Brickset Bonusball Bonanza - UK draw 13 May 2017

ricecake · May 2017

My first memory is standing outside of my house and watching my dad go to work one day.

TheFew · May 2017

Pooing myself!

princedraven · May 2017

Sitting on the arm of my Mum's chair watching her knitting. Miss you Mum x

redarmy · May 2017

I was about 4..late 70's Omagh,Northern Ireland..height of the troubles..we lived on the outskirts of the barracks where dad was posted at the time..my first vivid memory would have been the house being bombarded with all sorts of crap from over the fence..scary times..

MugenPower · May 2017

Being a kid.

legomatt · May 2017

Pulling my legs up and falling sleep.

Lego_Star · May 2017

I'm not sure but I think maybe it's bathing my new baby brother (supervised by Mum) in a plastic basin on the living room floor. Mostly just holding him, supporting his head whilst squeezing a big sponge, so that the water from the sponge dribbled onto his belly. All the while he was kicking his legs and splashing about. I'd have been nearly 5.

Seemingly part of this same memory is a neighbour visiting and gifting me a two tone grey rotary dial phone to play with. I liked using the rotary to dial; in particular dialling the number 0 which made the longest sound whilst it returned to the starting position. Bizarre, but there you have it. :o)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGESj1Vk-EY
(Tho the wrong colour the sound in this clip is the closest I could find to what I recall, dialling begins about half way through the clip.) LEGO bricks weren't in my life yet, that wasn't until around age 8.

@catwrangler Thanks for this question, my Mum told me something about my 1st Christmas today that I didn't know about and a few other stories besides. :o)

TheMaker37 · May 2017

Going to the beach!

ecmo47 · May 2017

Playing with blocks and my truck on the front porch and it was cold.

Did I make the cut?

catwrangler · May 2017

You did - just one more spot left on the list!

messy · May 2017

Going by bus with my dad to see my new born brother, I not remember him just the bus ride.

Goldchains · May 2017

My parents took a trip to Arkansas when I was 4. I remember sitting in the bed in the hotel room reading Richie Rich comics with my brother(who was 3 at the time).

catwrangler · May 2017

Aaaand it'a a wrap list! Good luck, everybody!

1. Legoboy

2. CCC

3. alldarker

4. Redbullgivesuwind

5. Roskoboy

6. BoomDiggity

7. donutboy

8. monkeyhanger

9. SumoLego

10. sid3windr

11. Shib

12. stlux

13. scoiltreasa

14. caterham7

15. Mexten

16. vizzitor

17. Rainstorm26

18. bandit778

19. Bricklover18

20. norm103

21. masterX244

22. WatfordScottyM

23. teal93mr2

24. TheLegoMaster35

25. RogerKirk

26. iso3200

27. GallardoLU

28. flord

29. Covi

30. Yodalicious

31. iliketoast

32. Bumblepants

33. starwars4ever

34. jmeninno

35. paul_merton

36. TyresOFlaherty

37. cmrt1014

38. Russell844

39. SithLord196

40. Toc13

41. Switchfoot55

42. snowhitie

43. MasterBeefy

44. COOLEGO

45. historyman

46. sukh

47. eggshen

48. carnage717

49. tof

50. ricecake

51. TheFew

52. princedraven

53. redarmy

54. MugenPower

55. legomatt

56. Lego_Star

57. TheMaker37

58. ecmo47

59. messy

monkeyhanger · May 2017

sid3windr said:

Woah, I have no ide... EARLIEST memory :o

I do remember when I was 4 I finally decided to hit back at a bully, I slammed him into the wall pretty hard and of course I got the blame for the whole thing. Then again I'm still quite proud of that moment, but I'm trying to not pass that idea on to my daughter ;-)

Now that the count is in, I can respond to this with a similar experience. While on a weekend break in Bashley Park (a static caravan park complex near Christchurch), some kid twice my size ran in to me on his bike and laughed as I picked myself up. Later that evening he was walking by the outdoor pool fully clothed, to get to the arcade all the kids hung out in while the adults were drinking in the bar, so I seized my opportunity to push him in. He got out, sopping wet and told his dad, who then had a go at my dad for his "out of control" kid.

Of course I got in a lot of trouble for that as I hadn't mentioned the earlier incident to my parents to justify it as retaliation.

SumoLego · May 2017

I love the dramatic spacing.

catwrangler · May 2017

It was even more dramatic until I edited it! Happens every time I post from Text Edit into a field here or in email, but yes, it does rather give the effect of dramatic pauses!

I'm really struck by how many of people's first memories involved hurting themselves/others!

(Edit: Apparently nobody's first memory of pain involved stepping on a Lego brick, but that might be more a parenting memory...)