Whats Your Earliest Memory?

Josie_dub · 23-01-2009 04:53PM

Trying to break out of my cot and being so frustrated everytime I failed, that and twisting my soother around and around until it wouldn't twist anymore and then letting it go, hurt but I did it all the time.

PurpleBerry · 23-01-2009 05:03PM

I remember when I was very young and lived in a pub. I woke up one morning and the place was silent as a grave. For whatever reason, or whatever movie I had been watching the night before, I got it into my head that I was probably dead and now a spirit walking the Earth. For some reason.

I wasn't panicked or scared but it wasn't more than a half an hour before I realised that I wasn't dead after all. I think I must've ran into one of my parents or someone working in the pub or something. I don't remember. I only remember the odd "Hmm, am I dead?" feeling. It wasn't altogether unpleasent.

Tbh I've never had a lot of childhood memories. I never even realised that this was odd until much later on, hearing people talking about things they remember doing when they were four or five or so.

Pherekydes · 23-01-2009 05:07PM

28th June 1963. JFK's visit. I was 3 years, 2 months. I may have memories from before that, but I can't be absolutely definite about my age.

jimbling · 23-01-2009 05:08PM

Setting my house on fire while playing with matches. I was 5*
It was Epic.

* I do have one earlier memory, but just doesn't have the same spark too it

TPD · 23-01-2009 05:39PM

I think mine was looking out the window of a creche at my mum heading to work. Would have been 2-ish.

It's weird though, I can remember nursery quite well, from when I was about 3-4. I can remember talking pretty perfectly (for a kid with a speaking disorder), but a friend's younger brother who is 3ish can barely get a sentence out, and definitly not understandably. I don't know if I'm a genius or my friends brother is retarded.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 23-01-2009 05:44PM

I remember distinctly crawling on the floor on my hands and knees and being picked up by my Dad. I would've been less than a year old, I think.

Davidius · 23-01-2009 08:15PM

Waking up.

Somebody was shouting "It's alive!". I shut them up though.

girloperfection · 23-01-2009 08:30PM

Going to my nana's house and she was in bed sick and i sat on the chair at the end of the bed and she gave me an orange!!

earlyevening · 23-01-2009 08:34PM

Sitting on my Dad's shoulders watching the Pope mobile come past the Cat n Cage in Drumcondra during the Pope's visit in 1979.

I'm not so devout anymore.

YDMHSSB · 23-01-2009 08:40PM

being in hospital when i was about 2/3 and robbing some sweets from the nurses desk and then getting in trouble for it.

m83 · 23-01-2009 08:46PM

Sucking my mams tits.

Well, it was just the other day :rolleyes:

Sam Vimes · 23-01-2009 11:05PM

i was at the breakfast table eating breakfast out of my favourite bosco bowl. There was something exciting on the tv so i pointed and shouted "look" and knocked the bowl onto the ground.

Then i burst into tears

I was 20

m83 · 23-01-2009 11:06PM

20 what? spoons? Jeez! How rude of you!

XxXciaraxXx · 23-01-2009 11:14PM

Climbing the wall in my back garden when I was 4 and falling on a nail that ripped my knee open! And then to be told when I was 23 that my mam had sued the council and the money was there for me when I wanted it!! Best fall ever!!

m83 · 23-01-2009 11:17PM

How much moneys?!

XxXciaraxXx · 23-01-2009 11:22PM

Enough to buy me a house (not in full), a new car, 2 trips to new york and get my sis a car. And I invested some! Stupid sensible side came out and wouldnt let me go mad!

m83 · 23-01-2009 11:26PM

Gimme some! Gosh, you have it too easy!

/begrudge

23-01-2009 11:34PM

Sitting on a hill on in Clondalkin watching cars go by, I seem to remember a tan coloured CIE bus on the road. Must have been 3 or 4.

Loveless · 23-01-2009 11:39PM

Remember the Pope coming to Ireland in 1979. I was 1 year and 10 months old..

AckwelFoley · 24-01-2009 12:00AM

I remember my first steps..

circa 1978

Hank Scorpio · 24-01-2009 12:01AM

i got 4 but i cant determine what time frame sorry

My mother pushing me in a pram to the post office

my grand da dieing and not noing wtf was going on

Me getting a cheap ass gun from pound city for my 5/6/7 birthday

Getting my first crush and rejecting her about 100 times even tho she wanted me too? Doesnt make sence now, but ye i did end up making up for it , if u no what i mean

those 4 things really stand out in my childhood,

nice thread

Fozzie Bear · 24-01-2009 12:27AM

My earliest memory is being at mass with my Mother and Granny. I was sitting there bored off my t1ts (was about 4 or 5) and happened to look across the aisle at the other row of pews. My uncle Paddy was sitting there with my cousin Una who was around the same age as me. She was on the floor crawling around between peoples legs and pews and generally looking like she was having a hell of a lot more fun then me. So I decided I'll have some of that and got down and started messing about. Whatever way i looked over at Una I got it into my head that she had squeezed through the legs of the pew a gap of approx 4/5 inches. She obviously had not but i decided I was doing it. So I got into the main aisle way, went down on my hands and knees and shoved my head through the 4/5 inch gap. It quickly dawned on me that this was as far as I could go so I pulled back. However my two ears trapped me in and I could not get out. So my body was out in the aisle way while my head was stuck in the legs of the pew. Naturally I started to bellow at the top of my lungs for mammy to help me. This was in the middle of mass circa 1984 with a tyranical cranky old fecker of a priest called father Harte. My mortified mother and Granny sat there stoney faced ignoring my frustrated roars for help while Fr Harte repeatedly stopped mass to demeand from the alter that someone quieten that child! Mass dragged on for the full hour and 20 minutes (but it must have seemed like years to my mother and granny) and they then had to sit there while the congregation stepped over my prostrate legs and lower torso as they left the church and smile as they got dirty looks from some of the more zealous religious types. When the church was finally empty the got up grabbed a leg each and hauled me free without any concern for my ears. I spent the next week with red lugs and was not brought to mass again for several years.

One of my mothers earlier memories of me (apart from above) was pushing me around the basilica in Knock in my chair while I screamed "FúCK" at the top of my voice. I was about 2 and had picked up a bad word from someone. The more they sushed me and tried to keep me quiet the more I roared. Houses of God and a young me never really seemed to work......

Biggins · 24-01-2009 12:31AM

Earliest memory?

Having money - after next week it will become a vague memory!

MizzLolly · 24-01-2009 12:35AM

Walking with my sister and our dog up by the secondary school.

Some idiot teenage boy trying to smother me with a pillow.

Being in hospital and talking to a surgeon called Billy who was playing with my teddy frog that sang Christmas songs.

Ann22 · 24-01-2009 01:24AM

Lying flat on my back in a cot or pram or something, arms and legs waving in the air and crying. A door opened and someone, probably my mother lifted me up and took me into another room where a woman with long dark hair nursed me for a while (think this must've been my auntie Nora 'cos she was meant to have long hair yrs ago). I was put back into the cot in the other room when I'd calmed down. I remember not being able to think clearly or speak but I knew I wanted up and to be cuddled. I can remember the smell of plaster, the smell you get in a new house. The house i was reared in was newly built and we moved into it from my nanny's when I was a year old so this memory was probably when I was barely over that 'cos I know I wasn't able to pull myself up to stand. Has anyone else an earlier memory?

DanGerMus · 24-01-2009 01:29AM

Eh honestly it is probably... My Ma.

fatherbuzcagney · 24-01-2009 02:09AM

cant remember anything, so my earliest memory was now?

Flipz4Rollz · 24-01-2009 02:16AM

Strangely enough it was my aunt giving out to me for scratching my ass.
I think I was like 4.

K-9 · 24-01-2009 03:15AM

Ann22 wrote: »

Lying flat on my back in a cot or pram or something, arms and legs waving in the air and crying. A door opened and someone, probably my mother lifted me up and took me into another room where a woman with long dark hair nursed me for a while (think this must've been my auntie Nora 'cos she was meant to have long hair yrs ago). I was put back into the cot in the other room when I'd calmed down. I remember not being able to think clearly or speak but I knew I wanted up and to be cuddled. I can remember the smell of plaster, the smell you get in a new house. The house i was reared in was newly built and we moved into it from my nanny's when I was a year old so this memory was probably when I was barely over that 'cos I know I wasn't able to pull myself up to stand. Has anyone else an earlier memory?

Something similar, getting a toy when I was in the cot.

Was in a pretty new Garda barracks though!

Cue AH Jokes!

Overflow · 24-01-2009 03:21AM

Sticking a tiny piece of lego up me nose and trying to pry it loose with a pencil.

Whats Your Earliest Memory?

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