Sometimes action figures would come with some kind of movement. You could lift their arm and it would spring back into place.  Well, I twisted one of my GI Joes only to discover that it would twist back similar to other action figures. I also found that they could be twisted almost a complete 360 degrees and they would spring back into their normal orientation.  Unfortunately, the Joes weren't intended to be twisted in such a fashion.  One time I twisted one of them and it broke.  The body fell off of the legs.  Then I was able to see why.  Basically, the top was connected to the bottom by a glorified rubber band.  After I discovered that, I stopped twisting them, but I started taking them apart to see if you could put one Joe's body on another Joe's legs.  It was very difficult and there were casualties.

I don't know why I remember this.

I remember that we had a teacher that we used to make fun of. She was our Home Economics teacher. She was overweight and short and had large breasts. We called her "Torpedo T---". You can guess what we called her.

Me and my friend Chris put a character in our book called "Torpedo T---".

I feel really bad about it though because it was cruel and she didn't do anything to deserve it.

It was fourth grade and I was in Mrs. McCurdy's class.  She was a great teacher overall, but I take issue with one thing.  In pairs of two, the students researched a country together.  After their research, they gave reports on their country.  Wesley Derryberry and I researched Yugoslavia.  Before our report, I told the teacher that I needed to go to the bathroom.  She said I could not go.      Wesley started out and was reporting as I crossed my legs and tried to keep from peeing.  I couldn't hold it any longer.  I felt the warm liquid run down my leg and saw it begin to puddle by my feet.  It was quite embarrassing!  My friends were in that class as well as a girl I liked at the time - Elissa Shires.
    I walked over to the teacher and told her that I peed my pants.  I was sent to the office where they gave me a dry pair of pants and my dad came and picked me up and took me . . . Read More..

I remember we were doing a video in my class about the planets. We went outside and each person was teamed up with someone else. Each team represented a planet or the sun. We lined up outside the high school away from each other proportional to the distance between the planets. The video camera would come to each team and they would say what planet they were and give some facts. My team member was Jeff Williams. I do not remember what our planet was. I do remember that, as the video camera went to the next planet, I screamed "Mortal Kombat!" The movie trailers were out at the time and someone screams that at the end.

I have a memory that I am not sure if it is a memory or a dream.  From the content of it though, it has to be a dream.  It was at my parents' first house.  I woke up and noticed that I didn't have my blanket with me.  I walked down to the basement to get it.  My parents had this tall picture of Charlie Chaplain down there.  When I went down there, I either heard the picture talking or it moved or something.  I was frightened and ran back upstairs.  Weird memory.