west-bus
I was between two and three years old at home with my dad on a sunday morning. I was playing with some small wooden blocks while dad was listening to the radio. After some time there came what to me sounded like a strange noise out of the loudspeaker and I asked my dad what it was. He didn't understand what I meant and so I carried on playing. After a minute or so back came this noise and this time I shouted to dad "There, there!". Dad explained to me that it was the audience clapping and because I didn't know what clapping was he explained how and why they made this "noise".
That is my oldest memory. Can you remember what yours is? Then tell us about it!
14 Answers
lambshank
mom
I remember being in a hospital crib with white metal bars. My mom walked out the door leaving me. As the door closed she peered through a window in the door at me. I had a hernia as a small baby and had a surgery. I don't know how old I was but my mother was shocked when I asked her where that memory might have come from.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
Jenn
Was maybe 4 or 5 and I had the flu... I went into my moms room where her hubby or boyfriend told her to get me out of there... I promptly threw up grape kool aid all over thier bed... I still cant drink grape.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
Colleen
I was one year, 8 months old and I can remember hearing on the radio that JFK had been shot. I heard my mother cry out, "Oh, no!" She dropped a plate and began crying. I had no idea what it all meant but I went to her and tried to stop her from crying. I wasn't scared really, just sad because she was sad. She stopped crying and told me she was OK, then went back to doing the dishes.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
jhharlan
The earliest I can remember is hiding behind the chest-of-drawers to put on my underwear because I was told that God was always watching me.....
| 13 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
Never much liked that song about Santa Claws.
Vinny
I can remember being in a 'carriage' (baby stroller today) I can remember being very hot and thirsty, I can remember a big fence and a sign on it but I don't know what it said (obviously) I can remember a metallic spinner on a stick that was stuck into my bedding and the propeller spinning.. The color was metallic purple.. To this day, when I see this color (metallic Purple) in the sun reflecting into my eyes i will get really thirsty..
This is what I can remember as my first..
| 13 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
Flip
I remember playing (Pulling a small wagon) outside a house which we moved from before my 2nd birthday. Problem is, was it real or just something I saw in a picture later in my childhood??
| 13 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
michmar118
Isn't it amazing how you know it's your oldest memory with all the millions or billions of memories we carry!??! The mind is mind-boggling! My oldest memory is of me between 2 and 3 yrs of age. I know this because my Dad died shortly after my 3rd birthday, ironically, in a car accident at age 29.. I remember lying in the enormous back seat of an enormous car, (probably a GM, as my Dad worked at the GM plant in Wisconsin) in about 1965. I "know" my mom was in the passengers seat and my dad was driving along back, country roads. Just felt the gentle heaving and hoeing of the weight of the heavy car as it made it's way over bumps and around curves. No seat belts used then, just rolling around in the backseat like it was a king size bed. It was dark outside, and I remember the most the song that was blaring from the radio. It was "Wendy". To this day I love that song and of course it instantly takes me back. I wish I could remember details of my father, but I can only remember his "presence"in my earliest memories. Have missed him all my life.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
"Whose walking down the streets of the city?
Smiling at everybody she sees.
Everyone knows, it's Wendy!
And Wendy has stormy eyes ... "
Was it that song? That's the one that's playing in my head.
My youngest son enjoys music from the 50's 60's and 70's (but don't tell his buddies). He has made some great CDs for me...never get tired of some of those "oldies".
my mind as Wendy, as a well known girls's name but never researched it. Makes it more authentic, does'nt it???
Ann
It was during World war II. I was about 3 years old. My uncle who was in a wheelchair with MS. was watching me, while everone was gone to tend to the fields. There was a high stone wall around our farm with a door and a big high gate for the horses and wagons. Somehow someone did not latch the door all the way and I went out the door and heard cats screaming. There was a pond in the middle of the village close by our farm and I went to the pond and saw kittens screaming and struggling to survive. I walked in the pond trying to save them, when a neighbor saw me and pulled me out of the pond. The water was already up to my nose and I would have drowned, If my neighbor had not pulled me out.. He also brought the kittens out of the water and I dont know what he did with them. Those days there was no Animal control and most kittens were killed, because of overpopulation. Really sad. But that how it was in those days.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
Bob/PKB
We had company over one day when I was probably 4 . My hair was about as straight and dark brown as hair can get. My younger sister (one year younger) had lighter hair with natural curls, one of which my mother combed on top of sister's head.
The company was going on and on about how cute my sister was with her little curl on top of her head. I could have been an ashtray for all the attention I was receiving.
I took my sister into my parents' bedroom, where she sat at the vanity in front of the big mirror, got the scissors out of the hall drawer and snipped the curl right off her head.
That was a very cruel act of jealousy.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
michmar118: If I remember right, they thought I was awful. I was, then! Now I'm just about the nicest person you will ever meet. Ask anybody! lol
Dollybird
My oldest memory is of my younger sister Iris. I was about 4 yrs old, my sister was crying alot. It was a dark nite, maybe winter, I dont know, The Doctor came in his car, and I can still see him, in my mind, with my little sister in his arms, going towards the door. Tears still come to my eyes when I think of it. Iris, never came back.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
carmaxable
i can remember playing in the sandbox with my cousin and i had mom and dads copper salt and pepper shakers putting sand in them.....wow, huh. i think around that same time i left my tricycle behind the car and my dad didnt see it and broke my bike. you brought back some memories i didnt know i still had.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
melandrupert
I dont know what age I was I think I was about 9 months old I was in quaratine due to whooping chough and measles and I remember seing my Mom behind glass and crying I hate hospitals to this day! I was there for six weeks then I remembered at about two years picking this cat up and putting it in my pram and wheeling it it round the garden I know what you guys are saying it would have to be a cat!
| 13 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
itsmee
This question just has to be my favorite, west-bus.
We left our Stockton, CA house when I was two. I have many memories of when we lived in Stockton. I could go on and on and on.
Grass, a beautiful spring green color with dew drops on the thin stalks. Sun made rainbows.in the dew drops. There was an astounding blue egg. Dad said "It's fragile." The sky was the same color as the egg! The sun was soft and not hot like it would be later in the day. The birds twitter pretty songs.
I hear tell that I became bossy around all eggs. "Be fragile with the eggs!" I warned my cousin.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
