Quirks, volume two
Because I have pretty much no real news to report on, I thought it might be time for another installment of quirks.! Today’s bout of quirks was brought on from a conversation the lunch ladies and I were having after lunch today. The hallway we were walking down smelled of that clean plasticky/locker first day of school scent, which I love (kind of like a brand new plastic pencil box stocked with fresh pencils and paste and such…), which then led to the topic of paste. Now, I was never a paste-eater, but I have been definitely guilty of having a taste.
Today’s quirks ~ things that shouldn’t have been put near my mouth but which I have tasted anyway:
- Elmer’s paste. The kind with the bright orange lid and the white spreader handle/stick. I was in first grade in Mrs. Bitsko’s class (where we went for Reading and assorted afternoon craft times). What? It smells minty. And it tastes kind of like it smells, which isn’t bad.
- Play-Doh. Salty, kind of strange plasticky taste. It looked pretty being formed into a “cake.” I was probably 4 or 5.
- Modeling clay. The kind that doesn’t harden even when you leave it out. Very plasticky. Prolly did this around the same time as the Play Doh tasting.
- Silly Putty. Not much to taste, fun texture to chew on. Same time as the other squishy play dough sampling, most likely.
- Hi-Bounce rubber balls. Lizzie may remember this: most of our high-bounce balls, which were usually some unusually brightly colored production, all had little divots and crevices in them because I liked to bite on them. I don’t think I swallowed the bits, just liked to bite them off.
- Liz’s apple dolls. I remember she made these crafty dolls with heads made of shriveled apples. I wasn’t actually hungry, just felt like chewing on them, because they were apples, you know? I was probably 8 or so.
- Purifying Pumpkin Face Mask from Bath & Body Works. It smells just like a pumpkin pie. I did this bit of tasting (very, very NOT tasty) over the last year or so.
I imagine this quirk of mine is going to stick with me for a lifetime through. Because of the curiosity. And stupidity. But fun to share! Come on, you know you want to share!
Oh! And I’m looking for…
I’ve been on the search for the following. Any help?
- Have you seen the recent JC Penney ads on the telly for Valentine’s Day? There’s this really gorgeous cover version of “Nena’s 99 Red Balloons.” I have no idea who does this version or where I might procure a copy, but if you know, I’d be ever grateful!
- I’ve been scouting about for charms and miniature figurines of Alice & co…I have found one place with Alice charms, but the price of each $17 each) is a mite higher than I was hoping for. Have you got any leads for good resources? I’m hoping to keep it around the $5 per piece range, give or take a few bucks.
- I’m also looking for mini garden gnomes. I found some charms at eBay and bought them today, but little plastic or resin garden gnomes (like 2″ tall or less) would be super, if any of you have seen them!
Thanks in advance! For sharing and all….
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I love eBay.
OH and I didn’t even mention the tasting thing!! EW, CHILD! Is pretty much all I have to say.
I used to enjoy licking 9volt batteries when I was a youngster.
i remember eating chapstick all the time. i think i just liked the sensation of biting through the stick with my teeth. here is a funny one though, my parents have a lot of land where i grew up and my dad would always put out salt licks, basically big blocks of salt, for the deer. these didnt interest me at all, but one year he bought a mineral lick, which was brown and looked like the biggest chunk of chocolate i had ever seen. i remember asking him repeatedly if it was indeed chocolate and he kept assuring me that it was not. well, one day i had to go and make sure. needless to say it tasted awful! like cleaning products or something. i also remember digging around in the cabinets as a kid and finding the bakers chocolate, being very excited at finding such a large stash of chocolate i didnt want to tip my hand, so i would sneak a square at a time. i remember thinking that it was pretty bitter, but i didnt care, it was secret chocolate. then one day i was in the kitchen while my mom happened to be baking something, and she pulled out the practically empty box and remarked on why it was all gone. i said, huh, i dont know. what is that? and she told me it was for baking and not eating… i didnt eat anymore, but i do attribute that experience to my love of dark chocolate. the darker and more bitter the better i say!
You know those little thingies parents put on their kitchen cabinets to keep kids out of them? The little plastic white cabinet-holder thingies? Kids like you and Haeshu are the reason they had to invent those things!! LOL.
personally i like the goldfinger version of 99 red balloons…haven’t seen the commercial though, so have no idea who did that one. personally, i’m a pencil-chewer. and erasers. and chopsticks and toothpicks. among other things. i don’t ingest any of this stuff, but i do like a good chew!
Glad to hear I wasn’t the only one that tried 9 volt batteries! LOL I knew I would get shocked, but couldn’t help myself.BTW, here’s a link about that JC Penney’s song:http://adtunes.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10486&hl=99+red+balloons
You’re hilarious….I love the one about tasting the apple doll. LOL.I remember having to make one of those in 4th grade. It was hideous! I just heard that commercial today too, always loved that song it brings back some fun memories …my best friend in highschool started slam dancing to it as a joke while attending a university mixer while we were foreign exchange students in Berlin. She was just a tiny little thing, the whole room started going off and nearly trampled us! Good times! 😉
i chewed on silly putty when it was brand new (i was a smart kid sometimes). i licked 9volts too. i have tasted almost all of the burts bees products because i watched the training video where they talk about the ingredients being edible. they don’t taste as good as they smell. i’ve licked many a rock in geology classes =) you know those pencils that have a bunch of plastic things that hold a sharp lead and they stack inside the pencil? you take one off when it gets dull and stick it on the back? i used to buy these at the office when i was in elementary school…along with scented pencils. there is a little plastic piece at the very end… if you take it off it is very soft and bendy… i used to chew them like gum when the pencil lead would run out. i’m sure there is more…
oh yea…and vanilla extract doesn’t taste very good though it smells heavenly… i just wouldn’t listen to my mom.
I laughed so hard while reading your post. I too have tasted Play -Doh. I used to wear this lip gloss when I was young that kind of smelled like apples & I constantly licked it off my lips. It was kind of yummy.
Tsk..tsk..tsk…putting those things near your mouth! I’m sure I’ve been guilty of atleast tasting the mudpies that I made as a little girl….hehehehe
I used to sit on the picnic table in our backyard with our dog Flo and eat dog biscuits with her (I can not believe I just admitted that!!). I can not use lip gloss, I keep reapplying it since I like it off and eventually it gives me a stomach ache.
I am so happy there is someout there who loves gnomes besides me!!
I’m with you on the play-doh!
I remember you eating my apple dolls! I came in to our bedroom to find a hole in her face. And when I asked you about it, you cleverly convinced me to try it too because it was yummy! And I think you were a little older than 8 too, as I was in second grade when I made them… 😉 And those rubber high bounce balls… It was a ritual that every time we got a new one, you had to take a bite out of it (when I wasn’t looking). Then, when you bounced the ball, there would be all these rubbery bits floating around since the seal had been broken. Ha ha! 🙂 I ate cat food once… Friskies.
Oh my gosh- your mom had her hands full with you! ;)The only thing I chew on are my own lips. Gives me a headache and makes my lips hurt but I can’t seem to stop doing it. Me Stupid girl.
Hey girl, man are you on a search! I have tried elmers glue and black tar. Diden’t like eather one! LOL!
I cannot believe you guys licked 9volt batteries!! I can’t think of eating anything strange. However, even now I drink pickle juice which my husband thinks is pretty rank. As a kid U use to bend paper clips to where they would fit neatly across my teeth and pretend I had braces. Of course, several years later I did actually get braces and then wondered why in the world I wanted them so badly when I was younger…
I confess to trying chalk as a little one.
oh my gosh guitarangel1979, i totally did the paperclip retainer thing too! i had forgotten that. it was really a stupid thing to do as those sharp ends of the paperclips would sometimes cut up the inside of my mouth.
Haha! I love that you all shared! (And Bekah, you kick royal arse with finding all those treasures, thank you MUCH!). I did the paperclip retainer thing too! Really silly. I was hating myself for a few weeks when I had the real retainer (the kind that was cemented in, woe). =)