LogFAQs > #913109049

How common is this? I'm guessing everyone has them, but I don't believe I've ever heard it discussed.

To be more detailed, I'm referring to extremely unimportant, unimpactful things from when you were very young that for no discernible reason, you remember well.

For example, my memory tends to be quite shit and I remember the basics from elementary school and the more important stuff like field trips or the time I smashed my lunchbox over someone's head, but other than that it's gone. However, I remember back in 2nd grade when someone tried the "What are you eating under there?" joke on me and I just kept answering "Under what?" over and over again ruining his punchline. He tried for like 2 or 3 minutes to get me to say "Under where?" and I wasn't being a smartass, I just didn't bite and it was really lame.

Thought about this again tonight and got me thinking about all this. Maybe there was a reason that stuck with me. Maybe it was teaching me how a joke could go wrong when the person you're setting up doesn't play into it? I've made my fair share of jokes that flopped on me since and it's always awful, so maybe that has some sort of connection since I'm usually making wisecracks with friends?

So do you have any weird moments that stuck with you years and years later in life without any clear reason why?
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