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[superbadgirl]

I don't like wintergreen gum. I like wintergreen mints, but gum is gross.

I just got back from downstairs. On my way down there, I took the back steps, formerly servant's staircase. These stairs are very steep and always make me paranoid I'm going to go head over heels down them - I've tried many a time, but always caught myself. Anyway, I was carrying things in my hands and thought to myself, "I should just go bum-bum down them." Bum-bum being the phrase my brothers, sisters and I used to use when we'd plop down on our butts and ease from step to step on down.

Bum-bum. I haven't thought about that for years and now I can't get it out of my head. It also prompted memories of how we'd play "Pills." Basically, one of the two upstairs bedrooms (usually the girls' room - it was bigger because there were more of us) was the mouth of a gigantic being, the stairs the throat/esophagus and the dining area where the stairs led the stomach. We'd go all crazy-ass down the stairs, as pills, and end up in the acidic stomach. We'd swirl around and around and around.

It occurs to me that I should send a card to my mother. I have no idea how she remained sane all those years.

PS, I find Today's Dilbert very freaking funny for some reason.

Comments

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

Stories like that make me wish I'd had siblings.

Not that I didn't go right ahead and do stuff like that all by myself. ;)

[superbadgirl]

I've got a couple to spare. Want a brother or a sister? Oh, you can have my sister, her husband and their kid.

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

Nah, thanks. It wouldn't mean as much now. :-D

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Bum-bum. I haven't thought about that for years and now I can't get it out of my head. It also prompted memories of how we'd play "Pills." Basically, one of the two upstairs bedrooms (usually the girls' room - it was bigger because there were more of us) was the mouth of a gigantic being, the stairs the throat/esophagus and the dining area where the stairs led the stomach. We'd go all crazy-ass down the stairs, as pills, and end up in the acidic stomach. We'd swirl around and around and around.

ROTFL!!! That's the exact sort of thing my kids used to play.