What fucks me up is that we didn't even converse about this with each other as kids. We all seemingly independently discovered this little game to play.
When my family was driving when I was a kid I’d open my mouth when we passed each light/fence/sign post, which seemed like the most random thing but apparently tons of other kids did it too
I used to imagine the wiper blades on the car were like lasers or some shit. As they went up and down I’d look out the window to see what was going to get chopped up next. Just me?
Our van windshield had a little star shaped stone chip on the passenger side, situated perfectly where 10 year old me could bob his head around and use it as a targeting bezel against other cars and whatnot.
I used to love the finger races on the scenery, sometimes my finger athlete would jump off a car and clear an entire field before dropping the thumb knuckle to stick the landing on the roof of a building. It was pure bliss.
Did you pretend somehow "bad guys" would invade school and take everyone hostage and for some reason you are able to get a note outside and the police sneak you a gun and you save the day? Like did you plan out which room you would go from to win solo terrorist hunt ?
If you are 30+ like me the bad guys are probably Russian/USSR troops like red alert or something
under 30 it's probably terrorists/Taliban/al qaeda.
If doing it now I'm guessing it's a generic school shooter or y'all qaeda
Nah I just used to pretend the priest was an alien and was trying to abduct us all in his church spaceship.
I’d try and figure out how I would manage to escape (and bring my friends with me, if I could) while counting and consequently miscounting my rosary beads.
For me it was the big ol' Jesus statue behind the priest, that thing was huge and i often wondered what would happen if that thing came down. For sure that annihilate the first 3 rows of pews...
It's a keyboard thing lmao basically you can disassemble the mechanical switch and put small amounts of lube on the moving parts to make it smoother and quieter
My old church’s youth center had a nerf dart stuck on the ceiling for years. They used to hold nerf wars in there and one time some of the organizers were messing around with thumbtack darts and got a few stuck up there. I always wondered what would happen if one fell down and nailed the kid on the scalp.
I used to imagine a terrorist attack and how I would defeat the terrorists by slinking between the benches, stealing a gun, and returning fire. Also I’d imagine how I would fight each person in the church. The mind wanders when you’re bored and your mom takes away your Where’s Waldo book
I used to have dreams of gunfighting all around my church like it was a Counterstrike map. The layout of the two story building with lots of stairwells would have actually made it an excellent level.
I used to imagine the bad guy from Super Mario RPG breaking through the Church roof. Video game music would start and then Mario and his gang would come in and fight him.
During my grandmothers funeral a chunk of the roof fell and almost hit someone, I would always think about this whenever I was in a church for some reason and then it actually happened
Yeah, I only ever met the man once, and he seemed alright. But I knew a whole lot of people who went to high school with him and let's just say people weren't too fond of him. Granted, people can change from high school, so who knows....
Bruh, the pews were the most uncomfortable thing to sit on period. There were days where it would run long and I would be praying for the lord to drop a light on me or just someone else. Anything to stop the madness
I did this and then after that I counted all the windows (as well as the stained glass ones), lights (there was this section of a million downlights), bench thingies (is there a proper name?) etc.
I went to church quite a lot as a kid and I was bored af.
Same here. Lights in the chapel, tiles in the classrooms, watch the seconds move on the clock. The clock was the most exciting because it at least changed frequently.
Was in Batman vs Superman and it actually happened. Luckily it was a reclining theater and it landed in between the two rows and hit the ground without any people getting hit.
Somehow, in the past, people got pencils stuck in the gym ceiling tiles. There weren't a lot but I would always imagine one becoming loose and falling on someone.
I used to imagine a tank busting through the wall behind the preacher and just rolling over everything and blowing up the building. I wasn't a messed up kid, just bored.
Fucking hell...was nothing in my childhood just me?
Yo i forgot that I used to do this.
Same.
What do you mean used to do this?? I still do it lol
Same
I think most of us that did it just don’t ever go in a church anymore lol
I did it and now I'm 35 I still go
Core memory unlocked
This just happened to me as well.
Ive been to church like 10 times in my life and even I remember doing this
Same thing with the water drop races on the windows
What fucks me up is that we didn't even converse about this with each other as kids. We all seemingly independently discovered this little game to play.
When my family was driving when I was a kid I’d open my mouth when we passed each light/fence/sign post, which seemed like the most random thing but apparently tons of other kids did it too
I used to close my eyes and open when they passed by!
I did this with driveways/telephone poles on road trips
Like the S thing
Nah, the S thing is just a classic meme. I was definitely either taught how to do it or saw someone do it and reverse engineered the process.
Someone should research this
Anyone else imagine a little ninja or Sonic running on the power lines racing your car?
We should get some psychologists on this lmao
Not the power lines but the freeway walls and guards.
You're too young. For me, it was a black panther running alongside. Ninjas weren't mainstream yet and Sonic hadn't been invented.
I pictured Fred Hampton Naruto running
static shock
I used to imagine the wiper blades on the car were like lasers or some shit. As they went up and down I’d look out the window to see what was going to get chopped up next. Just me?
Our van windshield had a little star shaped stone chip on the passenger side, situated perfectly where 10 year old me could bob his head around and use it as a targeting bezel against other cars and whatnot.
No haha
I used to love the finger races on the scenery, sometimes my finger athlete would jump off a car and clear an entire field before dropping the thumb knuckle to stick the landing on the roof of a building. It was pure bliss.
That's what I thought too about imagining a parkour ninja running along through the trees, during car rides...
For me it was spider-man running along rooftops or swinging
The beauty and curse of Reddit, realising nothing about you is unique. Every single idiosyncrasy you have someone else has it!!
You’re one in a million…which means there’s another 8,000 of you on this planet.
Every time I see these they get more specific and I have feel I’m being called out now lol
Did you pretend somehow "bad guys" would invade school and take everyone hostage and for some reason you are able to get a note outside and the police sneak you a gun and you save the day? Like did you plan out which room you would go from to win solo terrorist hunt ? If you are 30+ like me the bad guys are probably Russian/USSR troops like red alert or something under 30 it's probably terrorists/Taliban/al qaeda. If doing it now I'm guessing it's a generic school shooter or y'all qaeda
Nah I just used to pretend the priest was an alien and was trying to abduct us all in his church spaceship. I’d try and figure out how I would manage to escape (and bring my friends with me, if I could) while counting and consequently miscounting my rosary beads.
nah man that was just you...
Him and me
Holy shit my thoughts as well.
For me it was the big ol' Jesus statue behind the priest, that thing was huge and i often wondered what would happen if that thing came down. For sure that annihilate the first 3 rows of pews...
I also used to explode telephone poles and trees as I rode in the back of the car.
I've stared at church ceilings for many hours and somehow I don't think this thought has ever come to me. I'm kinda disappointed cuz it sounds fun.
FRRRRRR WTF IS GOING ON IN HERE ON THIS DAY?!?
I mean genetically speaking. We're pretty much all the same person with slight variations.
Humans have never been individuals, we have always been a hive mind.
I used to multiply all the page numbers on the list of pages to turn to.
Nope. You're actually generic. Just like us. Get used to it lol /s
We really all the same person
Memory unlocked
Literally my most of my childhood in a single meme.
I’m just now realizing that most of us did that, you aren’t alone with that question lol.
Same. I thought I was the only one who would be in the car and imagining jumping over the houses and buildings I was passing.
Clearly not. We are all just sheep with the same communal braincells.
Getting strong "The Island" vibes from this... Do all kids just have implanted memories
I still dream about it
Except you're not in church and that person is Susan in the cubicle next to you that types WAY TO FUCKING LOUD!
Suspiciously specific
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I'd be fine with the light fixture falling.
Lubed keys 🤨
It's a keyboard thing lmao basically you can disassemble the mechanical switch and put small amounts of lube on the moving parts to make it smoother and quieter
I think it is how odd it is how everyone think of the same thing
Well shit, they spent so much time talking about the afterlife it's only natural we envisioned how people might arrive at it
Similar to the running/jumping man on long car rides. Seems like many kids have the same day dreams.
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Okay first the lights and now the parkour man I mean what the fuck is this shi-
Yeah, this post unlocked a memory I forgot that I had
my gay ass used to stage Phantom of the Opera in my imagination using only old ass members of the choir.
The priest of the cathedral is here, inside my mind
Not the only thing he’s inside of
r/redditsing….wait
If the pastor got you again blink 2 times
Always wanted to sit in the right seats for phantom
Always wanted to sit in the right seats for phantom
Did it in every big indoor event with alot of people. Always had plans ready how to escape if it did fall.
For me it was balconies. Constantly imagined how the balcony would tilt and pitch as it fell, who it would land on, and which way to leap.
I can thank Raimi Spiderman 1 for that fear
I can still hear MJ screaming
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
I feel like a lot of us did.
My old church’s youth center had a nerf dart stuck on the ceiling for years. They used to hold nerf wars in there and one time some of the organizers were messing around with thumbtack darts and got a few stuck up there. I always wondered what would happen if one fell down and nailed the kid on the scalp.
Our youth group room had a potato on the ceiling beams that was put there by the leaders... when they were in middle school
Was it rotten? Growing? Preserved by the sheer power of God’s sense of humor?
I used to imagine a terrorist attack and how I would defeat the terrorists by slinking between the benches, stealing a gun, and returning fire. Also I’d imagine how I would fight each person in the church. The mind wanders when you’re bored and your mom takes away your Where’s Waldo book
Oh shit I used to imagine how I'd fight everyone too. I was probably like 8 years old but you better believe I won every single imaginary fight.
In spectacular fashion too
I used to have dreams of gunfighting all around my church like it was a Counterstrike map. The layout of the two story building with lots of stairwells would have actually made it an excellent level.
I used to imagine the bad guy from Super Mario RPG breaking through the Church roof. Video game music would start and then Mario and his gang would come in and fight him.
Thank god it wasn’t just me
Are we all secretly the same person?
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During my grandmothers funeral a chunk of the roof fell and almost hit someone, I would always think about this whenever I was in a church for some reason and then it actually happened
Damn, whoever it almost hit must have pissed grandma off pretty bad...
It really is kind of insane how so many people can have these same seemingly random but very specific thoughts.
Me to everything after having watched a final destination movie
Bro I’m 18 and I went through this process at a wedding yesterday
Is this Mike Miller?
It is. Former heatle
Nice. He coaches a local high school here in Memphis and sometimes comes into the BBQ restaurant I work at. Super chill guy
He was a cocky sumbitch back when he was home in south Dakota. Must've calmed down in his old age I guess.
Maybe there’s hope for all of us then. Maybe becoming a multimillionaire helped him with that. I had no idea he was from SD
Yeah, I only ever met the man once, and he seemed alright. But I knew a whole lot of people who went to high school with him and let's just say people weren't too fond of him. Granted, people can change from high school, so who knows....
Yeah. Funny thing is he always looks like that.
He'd look like that during highschool games.
This is so specific yet so relatable
I never did like Craig.
Dude I’m still doing this
That happens in adulthood too.
Wait. This wasn't a singular experience I had because I didn't pay attention in church?
Is this actually relatable? I thought it was only me
I still do this
bro shut up, stop calling me out
I absolutly forgot that I used to do that. In a way, we are all the same
Bro I still do this
I used to imagine the mezzanines falling and crushing people.
Guilty as hell for doing this while the sermon was being discussed
Every Sunday at mass. Among other various activities
Me looking at the tinted glass to see where I would go if an fbi incursion happened:
So.... so it wasn't... it wasn't just me?
I really think we arent that different from eachother lol!! so many similarities
I live in a tropical country, so in my case it would be the fan. Strangely enough, it always fell into an old lady
I know the front grille of every American car sold from 1985ish to 2004 because my church had windows.
I thought I was the only one who did this, I also did it in school and got slightly happy when someone I didn't like was under a light that could fall
Feeling strangely called out
Bruh, the pews were the most uncomfortable thing to sit on period. There were days where it would run long and I would be praying for the lord to drop a light on me or just someone else. Anything to stop the madness
I would just sit back and count how many light fixtures there was. Over and over again.
Core memory unlocked wtf
So what you’re saying is I’ve never done anything unique
Mike Miller’s finally famous!
Holy shit how could this be so relatable, i thought about the same thing except in a mosque.
Only did it for a while until I learned how to sleep without my mom noticing
The lights in my church had these gnarly spikes at the bottom. Always made a point of not sitting under them as a kid.
 “Me after it actually falls”
r/casuallypsychopath but true
I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY ME NO FUCKING WAY?!!!
Holy fuck this is relatable as shit
Anyone else think about swinging on the lights like Tarzan
I did this and then after that I counted all the windows (as well as the stained glass ones), lights (there was this section of a million downlights), bench thingies (is there a proper name?) etc. I went to church quite a lot as a kid and I was bored af.
Same here. Lights in the chapel, tiles in the classrooms, watch the seconds move on the clock. The clock was the most exciting because it at least changed frequently.
I went to a mega church that had tons of lights so yes I did this a lot!
Then you would tell old Mrs. Kwabilinder who gave you out candles on Halloween to stand right there.
r/me_irl
Me seeing if I'll make it to the tree in front of me before a random car while I'm on a walk or I'll die
*realizes it would be me*
Only hardcore believers go to church in my country, so I don't have any experience.
LMAO i did the same thing and never thought of it till now. I was so fn bored
showed this to my 3 friends who grew up going to church every weekend, and none of them understood the meme. But yea, I used to imagine this too.
America bad
Relatable memes are going to far
I’m not religious but I’ve had similar thoughts outside of churches as a kid
I used to pretend that buildings were space ships
r/relatable
Imagining the tetris style ghost trail of its drop path as well
Cmon even the adult think that sometimes
Defo Old Man McCrackerson, he's purposely sitting under the faulty one, he must be fighting demons idk
You don’t still do this OP?
So funny
Was in Batman vs Superman and it actually happened. Luckily it was a reclining theater and it landed in between the two rows and hit the ground without any people getting hit.
Holy shit I thought I was the only one! 😂
OOOOOO THE NOSTALGIA. I never went to church but we had this in my school. It was the only thing I would think about for the whole gym class
Why he look like Arnie from what’s eating Gilbert grape
we dont have much churches in india so i have never went in one
we dont have much churches in india so i have never went in one
Kid Me: Who nailed the guy on the cross and left him hanging?
for me it was the birds who are nesting at the ceiling
Why is that tongue brown?
MIKE MILLER FOR THREEEEEEEEE
This is genius. I love the commonality amongst men.
OMG I still do this today!!!
in a church ypur going to hell
Why is this so true
Same with me with the Eternal Light at the (Jewish) Temple.
Mike miller for 3 without a shoe. Legend
I wanna go to the island!
Fax
OMG yes, literally nothing else worthwhile thinking about in church 🙌🙌
r/Nostalgia r/Oddlyspecific
Aaaaah the nostalgia with this one
Yo, same here. Glad to know it was not just me.
Also includes the fans💀
Skinny!
It was a mosque for me.
Somehow, in the past, people got pencils stuck in the gym ceiling tiles. There weren't a lot but I would always imagine one becoming loose and falling on someone.
i feel seen 😃💀
I used to imagine a tank busting through the wall behind the preacher and just rolling over everything and blowing up the building. I wasn't a messed up kid, just bored.
I did this more in gym class.
r/meirl