Childhood Guilt

Whispered · 31-01-2009 08:23PM #1

I was thinking today about when we first moved house when I was about 5. My best friend Jamie who lived two doors down ran out to wave us off. I remember him in the bosco slippers we got his for his birthday racing down the driveway. I was very upset because of the move and didn't want him to see me cry so instead of waving back, I ducked under the window and stared at the window lever. So the last memory I have of him, and he has of me, is me ignoring him.

I still feel slightly guilty over it.

Another one is when I was maybe 6, a press fell on my mam, instead of running to get help like a good daughter, I panicked and stood at the door screaming. Luckily my dad got back from work just at that moment and pulled her out from under a mountain of cups etc. Then I got upset that my Tom & Gerry mug that I got for easter was broken when I should have been worried about her! I still feel bad over that too!

Does anybody else have something silly and childish they did that still occasionally plays on their mind.

auditek923 · 31-01-2009 08:27PM

i used to get upset/shame about **** . but now i dont

Hogzy · 31-01-2009 08:27PM

I stole some Premier league stickers from my friends house and my parents caught me with them the next day, how they knew i stole them ill never know...I must ask actually!

I had to give them back myself... SO SHAMEFUL!!!

AckwelFoley · 31-01-2009 08:29PM

I had high hopes for this thread.

I leave disappointed

Whispered · 31-01-2009 08:30PM

Hogzy wrote: »

I stole some Premier league stickers from my friends house and my parents caught me with them the next day, how they knew i stole them ill never know...I must ask actually!

I had to give them back myself... SO SHAMEFUL!!!

Some friend :rolleyes:

:P:P:P

Terry · 31-01-2009 08:35PM

Jaysus. That house you moved to wasn't very safe, was it?

Whispered · 31-01-2009 08:36PM

No it wasn't, a few months living there and the thing just dropped off the wall!

Jet Black · 31-01-2009 08:42PM

My dad got a lend of a van for the weekend. I was 8 and brought all my friends out to 'play' in it. I accidently broke the sliding door through constant opening and closing. It would not open. I jumped out the window and I hid in the wardrobe for 4 hours crying, my dad came up laughing and said I did not break it, just the door got stuck.
Still I was so scared :-(

Loopy · 31-01-2009 08:45PM

I remember knocking around with this young guy when we were small and I gave him this stick one day to play with.

We were messing around with them. He ran off and tripped and the stick went into his eye and he lost his eye:eek: Jesus the guilt I felt...

AckwelFoley · 31-01-2009 08:46PM

I remember i used to secreatly torture our neighbours dog when i was 6.

It was at that time i discovered what an erection was.

Whispered · 31-01-2009 08:48PM

looptheloop wrote: »

I remember knocking around with this young guy when we were small and I gave him this stick one day to play with.

We were messing around with them. He ran off and tripped and the stick went into his eye and he lost his eye:eek: Jesus the guilt I felt...

Really? :eek: You poor thing!

beks101 · 31-01-2009 08:50PM

When I was six I robbed a load of jewellery and a silver Christmas tree bauble from a department store when I was out shopping with my Mum. (In my defence, it was a pretty damn cool bauble and still hangs from the tree each year...)

I don't remember much, except lots of tears and nervous laughter as a sheepish mother headed back into the store and handed them back to a sales assistant.

I also chopped my little sister's finger off with a pair of kitchen scissors when I was six. It wasn't a good age for me...:rolleyes:

Poccington · 31-01-2009 09:01PM

I robbed a packet of Eye Poppers chewing gums out of the local shop when I was about 9. I was convinced that I was going to be found out and arrested

Susannahmia · 31-01-2009 09:04PM

beks101 wrote: »

I also chopped my little sister's finger off with a pair of kitchen scissors when I was six. It wasn't a good age for me...:rolleyes:

:eek:

31-01-2009 09:04PM

My conscience was the last thing to develop.....I honest don't regret my badness before the age of 16.

Actually I just remebered my friends Dad died when I was 13, and I was too self conscious and emotionally awkward to hug her.

Ardscoil Ris · 31-01-2009 09:09PM

All right, I admit it I am Lindberg baby.

javaboy · 31-01-2009 09:13PM

Ardscoil Ris wrote: »

All right, I admit it I am Lindberg baby.

Which would make you almost 80.

Fries-With-That · 31-01-2009 09:14PM

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snyper wrote: »

I remember i used to secreatly torture our neighbours dog when i was 6.

It was at that time i discovered what an erection was.

I just knew you'd be back :P

Ginny · 31-01-2009 09:17PM

We were all playing dress up one day in a friends house, now this friend had like 5 million older sisters and we both dressed up in their communion dresses, I remember we were told to stay away from something that was painted but of course we managed to get paint on the dresses, I can still picture her sister wailing and moaning while I stood there awkwardly and shamefaced in her ruined communion dress.

Ardscoil Ris · 31-01-2009 09:23PM

javaboy wrote: »

Which would make you almost 80.

Yeah so? You young kids today with your music, boards.ie and orgies. Think your so great. Back in my day we didn't ragga muffins like you question everything people said.

Then you people came along and one thing led to another and now women and non white people can vote. Disgusting.

Quackles · 31-01-2009 09:24PM

I remember the day I made my first confession - My friends and I were walking back in to school after lunch, they were climbing on a wall which the rules said you didn't climb on. The unfair part is that I wasn't, I was a very good girl, even then

Anyway, the headmaster caught them, and we all got lines as punishment. I remember being afraid that the priest wouldn't let me make my communion so not confessing to my guilt by association, then hiding in the dining room at home doing the lines so my mammy wouldn't find out I'd been punished. Oh, the shame!!

I also remember being caught writing in one of the library books at school, felt considerable guilt over that. I was a bit older at that stage, 5th or 6th class. At least I had done something to be guilty about!

Oooh, and I remember when my mother was pregnant with my youngest sister, I tied a shoe lace to the handle of a drawer, and mammy tripped on it and fell. I felt awful, thought I'd killed the baby. I still don't think I've admitted to her that it was me

Senna · 31-01-2009 09:26PM

I stole a couple of pound from my mothers purse and bought a stupid catapult and plastic plane thing. I was playing with it in my room when i lost grip of the catapult handle and it came back and bashed me in the eye. It was so painful but i was upstairs on my own and no-one heard my screams. Later on that night my mother noticed my eye was all red and bloodshot, i told her i banged it off a door handle:rolleyes:. Anyway, a few months later i had an eye exam in school and they realised i only had 40% sight in the banged eye. I had to go up to hospital and have an operation for a detached retina, i went the following week as the longer it was left the worse my sight would get. It cost about 10000 punts in the 80's. Thank god we had VHI and it cost mum and dad nothing. But i feel bad about it till now and have never told anyone.

Fizman · 31-01-2009 09:27PM

auditek923 wrote: »

i used to get upset/shame about **** . but now i dont

Funny you should mention that.

When I was a kid, and first came across the art of self-loving, I sometimes felt the same, but for a very strange reason.

I used to think that my deceased grandparents were watching me, so I had to be a bit more 'discreet'.

Made for some very uncomfortable climaxes, let me tell you. :pac:

PurpleBerry · 31-01-2009 09:29PM

Yes!

But, due to their embarrassing nature, I cannot divulge any additional information.

Pretty pointless post this.

(This'll be one of those things I'll still obsess over 20 years later.)

galwayrush · 31-01-2009 09:32PM

I used to feel guilty about everything, but i became a more balanced person once i became a Buddist Catholic. I still have all the guilt but am now able to rise above it.;)

Loopy · 31-01-2009 09:36PM

helena.ryan wrote: »

Really? :eek: You poor thing!

Yep really, I could never look his mother in the eye afterwards (excuse the pun).

They moved off shortly after it happened and would you believe the guy actually died when he was about 9 from some illness...

jiltloop · 31-01-2009 09:38PM

beks101 wrote: »

When I was six I robbed a load of jewellery and a silver Christmas tree bauble from a department store when I was out shopping with my Mum. (In my defence, it was a pretty damn cool bauble and still hangs from the tree each year...)

I don't remember much, except lots of tears and nervous laughter as a sheepish mother headed back into the store and handed them back to a sales assistant.

I also chopped my little sister's finger off with a pair of kitchen scissors when I was six. It wasn't a good age for me...:rolleyes:

If your ma dropped it back to the store how was the xmas bauble hanging on your tree? Did your ma decide it was too nice to give back?

Ann22 · 31-01-2009 09:45PM

When my friend and I were very young we used to play with a wee fella of a similar age who lived beside us. I always thought he was a girl 'cos of his blonde page boy hair cut. He was quite possessive of my friend and sometimes he used to convince her to not let me into her garden to play. To my joy, his family moved to an estate the other end of town.
About 3 yrs later he passed me in school in the corridor and looked at me as if to say hello. I turned my head and looked the other way, secretly delighted with myself, I was 10 by this time. Shortly after this I heard he'd been killed...knocked down by a car after running out from behind the school bus. I've never forgotten that, RIP Thomas.

hellodolly · 31-01-2009 09:47PM

When i was 8 my mam asked me to go up to check on my baby sister in her cot (she was about 7-8 months old at the time). She was standing in her cot wanting to get out. i was too short to pick her out properly so i decided to drag her out by her arm. I obviously hurt her while i dragged her over the bars and she started screaming in pain. i panicked and dropped her back into the cot and ran back downstairs, told mammy she was grand and went outside, leaving the poor thing in agony and nobody knew why...i felt sooo guilty!!!!!!!!!!!!

i got pay-back though. While out in the garden panicking that i was going to get into trouble, i'd picked up a reasonbly big stone and was tossing it up in the air and catching it. i got bored, so i tossed it up high in the air and began to walk away. The stone came back down and connected with the top of my head, nearly knocking me out! i was sick as a dog and had a terrible headache for the rest of the day... deserved i know

p.s. Said baby is due her first child in March. Needless to say, i won't be offering to babysit

beks101 · 31-01-2009 10:18PM

jiltloop wrote: »

If your ma dropped it back to the store how was the xmas bauble hanging on your tree? Did your ma decide it was too nice to give back?

I took the bauble from one of the trees on display. The reaction to all the nicked jewellery was so bad I figured I'd kill the woman if she found anything else...(and as I said, pretty funky bauble...)

Guess I didn't feel that guilty after all

tommmy1979 · 31-01-2009 10:31PM

I don't like this thread it's making me feel guilty about all the naughty things i did when i was little boy

Childhood Guilt

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