29 Awkward Childhood Memories People Can’t Forget

15.

Our house had a microwave that sat closely to the kitchen sink. My mum does this thing where she leaves frozen meat in the sink overnight to defrost. It was morning and there were chicken thighs in the sink, they were pretty much completely thawed. I was microwaving some food while waiting beside the sink. I got bored waiting and caught sight of the chicken in the sink. For some reason, 10 year old me decides to place my hand on the chicken thigh and start groping it in a sexual kind of way. To top it off, I started gyrating my hips and moaning. Next thing you know my mum walks into the kitchen and asks me “What are you doing?”. I freeze, like a deer in headlights and reply “uhhh… I was.. Practicing a dance…. For school…” I still feel like a f*cking idiot till this day. I wonder if my mum remembers it, or if she ever thinks about it, looks at me then shakes her head while I’m not looking.

16.

I was in kindergarten, and had my lunch packed for me every day. Normally, my favorite snack was string cheese. However, when I opened my lunch pack that day, I hysterically declared that string cheese was NOT what I wanted to eat and proceeded to have a full blown melt down, crying and screaming about how much I hated string cheese to the whole classroom.

17.

When I was about three, I pulled the fire alarms at both the Denver and Sea-Tac airports. On the same trip. Many, many fire trucks were involved. My parents, to no one’s surprise, were not amused.

18.

Following some lady out of walmart all the way to her car because I wasn’t paying attention and thought she was my mom, only to find out my mom was literally freaking out inside the store and didn’t know where I went but the lady was kind enough to walk me back inside and find my mom. That shock of fear where you look up and go “That’s not my mom.”

19.

My family and I were in vacation in Florida when I was pretty young. I got in the shower one day and I was like oh cool! A razor! So I shaved an eyebrow off… I got out and realized how stupid it looked and shaved the other one off too.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.