[The10spot] 174. TEN childhood memories

[deep_red_bells]

1) My grandmother picking me up from the ground after I fell out of a tree in our front yard. And my complex with heights was born.
2) My mom actually showing up for a birthday party. When I turned seven.
3) Her calling on every other birthday and telling me why she couldn't be there.
4) Asking my grandmother about my dad and her telling me she'd explain it better when I was older.
5) Her explaining it when I was older.
6) My mom and my grandmother fighting every time she showed up.
7) My mom trying to take me away from grandmother when I was ten. I hid under the bed and wouldn't come out. She tried to get her boyfriend to pull me out. I bit him. Suddenly he wasn't so keen on the idea of having a daughter.
8) My teacher explaining to me why my friends kept having to move away. I hate to say it, but I kind of learned not to get so close to the military kids after that.
9) Kicking Eli Parker in the balls for messing with Kenny Douglas in the hallway. (No, I wasn't a violent kid. That was the only time I ever did anything like that. But Parker was a self-entitled dickhead and Kenny was a sweetheart that couldn't help that he weighed 90 pounds dripping wet. I was having a really bad day and he was being a bully. I went off. I never got in trouble for it, probably because he didn't tell anyone.)
10) The day I realized how sick my grandmother really was. She didn't go to work. She always went to work.That's pretty much when my 'childhood' ended.