'When he stepped on the banana peel, his body flew forward': 20+ Childhood memories that had no business being this funny

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Apr 28, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

We all have that one childhood memory that was so funny it turned into a legend. 

Being a kid is one of the most fun times in life. You wake up in the morning and get to play all day long. It's a time of endless creativity as kids learn how to interact with the world around them and the people in their lives. And, if you've ever interacted with a toddler for more than five minutes, you know that kids get into trouble like it's their job. They're like little whirlwinds of chaos. They find an open marker and start scribbling on the walls and the couch. Time to eat? Nah, it's actually time to smear spaghetti all over their own face and hair. 

These people shared the childhood stories that still make them cry with laughter to this day. Some of them got in big trouble in public, like one kiddo who accidentally knocked over nearly ever clothing rack at a store! Other people shared the times their siblings or grandparents laughed at their crazy antics. Check these great anecdotes out below! 

Up next, these people were underrated geniuses for their creative solutions to everyday problems, like one person who created a perfect shower with just a hose and a bucket with holes in it. 

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    People of Reddit, what happened during your childhood that was so hilarious, even thinking about it today can make you suddenly burst into laughter?
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    Ipadgameisweak My friends and I were hanging out in the hall way of our high school. The floors were made of concrete or something that had been worn smooth over the years. A friend of mine with a smirk dropped the banana peel from his breakfast on the ground. My other friend Steve said, "That doesn't really work in real life you know!" To which he responded, "So go ahead." My friend Steve proceeded to line himself up and then do an extremely cocky arm swinging
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    walk and when he stepped on the banana peel his body flew forward and he was exactly parallel to the ground when he dropped on the floor hard. It was one of the funniest things I've seen in my entire life and we learned the on the right surfaces and banana peel will ruin you
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    chitowntopugetsound I was screaming the house down because I was suddenly completely blind, then my grandma flung open the door and I could see her in her nightgown illuminated in the doorway..Turns out I just was used to city lights, so when I woke up in the middle of the night at her house in rural Wisconsin my eyes didn't adjust quickly enough and my 7 year old repitilain brain let loose. My cousin who was sleeping beside me still reminds me of this incident.
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    Bailthazar When my older sister and I were very young (about 4 and 8 maybe?) we and some neighborhood children were talking about which kind of "Native American" we had in us. My sister sent me to ask my mom. Well, she was in the middle of a conversation with her friends and either I thought she was talking to me or she was just being an but either way the answer I got from her was 'Lesbians'
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    I ran outside and up the sidewalk and yelled "(Sister's name), WE'RE LESBIANS!" My family still laughs about it.
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    Karaethon22 It didn't make me laugh at the time, but as an adult looking back, it cracks me and my entire family up. My grandfather was a wonderful man. He was kind and generous and funny. His brother, my great uncle Gene, was an abusive crook who treated everyone like dirt. They died within a year of each other. At both funerals, seven year old me took the opportunity to sit next to my favorite uncle, Uncle Mel, who I rarely saw due to distance.
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    My grandpa's funeral was very sad. Everyone was teary. But glancing around Uncle Gene's, I noticed no one was crying, not even his wife. "Uncle Mel," I whispered, "why isn't anyone crying?" Trying to be a good Christian, he told me, "Because we're all glad Uncle Gene is in Heaven." "But you cried at Grandpa's funeral." "...Well...we miss Grandpa."
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    Kheprisun I had a big old afro when I was a teenager. One day, my buddy and I were out for a bike ride in some posh neighborhood, and some girl across the street also on a bike is just staring slack-jawed at my hair. She rode right into a telephone pole.
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    Happened herebychance Someone gave me a real Boomerang when I was 11 which was my favorite thing. We lived in a semi rural area so there was plenty of room to throw it around without it getting damaged or it damaging anything. Anyway if you're really skillful with these things apparently you can get them to come back to you. I was not a good throw so I was constantly throwing running and picking it up throwing again.
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    One day the planets aligned I pulled my arm back and flung it as hard as I could, It was a big throw a beautiful throw I watched it go up and circle spinning spinning spinning, It circled perfectly and started heading straight back to me. I was mesmerized, It clocked me right in the nose and knocked me off my feet. I had to walk home covered in blood, mum thought it was hilarious. I don't remember ever throwing it again after that.
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    NoWasExpected When I was little we went to McDonald's my mom told me I could have a normal sized meal because I didn't want to be a little kid and get a happy meal all over again. So I look up and see that they have the 'big and tasty' burger, but I somehow didn't read it at that. When I went to order I exclaimed loudly
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    I WANT THE BIG AND NASTY ONE MOMMY. GIMME THE BIG AND NASTY ONE. The clerk was holding back tears and so was my mother. She then corrected me and I got my big and nasty burger in the end.
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    astrocanyounaut We weren't suppose to watch tv when we got home from school, but both my parents worked so it was a rule that impossible to enforce. So whenever you heard the garage door open, signaling my mother arriving home, you had to turn off the tv and look busy. She was obviously never fooled, because she's not an idiot.
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    At some point this turned into a game where my teenaged brothers would hide from her and it made my mom laugh really hard. They would shove themselves into cabinets, under beds or under desks, etc. My one brother once 'hid' by laying flat on the couch in front of the half wall between the kitchen and family room. She must have heard him because creeped up and peeked over out of his sight line. For some reason
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    she was feeling punchy, so she laid down on top of the half wall and just rolled herself off the wall on top of my brother who had no idea she was there. It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen her do.
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    BillyBumpkin When I was in 8th Grade, my best friend Nate and I each had our first real girlfriends and were really into this making out thing that we had just discovered. Nate's mom was an English teacher at the school and had her own classroom. She was out for the day at a conference, so Nate had the idea to sneak out of lunch and bring our girlfriends up to his mom's empty classroom for some tonsil hockey time. Things go as plan, we bring the girls up to his moms classroom and get to
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    making out in opposite corners of the empty classroom. What we had somehow failed to remember was teachers have substitutes when they're not at school. The door opens and this guy walks in, turns on the lights and is as surprised as we are and yells "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Neither Nate nor myself were used to getting in trouble, and Nate was very caught off guard
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    and responded "ITS OKAY, I'M MY MOMS SON!" He was trying to get across that he was allowed to be there because it was his mom's classroom, but all that came out, repeatedly, was "ITS OKAY, I'M MY MOM'S SON!"
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    GaryNOVA My uncle couldn't find the chocolate syrup in our refrigerator. It was stuck to the back of the milk. So every time he took the milk out to look behind it, the syrup would go right along with it. He started getting so frustrated and we all could see what was happening every time he did it. Now any time something goes missing in the house we ask " did you check the back of the milk?"
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    Edit: There was also the time when grandma lost her marbles. She was just sitting there one day and said "You know what I can't seem to find? Those old marbles I use to have." We all kind of paused and then burst out laughing.
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    MsLambLambs When I was six, my grandpa took me into a large department store to shop for some new clothes. I was utterly bored and uninterested, and did the kid thing. and hid in some clothing racks. Well, one thing led to another, and I ended up knocking over a rack. Would have been bad enough, by itself, but the store had all of their clothes racks lined up just right to create what my immediate family calls "The Great Domino Racks" -
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    every rack in the men's section knocks into another, and another, and another, until the whole section is in ruins. My grandpa was so mad. I'm surprised I'm alive, today. Looking back, I feel like it must have looked like a cartoon: a bunch of racks knocking down, and in the center of it, a scrawny little white girl with gigantic curly hair staring at her grandpa as wide-eyed as a deer. Makes us all laugh, still.
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    AWildBearWow I was helping put siding on a house. Helping as in handing tools and tacks. Up on the ladder was my mom's boyfriend. Great dude, funny, but he had this tiny mahogany hammer I'll never forget. He forgot he left it on top of the ladder, went to move it and guess what came falling? That little hammer. The sound it made when the wooden handle hit the top of his head and made the funniest "doink" sound. I still laugh about it.
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    gigabytestarship My father, who is a very mellow and mature man now, had anger issues into his 30s. He was known to sometimes throw small temper tantrums. When I was 5, we lived in an old mobile home with horrible flooring. After he got off work, my mother asked him to take out the trash. He threw a temper tantrum, stomped and fell through the kitchen floor. My mom laughed her off. He became even
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    madder and she said, "That's what you get for acting like a big baby!" Later that night and even now, he recalls the story and laughed about it. He admits that he was a big baby back then but after that, he worked on his issues and never threw tantrums like that again. It's still hilarious though. My mom laughing at him was just icing on the cake.
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    mlepinos I remember when I discovered that when I wore satin pj's I could slide on satin bedsheets. This was so cool and fun to 10 year old me and I had to call my mum to come and watch me. She comes into the room and I run as fast as I can onto the bed and slide across it and then continue sliding off the bed and landing in the open wardrobe upside down. I was laughing and crying at the same time and I still get teased for it.
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    NefariusMarius When I was about 17 and my brother was 7, I drove him to his theater practice in an old Chevy pickup that I inherited from my great grandfather. Prior to this trip, I had convinced my brother that a car seat rat, named Pepe, lived under the bench seat. I told him this story to discourage him from dropping toys and food on the floor of the truck.
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    Well, as it would happen, my brother dropped some toy he was playing with on this trip, and began he to complain. I told him to reach down anyway and get the toy, to which he promptly refused and claimed that Pepe would bite his fingers if he tried. I told him that Pepe would eat his toy unless he grabbed the toy before it was too late.
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    My brother then slowly reached down, under the truck's bench seat and began screaming louder than I had ever heard him scream before. I began to panic and said "what!? What's wrong!?" And that's when I caught a white blur in my periphery rushing toward my face, which immediately draped over the side of my head. I grabbed the object... and to my absolute horror it was a used pair of my great grandfather's boxers. I immediately began screaming and threw them back at my brother, who continued to sc
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    I demanded that my little brother put them back where he found them, and I never looked under that seat again. I later traded in that truck when I bought my next vehicle-with my great grandfather's used underpants still hiding under the seat. It's someone else's problem now.
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    thewidowgorey It's Christmas Eve mass and none of us want to be there, but it's the 90s and it was that time when mom and dad had to convince themselves and us it was important to go to church. We're in the bad seats because the C&Es have showed up and squished us all out, and one of the nuns has the microphone so she could speak to the children. She asked, "what is a birthday? Do you know what a birthday is?"
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    And my eight year old brother grumbles to himself, "it's another year closer to death." My mom, dad, and I have to work very hard to keep the noise down as we ourselves laughing. Pretty sure that's when my brother realized he was the funny one in the family.
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    camstorys I asked my father once if he could cut the watermelon for me. He was happy to do it, he placed the watermelon on a plate with such confidence. He took a cooking knife and did this ultra-confident swing to cut the watermelon. Instantly, the watermelon was cut in half but so was the plate. We just burst into tears! We laugh so loudly and for a long time... He was so confident about it but just completly forgot to use a wooden cutting board. Wow.
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    Fredsslackss I used to get home from the bus stop about 15-20 minutes before my dad. We had snow piled up almost to the top of our wooden fence (Minnesota, typical) so I decided I wanted to play on it. I ended up slipping and one of the fence posts got caught under my coat and left me dangling. I tried so hard to stand up but couldn't catch any grip. When my dad came home, there was his daughter just hanging out, tired and defeated, patiently waiting for his help.
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    Uhhlaneuh Grandma made pancakes for my little cousin- probably around 6 at the time. Cousin says "what kind of piece pancakes are these?"
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    [deleted] Its 2004 im 10 years old my brother is 6, we are home alone, im watching some boring thing on nat geo, i decide to go to the corner store to buy bacon and eggs to make breakfast, i have a 15 minute discussion w my little bro telling him how he WILL NOT go outside when im gone under NO circumstance, not to answer door, etc, but most importantly to NOT GO OUTSIDE WHILE IM gone. Start making my way to
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    corner store walking (about 6 min walk) halfway notice my brother jogging towards me, im like did i tell you, he says: "can i change the channel its boring". Thinking of that simple momemt always minimally puts smile on my face.
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    jaha7649 10 years old trick or treating in town on Halloween night with two friends. My one friend happy as ever is swinging his candy bag as he crosses the street. It sufdenly bursts from the bottom, scattering his precious candy all over the road. His demeanor immediately changes from joyfulness to extreme terror. My other friend unleashes his max- volume, contagious Joker-like laugh causing me to laugh so hard I collapsed to the ground.
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    Simultaneously a car turns onto the road as if to threaten the possibility of salvaging the candy. Candy explosion friend starts screaming, "HELP ME!" as hes desperately trying to scoop the candy to safety with the full length of his arms. I'm laughing so hard I literally had to crawl to the sidewalk.
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    [deleted] I was making macaroni and cheese once and I hear my mom running and yelling something to my dad who was outside. I turned. around just in time to see her bounce off the screen door. She ran right into it and flew backwards. She had all these smudges on her face and she looked so bewildered .....20 years later and it still cracks me up.
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    slimysallysipsslowly My best friend and I were camping back when we were around 14-15 and we spotted the shadow of this HUGE bug on the ceiling of our tent that freaked us out. So we were laying on our sleeping bags throwing things at the roof of the tent trying to get it to go away and it would fly off and then return shortly. What really freaked us out was when it looked like it was crawling toward a hole that would allow it inside the tent and we did NOT want that happening. This went on for
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    good 10 minutes, and there was lots of girl screaming and hitting the sides of the tent, when suddenly we noticed a tiny moth flying in our tent. It landed on the flashlight we had set up in the tent for light, and its shadow was projected on the tent ceiling...oh my god! The gigantic bug we'd been screaming about for 10 minutes was actually a teeny tiny moth. We both felt so ridiculous! I've never laughed so hard and we still laugh about it to this day
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