Your absolute earliest concrete memory?

**Frownland** · 01-25-2015, 01:24 PM

GuD · 01-25-2015, 01:28 PM

Probably the time I got caught stealing gum from the supermarket. After my mom lectured me and explained to the cops (there were cops) that I was just a kid (I was like 5) we got in the car. She turned on the radio and I **** you not "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction came on instantly.

Also remember getting glasses for the first time.
And eating starbursts/getting life lessons from my godmother at a coffee shop.

~~Cuthbert~~ · 01-25-2015, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

Does anyone remember watching Princess Diana's funeral? I hadn't sobbed so much as a child, as I did over that.

Yeah. Got a bollocking off my dad for telling a Diana joke I heard off someone in school. I was 8.

Unreal thinking about 9/11 now. Seeing that live on telly (I didn't see it myself cos I was in school but the fact it happened like that).

**Frownland** · 01-25-2015, 03:38 PM

I was seven and I thought my dad was watching a film that moved him so much that he decided that I wasn't going to school that day.

Pet_Sounds · 01-25-2015, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

9/11 was one of the most absolutely gripping things I had ever seen on tv. Class was essentially cancelled for the day because nobody could really fully absorb what had happened and it was just so shocking to see someone fly a fucking plane into a building.

It was raining that morning. My (grade 7?) social studies teacher, who was typically a loud-mouthed republican asshole, said nothing. Nothing. We all sat in silence.

Does anyone remember watching Princess Diana's funeral? I hadn't sobbed so much as a child, as I did over that.

I hadn't been born yet. But I was named after her.

RoxyRollah · 01-25-2015, 05:21 PM

I remember nothing before age 9.

**Janszoon** · 01-25-2015, 07:24 PM

One of my earliest memories is asking my mother how old I was and her saying, "Three and a quarter". At that age I had no idea what "a quarter" meant so I immediately had a mental image of myself flipping a twenty-five cent coin.

EPOCH6 · 01-25-2015, 11:25 PM

I'm 21 right now and I think my earliest lasting memory is my parents bringing home our second dog when I was two years old, vague visual recollections of crawling into its kennel and hanging out with him. I have vague memories of my third Christmas, at least of the decorations around the house. I have a memory of scraping my knee hiking at the age of 4. And of course a whole bunch of memories from early elementary school and beyond.

**Yac** · 01-27-2015, 07:18 AM

My earliest memory is something I only realized recently I had, but when I did I felt it with full force.
I was 4 or so, it was summer. We were living in the country, my mother was washing dishes or doing something in the kitchen, she was listening to "Paint it black" by the Rolling Stones, on vinyl.
I remember sitting there, listening to words I couldn't understand back then, looking at the light coming through the windows ... and that's it. It really came back to me only after she died, and now I cherish it like no other memory.

~~James~~ · 01-27-2015, 09:20 AM

9/11 was the day after my sixth birthday and to be honest I don't think I thought much of the events other than 'this is taking the attention away from my birthday!'.

01-25-2015, 01:24 PM	#21 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	__________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-25-2015, 01:28 PM	#22 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	Probably the time I got caught stealing gum from the supermarket. After my mom lectured me and explained to the cops (there were cops) that I was just a kid (I was like 5) we got in the car. She turned on the radio and I **** you not "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction came on instantly. Also remember getting glasses for the first time. And eating starbursts/getting life lessons from my godmother at a coffee shop. __________________ I spit bullets in my feet Every time I speak So I write instead And still people want me dead ~msc

01-25-2015, 03:38 PM	#24 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I was seven and I thought my dad was watching a film that moved him so much that he decided that I wasn't going to school that day. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

01-25-2015, 07:24 PM	#27 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	One of my earliest memories is asking my mother how old I was and her saying, "Three and a quarter". At that age I had no idea what "a quarter" meant so I immediately had a mental image of myself flipping a twenty-five cent coin. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

01-27-2015, 07:18 AM	#29 (permalink)
Yac Super Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: It's a secret too. Posts: 1,363	My earliest memory is something I only realized recently I had, but when I did I felt it with full force. I was 4 or so, it was summer. We were living in the country, my mother was washing dishes or doing something in the kitchen, she was listening to "Paint it black" by the Rolling Stones, on vinyl. I remember sitting there, listening to words I couldn't understand back then, looking at the light coming through the windows ... and that's it. It really came back to me only after she died, and now I cherish it like no other memory.

01-27-2015, 09:20 AM	#30 (permalink)
~~James~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 4,483	9/11 was the day after my sixth birthday and to be honest I don't think I thought much of the events other than 'this is taking the attention away from my birthday!'.