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El JT de Spang
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I just came back from the grocery store, and as is my custom I cart surfed back to the car. I got a few looks, which I ignored. But it started me thinking.

When, if ever, will I outgrow cart surfing (aka riding on the back of the cart with your feet off the ground)? Never, I decided. It's too much fun, and I like a certain amount of irreverence and immaturity in my daily life.

What childish things do you think you'll continue to enjoy for the forseeable future?

My list is:
  • Jumping on trampolines
  • Cart Surfing
  • Water slides

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Laughing out loud.
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That's the great thing about having kids, JT. You have an excuse to go back and do all the things you did as a kid, and even if you look stupid doing it, others understand because you're doing it with your kids.....

[Smile]

FG

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JT - off-topic, but do you think you'll make it over to Carlotta tonight?
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Calling my mom when I don't feel good.
Getting excited about Christmas. And Thanksgiving. And Easter.
Dressing up for Halloween.
My dad cooking me my birthday dinner-- and making me home-made ice cream.
Feeling really special the first time I wear a new pair of shoes or outfit that looks really great.

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I don't see any reason to get rid of the "child-like" things - just the "childish" ones.

That means I'll always play video games. [Big Grin]

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El JT de Spang
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FG - I think the looking stupid is one of my favorite things about it.

Avadaru - I thought so, but now it doesn't look like I'm even gonna be in BR tonight. I'll be there sometime soon, though, and I'll let you know.

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I still cart surf too. [Big Grin]
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Bouncing when I'm happy.
Running with my arms outstretched just for the rush of it.
Twirling.
Coloring Easter eggs.
Cuddling under a blanket while I watch a movie.
Reading children's books.
Coloring in coloring books.
Smelling random people's roses when I go out walking.

I figure, if it was fun when I was four, why shouldn't it be fun now? I can just add to my list of things that are fun as I get older. [Smile]

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I'd the say the top two for me would be reading comic books and watching cartoons. I still do both of those and probably will into the foreseeable future.
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Jokes that the boy in Calvin & Hobbs would think are funny.
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camus
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trying to get as high as possible on the swings
throwing a snowball at someone
making a snowman
climbing a tree
making myself dizzy
watching The Lion King
fingerpainting
late night swimming
etch-a-sketch
repeat everything someone says just to annoy them

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skipping
calling my mom when I don't feel good(echoing ketchupqueen)
The Murrays, O'Keefes, and Austins
Cinderella
running as fast as I can through an open field

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Valentine014
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Tickling. Being tickled and being the tickler.
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ludosti
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playing tag
tickling
making silly faces
cartoons
singing
smelling flowers
eating with my fingers
playing with bugs
staying up too late because you're so into the story you're reading
playing video games
running around in rain
playing in puddles and/or mud
sneaking cookies/treats before dinner time

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Samarkand
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peanut butter an jelly sandwiches
apples and peanut butter
s'mores

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Calling my mom when I'm sick
Having a teddy bear
Dressing up in costume (i.e. for a book or movie launch)
Chasing ducks when I feel sad
Reading kids' and YA books

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Uprooted
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digging in dirt
swinging on swings
riding waves
seeing how high the waves can bury my feet/legs in sand before I panic/get knocked over
picture books
cloud gazing

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Narnia
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Looney Tunes
the Muppets
old episodes of Sesame Street
talking to myself in public
sneaking chocolate chips from the pantry
coloring
Holidays
being a fangirl
hatrack gatherings [Wink]

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SteveRogers
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playing Nintendo

Screaming at Haunted Houses

Eating ice cream and getting on my clothes

Doing stupid things that no one approves of......which is about everything I do

Anything else I think of later, I don't think I'll outgrow much.

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El JT de Spang
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See, luckily, I don't think video games fall under the section "Childish Things."

My parents might think so, but I've part of the first generation to grow up with video games. As such, we kinda get to decide whether or not they are for kids only. I still play them, and so does almost every one of my friends. I'm thinking that's bound to continue for at least another 10-20 years before I totally retire. Kids have more time for video games than adults, but I don't know...

Swinging on the swing is definitely going on my list, though. I include the dismount as a vital part of the swinging. I also still love building sand castles (but only at the beach).

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Swingsets and other playground things.
Rolling down hills.
Splashing in puddles (on a particular type of wet day).
Climbing trees.
Crayons.

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foundling
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Picking my nose
Wetting the bed
Being afraid of the dark
Stealing cookies from the cookie jar and lying about it with crumbs falling from my mouth

[Razz]

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camus
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eating an Oreo
anything in the rain
Duck Hunt
sand castles
skipping rocks
paper airplanes
roasting marshmallows
air guitar
daydreaming

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living at home
playing with legos
looking at the toy sections of the ads with envy

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Eating ice cream for dinner, or breakfast for that matter.
Building forts in the living room.
Singing and dancing up and down the aisles in a grocery store.
Disney movies.

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Goody Scrivener
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Trying to identify the childhood things that I won't give up is too mature a behavior for me to indulge in... LOL

CART SURFING!!! My kids think I'm crazy, I go cart surfing every single week!

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Laughing and conversing, with equal loudness, with my friends, in public. Shouting from hotel balconies, at eleven at night, in downtown Athens, making the woman down the hall mad (like everyone in Athens, including me, she had a 3:00 AM flight.) Okay, so the later I have only done once, but the former is my favorite pastime.
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Bouncing up and down when I'm happy.
Running around with my arms outstretched just because I feel like it (especially when I'm running down a hill).
Skipping.
Crunching autumn leaves.
Playing in the snow.
Chasing squirrels and pigeons.
Swinging on swingsets.
Making faces at people.
Running through sprinklers.
Randomly singing and/or making strange noises.
Eating animal crackers.
Eating celery with peanut butter.

And does "cart surfing" mean riding around on a shopping cart while you're pushing it? If so, I do that too.

~Jane~

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El JT de Spang
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Something else I'll never outgrow is eating cheese and crackers or PB&J for a meal.
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Building things with Leggos and Lincoln Logs.
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Yank
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quote:
Building things with Leggos and Lincoln Logs.
I'll second that. I'll play with Legos for hours if given the chance. Greatest....toy....ever.
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Be courteous, kind and forgiving,
Be gentle and peaceful each day,
Be warm and human and grateful,
And have a good thing to say.

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike,
Be witty and happy and wise,
Be honest and love all your neighbours,
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.

Be pompus, obese, and eat cactus,
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent,
Criticize things you don't know about,
Be oblong and have your knees removed.

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive,
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional,
Put a live chicken in your underwear,
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival.

Alternate last line:
Go into a closet and suck eggs.

Courtesy of Steve Martin, Philosopher Extraordinaire

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Lisa
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Galaga/Galaxians/Tempest/Arkenoid
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Arkanoid! It's absolutely un-outgrowable. But my game broke, and I don't know of anywhere nearby that has it.

swings!

birthday parties

I'm not thinking very well right now, maybe I'll figure out what else I'm doing that's childlike a little later. And now, back to that homework.

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Laughing loudly over something stupid while waving my hands up and down with pure joy.
Walmart hockey!
Watching disney movies and children's movies.
Reading children's books.
laughing over my goofy rabbit
painting the walls with random splotches of blue paint
making up really stupid songs (though the lyrics are a bit raunchier than when I was a kid)
picking up random leaves and rocks
staring at snowflakes
wanting to make a large snowman instead of just little ones.
action figures
really wanting to build a castle out of wooden blocks just to knock it over
dancing around in a stupid uncool sort of way.
video games
collecting shells
kicking around in leaves

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Eating cookie dough
Pressing every button in the noisy toy aisle
Playing with Legos
Video games
Giggling about farts
Dancing like an idiot
Playing with matches
Getting dizzy on the merry-go-round at the park
Popping bubble wrap
Balancing on and walking along curb edges

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I forgot about cookie dough and cake batter.
Mmm cake batter.
And bubble wrap, that is some fun stuff.
Making messes and not cleaning them up >.<
And giggling over really just the stupidest raunchiest jokes.... raunchy in a childish way.
Oh, and laughing about puns.

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I still sleep with a teddy. [Smile]
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Skipping, playing tag, playing hide-and-seek, talking to my mom like a little girl, popping bubble wrap and hitting back when someone hits me. Oh! And I'm still the queen of the monkey bars!
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Yes, I sleep with teddy bears too.

and my blankie.

I'm having trouble distinguishing between adult-like and child-like habits..

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Altįriėl of Dorthonion
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quote:
Originally posted by esl:


I'm having trouble distinguishing between adult-like and child-like habits..

Ha! Join the club.
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Oh, yeah, choc. chip cookie dough! If I disappear from Hatrack, it's probably due to salmonella poisoning! (that's the one you can get from raw eggs, right?)
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Supposedly, according to my parents, I should have "outgrown" things including but not limited to:

Cartoons
Fantasy novels
Video Games(like DDR and Final Fantasy, which no one too young would understand anyway...)
Sleepovers
Science Fiction(it's a tragedy that my mother wanted me to get rid of Ender's Game. Even my signed copy, she wanted to get rid of. "It's just clutter." NO!!! Those are my prized possesions!)
Manga
Random foreign languages(like Japanese and Italian)
Coloring books(which I use after exams to releave stress)

etc., etc. I find it ridiculous that I should have "outgrown" these things by now. I'm 17. I'm not an adult yet. Can't I have fun when I'm young? Does anyone else find this weird?

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Singing in public
Playing board and card games (and not just bridge, poker, or pinnochole...)
Doodling on scrap paper
Reading comic books... Er, graphic novels [Smile]

Oh, incidentally, old videogame afficionados: are you aware of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)? http://www.mame.net

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