# Things you did as a kid, and still do. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371 "2009-01-28T10:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/1 "2009-01-28T10:41:03Z")
To clarify the age, I mean under 10 years old… For one, I’ve always loved cereal. I gotta have it as often as possible. When I walk down a sidewalk I try to avoid stepping on the lines. I often eat in the comfort of my bed laying on my stomach. I don’t jaywalk over 2 lanes of road. I play video games. I create beats and melodies in my head and whistle them, beatbox them, or output them in some of form. Caught myself doing it as I was tying this. I love to go fishing, but never go fishing. Only on rare occasions. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/2 "2009-01-28T10:58:13Z")
Eat peanut butter on toast non-stop until acted upon by an external force. That’s it really, I think! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/3 "2009-01-28T11:15:09Z")
Sit on my floor and read. Play board games by myself. Daydream about fantasy worlds and battles and space pirates and all kinds of things… Why yes, I was an only child. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/4 "2009-01-28T11:27:10Z")
Stay up til dawn finishing a book. Eat grilled cheese sandwiches and Spaghettios. Using the latter as a dip for the former. Imagine myself being someone cooler someday. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/5 "2009-01-28T12:42:04Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Eat peanut butter on toast non-stop until acted upon by an external force. > > That’s it really, I think! That’s awesome. I still dunk my peanut butter sammiches in milk. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/6 "2009-01-28T12:44:46Z")
I drink the leftover milk from cereal straight out of the bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/7 "2009-01-28T12:46:06Z")
Read\* Calvin N’ Hobbes\* when I’m home sick. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/8 "2009-01-28T12:52:31Z")
I still get excited about the prospect of bunk beds. One of the sisters has a loft in her room at my monastery. I soooo want one and am a little envious of her whenever I think about it. I also still enjoy sugary cereal and cartoons, preferably together on a Saturday morning. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/9 "2009-01-28T12:54:32Z")
[quote=“1920s Style “Death Ray”, post:6, topic:483371”] I drink the leftover milk from cereal straight out of the bowl. [/QUOTE] Of course… 🙂 that is the only way. I wasn’t aware it was out of the ordinary… ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/10 "2009-01-28T13:07:31Z")
I almost cried with pride when my daughter started doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/11 "2009-01-28T13:55:32Z")
The only other acceptable thing to do with cereal milk is give it to the dog. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/12 "2009-01-28T14:38:55Z")
> [@Justin\_Credible](#): > > Daydream about fantasy worlds and battles and space pirates and all kinds of things… I was supposed to stop doing this when I got old? Oh well, too bad. I still tend to hum incidental music when I perform actions. And I still use The Force to open elevators and automatic doors. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/13 "2009-01-28T14:54:34Z")
> [@EpicNonsense](#): > > I love to go fishing, but never go fishing. Only on rare occasions. Oh, sweet Jeebus, I need coffee!!! I swear I thought that said you “lovee to go _fisting_” and wondered what in the name of hell kind of childhood you had??? :eek: And I still eat grapes by shoving as many into my cheeks as possible, like a chipmunk. But only when no one is looking. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/14 "2009-01-28T15:02:24Z")
Make couch forts. Not as much as I used to, but when I do, they’re fun! I also talk to / hug stuffed animals. There are several watching me type this, and I’d like to think they’re smiling in approval (especially the one a friends’ daughter made for me). If I know a hallway is ‘squeaky’, I do my darndest to figure out the least-squeaky spots and -only- walk on them. ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/15 "2009-01-28T15:05:02Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > Oh, sweet Jeebus, I need coffee!!! I swear I thought that said you “lovee to go _fisting_” and wondered what in the name of hell kind of childhood you had??? :eek: I love to go fisting, but never go fisting. Only on rare occasions. That sounds about right too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/16 "2009-01-28T15:26:44Z")
Hang around the house in my underwear. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/17 "2009-01-28T15:27:27Z")
Eat peanut butter toast for breakfast, and play with streams of water. (Dams! Diversions! New flood channels! All I need is a stick and the seasonal stream of water in the backyard and I’m good for entertainment.) ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/18 "2009-01-28T15:34:37Z")
After I take a dump, I still expect my work, and tell others proudly of its quality/quantity(I’m trying to stop the last bit) Oh, and still I climb stuff, my mother used to say when I was a toddler and she couldn’t find me, she would first look up ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/19 "2009-01-28T15:35:45Z")
hmmm,something went wrong ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371/20 "2009-01-28T15:38:50Z")
I had Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast this morning. I sleep with a teddy bear. I run around and dance in the snow. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-did-as-a-kid-and-still-do/483371.md?page=2)