What are the little things disappointed you a kid?

freshpopcorn · 09-03-2020 05:43PM #1

My aunt told me she was bringing me to the circus and Mcdolnalds She brought me to see the tent from the outside and to Supermacs.

What are the things disappointed you a kid?

I know by the way. This is a terrible thread.

Raconteuse · 09-03-2020 05:44PM

Not being able to break the tv and take Bosco out.

Rufeo · 09-03-2020 05:44PM

I'm not sure the things disappointed me a kid.

Ikozma · 09-03-2020 05:47PM

Nothing disappointed me as a kid tbh, adult disappointments, now that's a thread.

LirW · 09-03-2020 05:48PM

I was a gullible child and fell for the Disney propaganda. Biggest dream was go to Disneyland.
When I was around 6 my grandma, a first class bint, went into very explicit details on why this place was sh*t when they visited.
Was hugely disappointed and haven't gotten over it to this day.

julyjane · 09-03-2020 05:52PM

Asking Santa for a Barbie doll but getting Sindy.
Not getting Mr Frosty or a Fashion wheel

partyguinness · 09-03-2020 05:53PM

Anytime Ireland lost under Jack Charlton- traumatizing.

Watching Ireland losing for the first time v. Holland and then Spain both in 1988 a few months apart. Absolutely gutted.

Gynoid · 09-03-2020 06:07PM

I got a hair dryer for Christmas as my big present when I still mostly believed, and I was hugely disappointed in Santa's distinct absence of magical thinking.

biko · 09-03-2020 06:11PM

Finding an ice cream bucket in the freezer

It was full of veggie soup :mad:

banie01 · 09-03-2020 06:20PM

My 1st blowjob...
No matter how much communion wine I gargled...
The taste just wouldn't wash out

odyssey06 · 09-03-2020 06:23PM

I thought Guinness would taste like a canned coke float... I may have mischieviously drained the end of a can one christmas time and yuck no

vriesmays · 09-03-2020 06:47PM

Waterford in the 1980s.

Ubbquittious · 09-03-2020 10:22PM

When you tipp ex something, discovering the stuff you wrote still exists below the tipp ex

lucalux · 09-03-2020 10:26PM

Adults,
Religion,
God,
Tooth Fairy,
Santa Claus,
Society in general,

In that order.
I was an inquistive child, and it did me no good at all really!

Bio Mech · 09-03-2020 10:33PM

That the elbows and knees on Star Wars figures didn’t bend.

That it took ten minutes to transform some transformers. Not the two seconds it did in the cartoon. Ten whole minutes making that transformy noise.

Silentcorner · 09-03-2020 10:34PM

Sixmilebridge...I don't think I was ever so disappointed when I eventually passed through it!!

09-03-2020 11:03PM

My first fallen tooth fell out in my grandparents house and they played tooth fairy extremely generously by putting a £10 note under my pillow. The next one fell out at home, and I woke up thinking I'd doubled my fortune with
another crisp tenner, but found a pound instead. What a heartsink, I still feel the disappointment when I think about it.

That and finding out the truth about Santa when I was very young.

Samsgirl · 09-03-2020 11:08PM

Not getting a Mr Frosty from Santa

Sorry about that · 09-03-2020 11:31PM

The Santa thing got me like a kick in the guts. My Dad said "I've something to tell you; do you know what it might be?" I said "There's no such thing as Santa?" "That's right".
Off I went to bed, and cried and cried. I was 26.
Only jokin, 9.

09-03-2020 11:35PM

I wanted "a red car" for Christmas but I got a Tiny Tears doll. I was completely despondent and I never played with it, I never played with any dolls.

But my third birthday was just two months after and I was given a red toy Ferrari, so I forgive them. I actually have no memory of playing with the car either though.

julyjane · 09-03-2020 11:41PM

Samsgirl wrote: »

Not getting a Mr Frosty from Santa

as some kind of self-compensation I bought a Mr Frosty "for my daughter" about 10 or 12 years ago - now that was a disappointment and I totally understand why Santa thought it wise not to bring me one. Still wouldn't admit that to my parents though

the purple tin · 09-03-2020 11:50PM

The common theme of not getting something you really wanted for birthday or Christmas.
As I grew up and looked back on it I realised that most of those things were really expensive at the time and my folks didn't have much money to spend on presents. They always did the best they could though.
Quite ashamed to remember that I was a little **** for constantly badgering my Ma for a certain toy, then throwing a tantrum when I got something else.

Raconteuse · 09-03-2020 11:55PM

Not being able to break the tv and take out the toys featured in ads.

Leg End Reject · 10-03-2020 12:02AM

My parents went on only one childfree holiday and I was promised a present, the excitement was palpable.

On their return I was ceremoniously presented with a .... pencil case. To this day, I have yet to see an uglier pencil case.

I'm still in therapy.

Your Face · 10-03-2020 12:19AM

My classmates when I started school.

freshpopcorn · 10-03-2020 12:33AM

Also when I seven my aunt sent me a girls card for my Birthday!

JupiterKid · 10-03-2020 12:38AM

Covetously eyeing that colourful biscuit tin up in the kitchen press, finally getting to open it, and...

...just bits and bobs stored in it. No butter biccies!

The absolutely ****e state of the roads in Ireland - compared to the motorways and duallers galore up North when going up to visit my many relatives. I loved motorways, airports and shopping centres as a young child - and was very jealous that pretty much every other Western country had far better roads than we did.

pablo128 · 10-03-2020 12:41AM

I was quite a good speller in school. Imagine my excitement when they announced there was a spelling test with a prize for the winner. It was a car shaped pencil parer, a very fancy looking thing. I knew I had it in the bag tbh. Sure enough, I was announced the victor. Off the teacher went to fetch my prize, only to discover some b0llox was after robbing it. I got some piece of cheap tat instead. I was gutted.

I still remember it 35 years later.

cannotlogin · 10-03-2020 12:43AM

When the blue part of the eraser tore the page instead of removing biro!

Leg End Reject · 10-03-2020 12:59AM

cannotlogin wrote: »

When the blue part of the eraser tore the page instead of removing biro!

And I still kept trying, one bitter disappointment after another.

monkeysnapper · 10-03-2020 01:08AM

Mine was I had got these really cool diamonds out of top of fridge and hid them in a bag in my room ...only to come back later and not only had someone stoll them they poured water in my bag ...

I remember going down stairs and shouting at my sisters who are both 4 and 5 years older than me about what they must have done and getting angrier and angrier as they laughed....

What are the little things disappointed you a kid?

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