What's your earliest memory?

ozpass

This is about as retro as it gets for most people:

What's your very earliest memory?

I'm certain that I remember lying in my cot and seeing my Grandma and Grandad peer around the door to look at me. That's more than likely a figment of my imagination though.

My earliest substantiated memory is holding my newly born baby bro' for a cheesy family photograph. This would make me 4 years old. Quite amusing really as the guy in question (my 'little' brother) is now 6 foot 3" and built like a brick s**thouse!

smoke.me.a.kipper

i remember playing on a little mailvan (you know the little plastic things you sit on and 'drive') and banging it into a door. i was about 3-4 yrs old at the time.

Mr.Applepie

My first memory would be going swimming in a florida motel which some relatives of mine owned. I was 4 at the time me thinks

Raife

My first memory was when I was 2 or 3 and I was in my cott at night and wanted to get out so I tried and ended up having one leg out and the other in, and that was from the top.


T'was sore...


Ltr!!
Raife!!

ozpass

My kid brother did something similar with a split-door we had. Over the top, cracked his noggin on a concrete step and landed in a load of snow.

Not a scratch on him, much to my mother's delight!

Victor

Similar thread, here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66066, I've asked Gordon to send it over.

Gordon

Ooh I forgot about that!
Victor did you send me a mail or PM?

anyway that thread is now in ATR board!

Victor

Originally posted by Gordon
Ooh I forgot about that! Victor did you send me a mail or PM?

Wow u are efficient! I only just asked

Gordon

They don't call me 'Flash' Gordon for nothing you know
"They don't call you Flash Gordon at all though" etc

Sent you a reply pm but your mail is full Victor.

(Actually in retrospect (hehe) I think that my first memory was in a bed when a thief came in to my room to steal my Tonka truck maybe)

mike65

My first retained experience was when I was 3, and was walking back up the garden with my dad, very mundane I know but it stuck proberly because like all young boys I was aping his movment, he was whilstling so I tried (!) and he had his hands in his pockets so I did too. It was a foggy cold day.

Mike.

The Reaper

the earlest i can think of is wen i was around 5! i got strung in the arse by a bumlebee! i pulled my trousers down and put vinegar on me arse! daddy seen me and laughed his head off whilst i was crying the hole time! aw! feel sorry 4 me!

ozpass

I feel sorry for the poor sod who wanted vinegar on their chips after the incident;)

billy the squid

earliest memory i have it was being in the living room of my parents house and it was pouring with rain outside. nicole's a little peace was on the radio. though i didnt know who or whatit was at the time. i was 5

sunbeam

Sitting in my pram having photo taken by American cousin when I was about a year. Walking by myself over to my granny (with heart in mouth) for first time when I was about 18 months and NOT falling. I could walk well before that but was too scared to do it without holding on to anything. Sitting on Granny's lap while our first TV was being set up when I was two. Loads of stuff after that.....:D

Praetorian

4mb of 100ns crappy ram..sugar wrong section.

Playing with my cat Spikeh when i was about 4. Used to have great wrestling matches with him. ;( Evil Neighbour poisened him when i was 10.

evie

Damn the evil neighbour
Mine was at the tender age of 3 and 3/4s. I used to go to a plyaschool down the road but the only thing I can remember (possibly because it was the coolest thing EVER) is the indoor swing! I can remember looking at someone on it and thinking "GET OFF!"

aine

I remember my first steps, I was one ish i suppose and I was on holiday with my family in Kerry, it was on a bit of grassy land at the top of the beach, funny thing is even though I remember things like that from when I was super young practically all of primary school is an incredible blank to me! weird huh?

Space Coyote

My earliest vivid memory was when I reversed my Dad's car out the drive-way onto the road. Me and my younger brother tried to push it back up the drive, with my littlest bro still in the back seat.

I was 4. Can't remember if I was punished, everythings a blur after then ...

theciscokid

nice memories of my grandfather programming his own games on the atari 2600, also his messing around on the scanner picking up police radio waves etc..

i wish the fascination had stuck back then , time to catch up

theciscokid

Originally posted by aine
I remember my first steps, I was one ish i suppose and I was on holiday with my family in Kerry, it was on a bit of grassy land at the top of the beach, funny thing is even though I remember things like that from when I was super young practically all of primary school is an incredible blank to me! weird huh?

fcuk me, how can you remember back that early

nerd

DMC

Good thread!

I can remember the exact day of my earliest, most vivid memory. Me and my brother and sister stayed at a neighbours house watching Noel Edmonds on Swap Shop on a colour TV (a novelty in itself to us!) when the rest of the clan went to Drogheda for the Pope's visit.

Saturday 29th September 1979. I would've been approaching my 3rd birthday.

The Reaper

Originally posted by ozpass
I feel sorry for the poor sod who wanted vinegar on their chips after the incident;)

AW GOOD ONE NEVER THAUGHT OF DAT AW WELL WHO EVER WAS THEY WERE PROBALY LAUGHING AT ME NEWAY BUT I SUPPOSE I GOT THE LAST LAUGH!

Dampsquid

My earliest memory would be standing up in my cot and crying. I'm not sure how old i was, but must have been fairly young to be still in a cot. Also remember a christmas when i was two and a half. Not sure which came first.

Drunk pirate

My first memory is when I was in the hospital with my mam (Four or Five) waiting to see my new baby sister. When the baby came out my dad pulled out a box of shortbread and said they were from Caitriona. I was astounded!

The shortbread was connected to a movie me and my dad liked. some song with a giant whale dancing and singing about shortbread. Can't remember it.

OLDYELLAR

the one thing i remember most clearly from being a kid is when my sister kicked out one of my new baby teeth , when we were fighting , but she didnt mean to kick the tooth out , just to kick me , an i was jus roaring and roaring and me mammy went absolutely mental oer it

evie

Speaking of Noel Edmunds, don't remeber swap shop at all, but do remember Noel's house Party. Oh for a house like that! Remember the gunge tank??? I used to live for Mr Blobby in the early days!

DriftingRain

I know mine is kinda crazy but ...here goes...
I remember my family all in the garden and my mother was inside getting me juice when I saw my little brother in the stroller sitting on the back deck...I remember pushing him off the deck and my mother running outta the house yellin at me and then getting a big ol arse whippin!:p

ozpass

I have plenty of fond memories of laying beats on my kid brother, but they aren't necessarily my earliest.

Mad_Patrick

My earliest memory was when I was about 3 , I was out the back yard standing on a trailer that I used to pull around with me for some reason, and it was upsidedown and I was standing on it and spinning the wheels. Ah the good ol days

Ixidor

My earliest (i think) is when my tricycle got stolen form me i have no idea how old i was but i do remember not being very confident walking......*


*(no great change really)

woolymammoth

mine is sitting in a big yellow tub infront of the fire getting a bath. when i asked my dad about later, he said i was only a couple of months old, no more than a year anyways. my second earliest memory is on my second birthday sitting infront of the cake
after that there's an eighteen and a half year gap!!! go figure