What are the little things disappointed you a kid?

Cee-Jay-Cee

I used to believe that England and America and other countries were up in the sky and that’s why people went in planes to get to them. I was so disappointed when I discovered at around age 9 or 10 that they weren’t. I found this out when we went to Liverpool on the ferry. I remember questioning my dad as to how we were able to sail to England when it was up in the sky and a plane was needed to get there.

Pauliedragon

joeguevara wrote: »

I was absolutely gutted when I was in London for the first time and finding out Argos wasn’t this massive shop with every game under the sun.

Finding out WWF was fake.

Getting most toys and finding out the ads were lies.

Thinking that the blue side of the red and blue rubber erased ink.

Ha. Reminds me of when I was young enough to still think it was real and the Warrior (i was obsessed with him) was put in a coffin by the undertaker and he was "rushed to hospital".
Always sticks in my mind I was inconsolable.

joeguevara

One of my best Childhood memories is getting a blue bmx 2000 off Santa. Quickly mastered wheelies, bunny hop and standing on crossbar(while still holding handlebars). Heard one of the older boys bragging in school that he knew ‘every bmx trick in the book’. The sense of excitement I felt the next time I went to the local library, thinking of this encyclopaedia of how to do bmx tricks turned into crushing disappointment when the librarian cracked up laughing as she explained the phrase to me.

Sgt Hartman

Pauliedragon wrote: »

Ha. Reminds me of when I was young enough to still think it was real and the Warrior (i was obsessed with him) was put in a coffin by the undertaker and he was "rushed to hospital".
Always sticks in my mind I was inconsolable.

I bawled my eyes out when Earthquake "crushed" Jake Roberts' snake Damien in the middle of the ring. In an interview years later Earthquake stated that instead of the snake the bag actually contained women's tights stuffed with hamburger meat.

bitofabind

Samsgirl wrote: »

Not getting a Mr Frosty from Santa

Getting a Mr Frosty from Santa and then my older cousin coming to stay and using ALL the flavoured sachets during a game and sitting and watching in horror as I hadn't had time to play with it myself first :(

The trauma!

Mister Vain

When I got Mortal Kombat 3 instead of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

vriesmays

Howard Jones' second album.

Arghus

AllForIt wrote: »

Myself and my sister were taken to Dublin by my Aunt for a few days. I was disappointed the skyscrapers were't as big as I was expecting. This would be far back as when The Streets of San Francisco was being aired on RTE.

I remember being stunned by the size and hustle and bustle of Dublin when I went there for the first time as a kid. It was mind-boggling to me. How did people find their houses or where they worked? Where was RTE? Don-ney-brook? How did Gay Byrne figure out how to get there to record the Late Late?

There was a huge distinctive radio tower type thing on the outskirts of where I lived and I assumed that the presenters that I heard on the radio had to climb that tower to record their shows, up about 100 feet in the air, totally exposed to the elements, presumably clinging on for dear life. I used to look up their regularly for signs of any of the lads - Gay Bryne, Larry Gogan, Gerry Ryan - hanging out with big headphones on and having a laugh. Never spotted them.

Learning that a time bomb just blew up like a regular bomb, it didn't actually create a rip in the space time continuum that you could use to send people back in time.

Wondering why there were no bulldogs whatsoever involved in British Bulldog.

Archeron

When my brother threw my favourite teddy in the air and it got stuck on the roof. He said the wind would blow it back down and it did, into next doors garden where it was ripped to shreds by their Irish wolfhound. It was stuffed with some sort of probably now banned wispy fluff, so his innards all got caught in the neighbours bushes and were blowing in the wind like something out of a horror film. For weeks.

joeguevara

Mister Vain wrote: »

When I got Mortal Kombat 3 instead of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.

Well, it was when I was 16/17 so not a kid but asked for a ps2 for Christmas. My dad went to get it but the store clerk convinced him that N64 had better graphics and better games. Now, both are savage but when I opened it up Christmas morning it wasn’t a bundle that had games. It was a console by itself. This is mid 90s where shops (including xtravision) didn’t open until about the 29th December, so basically I looked at a grey box for 4 days.

the14thwarrior

when my godfather came and stayed with us for a few weeks from America. I thought he was great, followed him around everywhere. the time came for him to leave and i remember holding his hand tightly at the door and he saying " do you just want to come with me" and I said Yes! I'll get my things.
I came back quick as a light with my plastic sand bucket, spade and my aran cardigan. I can still remember them laughing at me...... and no, he didn't take me with him.

and when i was nearly 4 i was brought to school, big yellow badge with my name on it and brand new uniform. my mother was told to bring me home till next year i was too young. I bawled my eyes out all the way and i clearly remember my father laughing saying something like " we have to have her at home for another year". I don't know what my mother did with my uniform. She must have been in shock. She was 9 months pregnant and probably dying to get rid of me. !

freshpopcorn

the14thwarrior wrote: »

when i was nearly 4 i was brought to school, big yellow badge with my name on it and brand new uniform. my mother was told to bring me home till next year i was too young. I bawled my eyes out all the way and i clearly remember my father laughing saying something like " we have to have her at home for another year". I don't know what my mother did with my uniform. She must have been in shock. She was 9 months pregnant and probably dying to get rid of me. !

That would be a brilliant sob story on the X-Factor.

Hangdogroad

Missing out on seeing ET in the cinema, in fact pretty much every film kids wanted to see in the 80s as we lived miles from the nearest cinema and our parents just brought us once (to the Black Stallion).

whisky_galore

Having only a b&w tv and 2 channels when everyone else had colour and UK channels.

Dakota Dan

freshpopcorn wrote: »

My aunt told me she was bringing me to the circus and Mcdolnalds She brought me to see the tent from the outside and to Supermacs.

What are the things disappointed you a kid?

I know by the way. This is a terrible thread.

So you were a goat in a former life?

Ush1

When I got a Sega mega drive game for my birthday that I thought was a platform spaceship game but turned out to be a pinball game!

Was 50 punts as well.:(

Redneck Reject71

My grandfather worked the fields behind our house. And he would give whoever opened the gate for him a few Pecos. So every time me and my two brothers heard his tractor, we would run and fight to get to the gate first. Often times I ended up being the slowest,heh.

jaxxx

I cried when Godzilla was killed in that horrendously bad 1998 movie with Matthew Broderick.

FanadMan

I was disgusted that there were no smugglers or thieves or spies that I could thwart like in The Famous Five books/tv shows. Was obsessed with those books and was so jealous that they were allowed to do so much and I still had to go to bed while the sun was still up (well, during the summer anyway).

joeguevara

Remember in my grandparents house in Donegal and was told there was Spinach for dinner. Fully convinced I’d grow muscles like Popeye. Especially after being confirmed by my parents. Bitterly disappointed that the only thing that i developed was a noxious gas.

Hannibal_Smith

I didnt get a red glow round me when I ate ready brekk

namenotavailablE

My mother decided to wash my favourite teddy bear but after doing so, left him (and yes, it wasn't an it, it was a he to my 4 year old self) HANGING BY THE EARS up high on the washing line, out of reach. To this day, I can still picture Teddy, alone on the washing line, in presumed agony, with a totally blue sky as the background. I'm now 51...

threetrees

Never having a Girls World head. My buddy even had Super Girls World but the bog standard would've done for me.

tmabr

Feckin school trip to knock. Was expecting a seaside resort and sticks of rock.
Instead got a day of praying and confessing and travel sick on a manky early 80s coach.

friendlyfun

Being a fan of Waterford hurling. Debilitating.

messrs

Been brought to Dublin on the train for the first time by a cousin of my Dads. My mam had me built up telling me how exciting the train would be and how it would be going through fields to get there, the utter disappointment of when the train didn't go down the middle of a field! Said it to mam when i got home and she said that there were fields either side of the track - for 5 year old me wasn't the same thing at all!

gammygils

Ireland not winning The Eurovision
Ireland not qualifying for The World Cup or The Euros

I was a child in The 70's

And in my teens the 1st time I had McDonalds' in Dublin :rolleyes: I was looking forward to it for months. Is that it? A small punnet of skinny chips and a shltty burger! And I was still hungry :mad:

dd973

Finding out there wasn't a black and white world in earlier decades like films and tv portrayed in the 30's, 40's and 50's.

ILoveYourVibes

Lack of giant sweets.

Parents not believing magic is real. They do now though as they are older so i am relieved.

Poochie05

Wanderly Wagon was only about 2ft wide

Noo

Not a little kid but around 13/14 in secondary school. Theres a school trip for one of our subjects to somewhere ****ty and boring but hey it's a whole day off school so whose gonna complain. Only that there was only enough space to bring say 20 out of the 28 students in the class, and only one trip. Names were drawn from a hat. Remaining 8 students had to go to school as normal on the day

What kind of ****ing teacher does that!
Yes I was one of the ones left behind.

razorblunt

How little quick sand has endangered my life.
I lost a shoe in a bog once, which is the closest to it, I guess.

the purple tin

razorblunt wrote: »

How little quick sand has endangered my life.
I lost a shoe in a bog once, which is the closest to it, I guess.

Two things I never understood


1. Why doesn't the sign saying 'danger quicksand!' sink into the quicksand.


2. How on earth do they get the sign out into the middle of the quicksand?

Kevhog1988

getting dropped for a gaa county final at u13 and the local guards son who hadn't kicked a ball all year taking my jersey. it still hurts me to this day as i wasn't a bad little footballer and i gave it up altogether for almost 15 years. Parish politics is happily on the wane

freshpopcorn

How about the school tour.
Somebody got sick on me on the bus.
I got pushed off a raft into the Shannon.(It was UL).
I fell down a hill and got a luno on my head.
I bought a pack of cards that people were swapping at the time. I got a very rare card and gave it away by mistake.
The next day when we were waiting about our tour. People did a special segment on me.

Hangdogroad

joeguevara wrote: »

Remember in my grandparents house in Donegal and was told there was Spinach for dinner. Fully convinced I’d grow muscles like Popeye. Especially after being confirmed by my parents. Bitterly disappointed that the only thing that i developed was a noxious gas.

I remember the letdown at discovering that eating Paxo stuffing doesn't turn you into the Incredible Hulk, like in a tv ad of the time (late 70s)

1o059k7ewrqj3n

When Zig and Zag defected to Channel 4.

partyguinness

theemigrant wrote: »

getting dropped for a gaa county final at u13 and the local guards son who hadn't kicked a ball all year taking my jersey. it still hurts me to this day as i wasn't a bad little footballer and i gave it up altogether for almost 15 years. Parish politics is happily on the wane

I had that. Dropped by the school team for the principal's son who was rubbish. In fact he didnt even tog out for the club he was that crap.

Whereas the same year I was starter (and starring) for the club on the U15, U16, Minor and U16 divisional team and going for county trials. I was also playing U16 soccer but apparently I was not at enough school training sessions. The school was generally relaxed with lads like myself as we were training and playing constantly with nothing to prove with the poxy school team but my place clashed with the principal's son.

It was so pathetically blatant it was actually funny but my old man was livid. Nobody gave a crap about the school team anyway. 'We' lost in the first round and I was delighted.

Our captain actually passed a comment at the coach about me being on the bench which was ignored.

I watched with sheer delight as the defence had a complete nightmare and there I was sitting on the bench loving it. You don't leave a budding Seamus Moynihan on the bench while the defence is falling to pieces. May be over 25 years ago but I get great satisfaction from how pissed off the coach was afterwards as we were beaten by the worst team in history- everytime they went at our defence the scored. Turkey shoot.

****.

julyjane

Realising how TV production works and that the magic door on Bosco wasn't actually magic

skooterblue2

julyjane wrote: »

Realising how TV production works and that the magic door on Bosco wasn't actually magic

Stop saying stuff like that!!! It was magical it was.

Bosco was a real boy and he lived in a box and he was going to grow up when he was 5!!

partyguinness

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Stop saying stuff like that!!! It was magical it was.

Bosco was a real boy and he lived in a box and he was going to grow up when he was 5!!

Look, why do you think his cheeks were so red?

You would too if you had an arm up your arse.

Hoop66

Christmas '73.

What I wanted: A Chopper
What I got: "We're moving to a country 7000 miles away and they don't have TV"

skooterblue2

partyguinness wrote: »

Look, why do you think his cheeks were so red?

You would too if you had an arm up your arse.

Stop stop,
Bosco is happy in his box
he lives with Frank and Maura.
Lets play with marla.
Gregory Grainogue and Fiacra the Frog and rory the rabbit.
Everything is going to be ok!!!
*rocks back and forth*

pablo128

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Stop stop,
Bosco is happy in his box
he lives with Frank and Maura.
Lets play with marla.
Gregory Grainogue and Fiacra the Frog and rory the rabbit.
Everything is going to be ok!!!
*rocks back and forth*

Did you know that one of the presenters on Bosco was whacked out of it on heroin while doing the show? I don't remember his name, but if you watch re runs it's obvious.

skooterblue2

pablo128 wrote: »

Did you know that one of the presenters on Bosco was whacked out of it on heroin while doing the show? I don't remember his name, but if you watch re runs it's obvious.

I doubt they even knew what Heroin was in Dublin back then until the early 1980's

Milly33

Oh id love to head away where the is no TV... I just remember the year i found it out!! The S word (and I dont mean where poop came from).. I was both in awe that my parents could actually afford this stuff, as one year there was a computer and i was like no wow they cost millions.. Made me respect things a little more, but the magic was gone...

the beer revolu

When I spotted the alter boy ringing the bell at mass. Up until then, I thought the bell rang magically when the priest lifted stuff up.
Perhaps, that's when I stopped believing in a god.

skooterblue2

Milly33 wrote: »

Oh id love to head away where the is no TV... I just remember the year i found it out!! The S word (and I dont mean where poop came from).. I was both in awe that my parents could actually afford this stuff, as one year there was a computer and i was like no wow they cost millions.. Made me respect things a little more, but the magic was gone...

There is NO value or wonder now. There is no saving or anything.You can have anything you want now. Kid want to change from Xbox to Playstation and back again with the change of the wind. There is no wonder or handing down heirloom toys (I got a matchbox ambulance with a man which I saved for 40 years before giving to my god child).

I see my sister only giving one or small presents to the children at christmas because they respect them more.

valoren

When I was 4 I asked Santa for a Big Foot Monster Truck. A week before Christmas Day I was rooting around the wardrobes and I found the Bigfoot Box and needless to say I was thrilled when I showed it to my mother. She quickly grabbed it off me and said "Those are Big Foot Biscuits!!". Christmas Day came and Big Foot was under the tree as expected but I was disappointed that my requests to open the Big Foot biscuits went continually unheeded.

spurious

Poochie05 wrote: »

Wanderly Wagon was only about 2ft wide

I never understood why they didn't ask the machine on the side for more buttons. I have an embarrassing almost repressed memory of sending in a letter asking that.