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Ready to blush? Just kidding—nobody enjoys making their cheeks burn out of involuntary embarrassment in awkward situations. But this time, we are taking you on an emotional rollercoaster where it may be the only option.

It’s called blast from the past. Remember your 8-year-old self drinking coke in a wine glass, thinking you were as tipsy as auntie Becky at a family reunion barbecue, ready to pass out on the floor and beg for salvation? What about the time you cried for 10 days straight after finding out that gum you swallowed would stay in your stomach forever? What if I told you that you're not the only one? In fact, that little kid with ginger frock from school, your cousin from Wyoming, and I was all secretly doing the same weird things. So, let’s go down this cringe-inducing memory lane were things we all did as kids are laid out on the table.

Pandas, is anyone having a déjà vu moment? Then share your experiences and childhood memories in the comments. Also, scroll down below to see what Krystine Batcho, a professor of nostalgia at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, told Bored Panda about the influence that childhood experiences have on the course of our lives.

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Iván Galarraga
Community Member
6 years ago

Sure, and also running with the finger ready to press the living room lights

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    Francis
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    age 27: stil doing this :D

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    #3

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    European other
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Yep 😉

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    #4

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    What does a Foxxy say?
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I used to draw on my erasers and then stamp them on my skin whilst the pen ink was still wet.

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    #5

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    Hans
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Try out anything. Never be stopped!

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    #6

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    Tee
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I still try till this day!

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    #7

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    Hans
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Imagination is a gift, loosing it is a tragedy.

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    #8

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    European other
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    True how things have changed although I see a lot of kids on bikes

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    #9

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    Ilona
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Those things were brutal

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    #10

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    Hans
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Unless you live in a country where Mac and Cheese aren't a thing.

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    #11

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    Makajha Banjjjak
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I still do that without any reason

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    High Fox
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    "you can hit me!"

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    #13

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    Lisa loves cats
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Still do this when my fan is on!

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    #14

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    Tee
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I still do this. Idk why but hey to each its own.

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    #15

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    Luna Lovegood
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    and mom got freaked out and told you not to...

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    Iván Galarraga
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I used to do that but on a lake full of piranhas, or sharks

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    #17

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    Hans
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    This still works today!

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    #18

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    Iván Galarraga
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    They are usefull to make blowguns too

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    #19

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    Starbelly Eleven
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I do this at my parents' house and I snarl and hiss because my dad's office is right at the top and I know he's sitting there witnessing it. I'm 46.

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    #20

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    MagicalUnicorn
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    i always dreamed of having this one as kid, but mom said it was too expensive...

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    #21

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    Hendra Lim
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    it happened once, and it's scary as f*ck

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    #22

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    Monday
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    At 27 I still cringe when I have to make a phonecall....

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    #23

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    Bookey
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I hated this!! And they'd ask "do you remember me"? How the flipping heck would I remember you?

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    #24

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    Sera the Dragon
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I love those thingies

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    #25

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    Danish Dynomummy
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Also as an adult watching your kid play on those!

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    #26

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    Hendra Lim
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    i still feel so proud when i hide in the bathroom while the lights out, my cousins searching for me, even get in the bathroom but didn't find me at all because of the darkness and me silently dodging their hands movement, because i got adapted to the darkness)

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    #27

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    Danish Dynomummy
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Adult me too

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    #28

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    LOttawa
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I still do that when I go shopping with my teen. It's fun to innocently embarrass her.

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    Nicky OldfieldDesciple
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    The original bored Panda

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    #30

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    Tee
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    😂😂😂

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    #31

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    Lucinda A. Tanji
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    We were told not to do that because apparently the janitors clean the walls

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    #32

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    Danish Dynomummy
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    So true. And the same snacks you had at home tasted 1000 times better at their place!

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    #33

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    Sterling Wible
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I do that with root beer in a beer bottle

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    #34

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    Samantha Lomb
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    " Hey, I'm watching that"- goes right back to sleep

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    #35

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    European other
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Do this as a grown up if I find an interesting pen !

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    Sterling Wible
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I would do every flavor it took so long but it tasted bad.

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    #37

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    Tee
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I was always the rotten egg🥺

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    #38

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    Unhuman_Weirdo
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    god. i did this soooooo many times

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    #39

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    What does a Foxxy say?
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    This is such an old wives tale, so many people still believe this as adults. For those of you that do, it isn’t true.

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    #40

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    Ilona
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I did that once.. they cared. I ended up being so embarrassed about pretending to have drowned that I actually pretended to have drowned

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    #41

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    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited)

    I used to write BOOBLESS, BOOBIES and HELLO on my calculator lol.

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    Ilona
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Hahahahahaha, this is so true

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    #43

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    Gemma Lees
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    We would sing "Constantinople is a very long word, can you spell it?" Same outcome.

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    Francis
    Community Member
    6 years ago (edited)

    stil happens today... but i loose track of my bf :D he says he wants a leash for me, so i don't get lost/wander away :D

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    #45

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    Sterling Wible
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    That’s so true I’m like nope sorry

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    #46

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    SilverFoX
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I'm not gonna go ....

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    #47

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    Farid Adiyanto
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    6 YEAR OLD? i am 39 and still want just to stay home

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    #48

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    Francis
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    magic!

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    #49

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    Danish Dynomummy
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I wanna play with Keanu and Joaquin too!!!

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    #50

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    MagicalUnicorn
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    never occurred to me as a kid, but totally doing it now at work as 34 year old :D

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    #51

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    Guy MacGregor
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Never seen any of this.. What is it ? A coupon dispenser ?

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    #52

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    Patrick McKemie
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Honestly, I just want to know what's going on in this photo.

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    #53

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    Bookey
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    I did this! Maybe that's why my parents fought so much and are separated now.

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    #54

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    doges are kool 12345
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    "COOL STICK THAT I FOUND" So true lol

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    #55

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    LOttawa
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    If everything worked as it should on the first try, then yes you did deserve one.

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    #56

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    Guy MacGregor
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    no. Pinching a hole in the cap is the real budget one

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    #57

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    mummy pig
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    You don't do that now??

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    #58

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    Kiss Army
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    6 years ago

    Or with pizza. I am 47 and have not had milk with pizza since grade school and have NO plans to change that...

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    #59

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    Coleen
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Are you sure you weren't doing that when you typed the description for this pic? XD

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    FatBaby
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    ?

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    #61

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    Kiss Army
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    6 years ago

    My son is 18 and has a stick that he found as a youngster. He named it Sticky and it was many things over the years: light saber, Buffy the Vampire Slayer stick, sword, etc. It sits on a shelf in his room and though he is very unsentimental, that stick, a stuffed bunny named PJ, Funny Bunny and his Winnie The Pooh blanket are not to be messed with.

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    #62

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    Nicky OldfieldDesciple
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    looks like a cross between Mike Wazowski and Arnold Schwarzenegger

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    #63

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    Ilona
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    School buses weren't a thing here. We rode our bikes to school. No matter what the weather was.

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    #64

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    Dippin Dot
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Or when Lego piece meets foot!

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    #65

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    Nia Loves Art
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    You didn’t use a pen till you were 12?

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    #66

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    Patrick McKemie
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Perimant?

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