People are sharing the most on-brand thing they did as kids and these 23 are mostly terrifying
William Wordsworth said “The child is father of the man” and once you unpick that unlikely biological scenario, it transpires that he meant that you can tell what an adult will be like from what they were like as a child. Jacob Rees-Mogg proves his theory.
If that’s the case, we should steer clear of quite a few of these 23 people. It began with a tweet from writer and illustrator, Mu Jones.
What's the most On Brand™️ story you have from your early childhood.
Mine is when my mom told me not to touch the electric stove when it was red, because that meant it was hot, so I made direct eye contact with her and slapped my hand down on the stove top.
— mu✨ (@prinxeMu) July 8, 2018
And people had plenty to share.
1.
I was told to never pull a plug out of the wall while a lamp was on. I did it anyway b/c I liked the color of the arcing. Until I electrocuted myself and fainted for about 3 seconds.
— meredith (@mnmqueen17) July 8, 2018
MEREDITH
— mu✨ (@prinxeMu) July 8, 2018
What? I’m a sucker for silvers and blues!
— meredith (@mnmqueen17) July 8, 2018
2.
either the one thanksgiving where I spent the entire time under the table eating pretzels or the fact that any time i got a speck of anything on my clothes I demanded to change outfits to the point where it was suspected I just like changing outfits
— annie! (@dancynrew) July 8, 2018
i love this very much
— mu✨ (@prinxeMu) July 8, 2018
i liked to be fancy and reclusive, traits that have carried on in life
— annie! (@dancynrew) July 8, 2018
3.
I won a free book when I was in 1st grade, but chose a 3rd grade book of spooky stories
The first story was about a girl who wore a ribbon around her neck every day, untied it as she was dying, and her head fell off
It scared me so bad that I made my dad return it to the store
— Gulch (@woven_gulch) July 8, 2018
Ok I Googled this and no wonder pic.twitter.com/ZpsbRNWVua
— Gulch (@woven_gulch) July 8, 2018
Oh my God
— mu✨ (@prinxeMu) July 8, 2018
This is good, I actually feel significantly less ridiculous after looking it up
— Gulch (@woven_gulch) July 8, 2018
4.
I think mine is when I started buttering the living room couch. Like not by smearing it, I kept taking tiny fingerfulls and carefully dabbing it on the back of the couch. Tiny little finger-dabs of butter covering the whole back of the couch, greasy cheerful baby luc
— FriendlyTroll (@DeFriendlyTroll) July 8, 2018
And the thing is I KEPT doing it, like every time someones back was turned. They tried keeping it on top of the fridge, but I *still* grabbed it, which scared them bad enough they just kept it on the counter again.
they literally could not keep me from doing this wierd thing.
— FriendlyTroll (@DeFriendlyTroll) July 8, 2018
Luc I'm scared and that was like twenty years ago
— mu✨ (@prinxeMu) July 8, 2018
Oh I was like. A *toddler*??? Like??? Baby me??? Why??
ALSO THE TWIST ENDING is that my parents had no clue I how I got the butter on top of the fridge, but my sister admitted in the last few years that she watched me do it and thought me buttering the coch was hilarious.
— FriendlyTroll (@DeFriendlyTroll) July 8, 2018
5.
I found somebody's den in the park, something they'd put effort into, made of wood with carpet on the inside. I went home and came back to spray the carpet with my mum's hairspray then set it on fire with her lighter. https://t.co/Md9EISncXp
— Limmy's Vines at the Fringe (@DaftLimmy) July 9, 2018
6.
as a tiny child I disagreed with the concept of menus so in restaurants, even though I could read, I'd walk up to people's tables and ask "what are you eating? is it good?" https://t.co/p8fmJfdu8x
— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) July 8, 2018
7.
When I pitched my comics to The Oakland Press at age 6, I got a letter back saying "While we don't have any openings now, we'll keep your work on file… just in case." I went to the library to figure out cartoonist ages to see who was likely to die first so a spot would open up. https://t.co/0LlIdBjdfG
— Ryan Estrada (@ryanestrada) July 9, 2018
8.
Being stung by bees was like a weekly occurrence for child-me and my mum once said 'If you dont want to be stung you need to stop catching them' – I looked her in the eye and just opened up a jar of live bees in the kitchen https://t.co/GHe4TGxgrO
— Lewis Bartlett (@BeesAndBaking) July 9, 2018
9.
Once I tied my babysitter to a chair without her noticing because she was too busy watching MTV and then after she got free she locked herself on the back porch and called all the neighbors because she was scared of me. https://t.co/A6A9QbKt6Z
— Victoria/V.E. Schwab (@veschwab) July 9, 2018
10.
https://twitter.com/stavvers/status/1016026221912698881
11.
I got kicked out of Girlscouts for punching a girl in the face because she called my friend ugly and poor https://t.co/wBOSG3xClQ
— a tulip in a cup (@veryhighlybad) July 8, 2018
12.
I got in trouble exactly one time in elementary school. The teacher sent a note home saying "Maura needs to work on less frequently rolling her eyes during class." https://t.co/alaaTRQGVD
— maura quint (@behindyourback) July 9, 2018