls

HMV, liverpool.

I thought that said HIV at first. o_0

rivers, pulleys, garage doors, glow sticks, dogs that can do more than sit, automatic car windows, beard and mustaches, trees changing color, hibernation, optical illusions, indoor swimming pools, chewing gum

I was gonna say MY SKULL but fuck no, I am grateful for my skull every time I accidentally close it in a cupboard door. It doesn't even hurt! Then I say, "Thank you skull for being thick and having grown inured to pain and accidents."

lying, boxer shorts, snakes, skateboards, braces, cigarette, pornography, playground structures that look like pirate ships, twilight, the crepuscular time of day, pianos, sweetened condensed milk

I was gonna say MY SKULL but fuck no, I am grateful for my skull every time I accidentally close it in a cupboard door.

... And how often does this happen?

Like four times a day.

jello, fireplaces, LPs, beer, tomato horn worms, tights, barrettes, beach pavilions, tides, prisons, corn on the cob, getting wet while fully dressed, neckties, newspapers coming out daily, pineapple

Everyone asked me that rhetorical insult question all my life, "God, did you get dropped on your head as a kid?" I asked my mom when I was seventeen, and she went on for five minutes listing examples from my early years (pre-age-four): falling off a roof, getting thrown off a balcony by my cousin, falling into the shallow end of a swimming pool head-first, etc etc etc...

My nurse says new research suggests early head injuries can be a factor in mental illness. :(

Parallax

plants coming up through pavement, water skippers, leaves changing color, growth, iridescence in general (dragonflies, duck feathers, oil on puddles (like Jaq), soap bubbles), bubbles in general, snow and ice, candy...

dreams - i used to believe that i created an actual, real parallel world every night when i dreamt and wondered what was going on in that world during the day

that people know where to go in airports

Planes in the sky. Travelling in a plane even moreso.

and

rivers, pulleys, garage doors, glow sticks, dogs that can do more than sit, automatic car windows, beard and mustaches, trees changing color, hibernation, optical illusions, indoor swimming pools, chewing gum

I actually think I took a lot of these things for granted when I was a kid because I had no idea how much effort on the part of either people or accident of nature it took to produce such miracles (particularly getting dogs to do more than sit).

I mean, when I was a kid you just went to the swimming pool and didn't really think about it, but nowadays, IT'S A LAKE ON THE ROOF!

Pizza

the past was not actually black and white.

-- Roz, Tuesday, October 9, 2007 12:19 PM

^^^^^

i once asked my mom

"mommy, when did things become colors?"

"The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s,
and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too."

I had a long argument with my Dad because I couldn't believe that you couldn't speak another language just by learning one foreign word per one English word and saying them in exactly the same order.

Calvin's dad OTM.

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