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Okay, so it just popped into my head that I have a number of funny stories to tell you, and as I am writing this I regret putting "funny" in the title because now I am thinking of ones that aren't funny at all. But anyways - here are some stories in case you want them :)

I don't remember how old I was; maybe 2 or 3? It was a running joke in the family; I know that now. But I thought that that was what it was really called. My dad often went around the house jiggling his little hump of belly fat slightly between his fingers and saying "Fat!" to little baby me. Then one day, he asked me to name parts of his body: "What's this, [Click]?" "Ear." In my little voice, I began reciting parts of him: "What's this?" "Nose!" "That's right! And what about this?" He pinched his belly here, and I went "Fat!" They cracked up. This clip was caught on camera when my parents tried (and succeeded) to reenact it and it was submitted to my school's Funniest Home Videos event. It was the funniest one there, mind you, especially since people just thought I was roasting my dad. But I really thought that that was just what my dad's belly was called. This happens often; I unintentionally make jokes and then people laugh and I don't understand. I don't mind much, though.

Another thing that's an iconic feature of mine is that I went around being super literal when I was a kid; I'd go around saying things and correcting people for their literal meanings, even though they were right. I used to never, ever be able to admit when I was wrong. So I guess my dad once said, in response to one of these "too literal" incidents of mine, "Okay, Captain Literal." And I said, "I'm not a captain!" Then he threw that back at me whenever I was literal for the next decade. It was funny, though.

There's a board game called Encore, which is where you're on a team against (I think only one other) another team. You are given a word and each team has to take turns singing parts of songs with that word in it within a certain amount of time. I think that my family and I were all playing Encore together when this happened; my mom was trying to think of a song that was on the tip of her tongue. She gave a little fart while thinking, and on a whim, I said, "Guess your creative juices were flowing the wrong way. You thought too hard." I said that (not word for word, I think I messed up the joke). Out of nowhere. She didn't stop laughing for a good five to ten minutes or so.

One time, I was preparing for a cooking badge at my virtual Girl Scout troop meeting with my mom, and one of the ingredients was cabbage. It was lying on the counter and we left it there to do something quickly; when we came back, apparently we had misplaced it or something, because it wasn't there anymore. We started searching, and my mom said, "Where could it have gone?! Did it grow legs and walk away or something?" To which I replied, "Cabbages don't have legs, only heads." It's not often I make her laugh so hard she can't breathe (it really wasn't that funny, in my opinion), so I enjoyed this.

Will probably edit more in later, gotta do my homework :)