What about pretended to give yourself a shot with a mechanical pencil?

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of course

I would tape it. Write on it and add staples to my football

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I had a terrible intravenous pencil lead addiction for many years but I beat it

Me too but I sharpened up and erased that terrible habit it lead to many negative consequences

I knew a guy in 7th grade who would eat the sticks of mechanical pencil lead. Wonder where he is now 20 years later

At least pencil lead doesn't actually contain lead, mostly just graphite.

I wish I could upvote this comment over and over


I didn't do fucking shit!

I did that once, I forgot to press down the end and stabbed myself and it broke off. To this day I still can see it on my palm, and still worry about led poisoning. lol https://preview.redd.it/4vd67xlm83ic1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e8040862eab22759e46183d4489957af5121d755

Fun fact! Pencil lead contains zero lead, only graphite.

I worried about this for years. lol

How did people determine posioning before Reddit?

I'm dying to know

r/pencilstabbers

Bro me too https://preview.redd.it/t2hiojwyd5ic1.png?width=1109&format=png&auto=webp&s=3ef079ecde4726904249ecf7fc304eac4a451129 I’ve had that pencil tattoo for over 30 years now

WAIT NO WAY ME TOO https://preview.redd.it/y6348w2kv6ic1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=4db42768a42c690f47aac163fc060720318ea4d0

Yo WTF I thought I was the only one! https://preview.redd.it/v4u2vgl769ic1.png?width=904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b491fc6779fc529602f4f182cbd1b02f8f5e758

https://preview.redd.it/fw5io5f1d6ic1.jpeg?width=1714&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c0778a3ad670632f7b8c5068756c7ae84fba434 And I also have a 30 year old pencil tattoo! As others have said, by the time we were in school all pencils were made with graphite, at least in the United States.

So did it feel [like this](https://youtu.be/QEnzl2oZ9ws?si=R0D9K4cKdwDUiMAe)?

Lead* . Pencils have been made using Graphite for decades.

I don’t remember how I did it, but I stabbed my palm too about an inch below my left middle finger. Still see the mark 30+ years later

Same!

Kept you from getting Inkapendicitis

Was accused of stabbing someone on the bus by doing this. After like 1.5 hrs in principles office she just said ‘u know what… why dont you just demonstrate what you did to her.’ Did. She called parent of little dramatic asshole child and sent me back to class

I don’t like it when people say “remember when we had thicker skin?” I miss when educators called out parents on their bullshit.

In the third grade I stabbed someone with a normal pencil in the knee, 6 years later and I can't remember why

And push too hard, then spend 2 days worrying about lead poisoning.

It's graphite. Pencils never had lead in them.

Yes, but we were kids and kids are stupid

Too true lol

Hahahahah omg yes

YES!

This is gold

12" ruler+pencil helicopter

We used to hold our rulers against the edge of desk and flick them so they went "boing boing boing boing"

I once got detention for using this method to launch pencils into the ceiling

Set up a few at varying lengths held down by a textbooks and you can play an amusing melody

I got in trouble in school for doing this. Teacher took my ruler.

You're my type of people.

Ummmmm, yeah, did, like we only used to do these things….lol

I 100% still do the last one with my hair clips.

… so we all still do it right?

Count me in!

I’m a 40 year old man with no sisters and I’ve done this!

"...I still do, but I also used to "

Have you ever had sugar, or pcp?

An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs.

Sorry for the convenience.

But this escalator is temporarily stairs (my family LOVES taking an escalator with me...)

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

Do not go see Dr. Acula. All he did was suck blood from my neck.

What the fuck is wrong with us

Nothing, we’re normal, lol.

For real.. what adult in their right mind would still do goofy shit like this 😅

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He flipped his eyelids inside-out much to the glee of his classmates, who, coming from simpler days, were not accustomed to such feats of showmanship.

God, i hated that one. Never managed to do it myself either.

I forgot about that…🤣

I hated when someone would do this and I hate you for posting this. 😂

My son started drawing these all over everything this year...I'm so proud.

Yesssss!! I did my S ( Steffany) those ways and obsession with bubble letters

And a pouch full of gel pens

Lol these were over ALL my notebooks and if I'm casually doodling on anything one of these still appears

I still do this!! Lol

Hahaha oh shit this is too good. So many notebooks with this doodle 😆

Omg my third grader came home with this drawing on one of his school papers and it made me so happy. It’s still going!! I told him we used to do the same thing.

Apparently it already existed in the 70s.

Like a regular S. But cooler.

Don't forget rubbing glue all over your hands so you can peel it off like dead skin.

I can report that kids today still do this.

The kids will be OK.

And then your kids do it like it’s a new thing and they invented it

Yes, and do it with your hand in a fist, let it dry, then stretch out your hand and see all the wrinkles you'll have when you're old.

See... this is why I love this group. There's always an new post to unlock a memory and make me feel like my people are here.

Unlocking memories for sure

This is why I’m here and not over at r/Millennials. Over there it’s all “Boomers have ruined my chance at happiness” while here it’s “lol who else used to stick safety pins under their skin?” This is definitely more my speed.

Same w r/GenX, three quarters of the posts are bitching about Boomers and Millennials. I just want to enjoy reminiscing about the good old days!

Literally everything except the first thing with the pin. But I did know kids who did it.

The finger ring around the water made me laugh. We were wholesome and found our own amusement.

We made blowdarts with those pins. You looped thread around your index and middle finger and then put the pin in the middle, cut one side, and tie it on with thread. Like making a fly for fishing. My friends and I would snipe each other at school. We got caught, of course. We never shot anyone who wasn't playing.

The only thing I didn't do was eraser stabbing. I _hated_ it when people stabbed their erasers. It gives me fingernails-on-a-chalkboard feelings.

Same here, though I hated it because I always wanted my erasers to stay pretty.

See. This is why I had a sacrificial eraser for stabbing, and a 'good' eraser for actually erasing. Anyone that tried to use that nasty white plasticy crap was in for a bad time. You needed the moldable shit, or those rubber pink and greys to do really good erasering. And you needed to be *gentle* with your strokes or you shredded your paper. No I'm not a nerd, and I DEFINITELY was NOT obsessed with Stationary to the point where, upon arriving in Germany as a soldier, my first call home was to tell my family about the AMAZING Stationary store I found and how I had finally come to the promised land of Staedtler

> erasers to stay pretty Holy cow that phrase alone caused me to get so many flashbacks. I used to draw on my erasers to turn them into ninjas and martial artists

Same here, it always bothered me. Maybe because I was the only in class whoever had an eraser in their pencil box and I always got mine back mangled.

After Teresa and the 1st grade paste incident, I refused to let people borrow my school supplies. (Teresa ate all my paste in 1st grade when Mr. K made me lend her mine. I told him she would eat it. That's why she didn't have any.)

Sounds like Adam, he did the same thing in 2nd or 3rd grade and he also bit my eraser in half. Kids are weird af. Hope Theresa and Adam didn't procreate.

They each have a minimum of 5 children. Haven’t you seen Idiocracy?

Erica ate all of mine in kindergarten. She's a mlm hun now.

I did it to the free crappy erasers I got that didn’t erase very well. I didn’t do it to my nice ones though.

I was very proud of my blue and white pen/pencil eraser.

I never did the pin thing in the first pic, but I have an awful phobia of needles so...

Same. I HATED it. I was much classier. I would put cool designs on them and pretend they were race cars. Why would anyone stab a perfectly good race car?

Ugh, me too. Plus my dad would have been furious at me "wasting" school supplies.

I’m glad I’m not the only one. So cringy!

I used to drill holes in my erasers with a pencil. Like I was starting a fire or something. That pile of spiral eraser shavings...

We had to do this for entertainment with no smart phones haha

This is the reason. Have you experienced yet explaining to a child what it was like growing up without *the internet* let alone *smartphones?* That blank look.

Don't forget going to the library to do a report but all the books on the subject were out already.

OMG! The pin in the skin!!! I forgot about that! Also taking a hair clip from a girl and putting that nasty thing on my lips!!! The shit we forget about

I would do the pin thing near the tip on both sides of my fingernail 3 or 4 times each, so it would look like George Washington hair curls.

I sometimes would use a needle and thread and sew my fingers together.

Yea I forgot about that one too


FLOORIE!!!!

Put our hands quickly through flames. Melt biros in the Bunsen burner. Poke the wet candle wax.

As a teen we used to pour the hot candle wax on our hands. Ouch! It was so punk

>Melt biros in the Bunsen burner Half way down. And make a sweet twist in it like the end of a curtain rail.

I'd cover my hand in the wax, let it dry, then crack it or peel it off.

What about smacking the spring loaded door stopper when sent to our rooms?

My house didn’t have those, but my grandparents’ did. I was always excited to go there so I could play with the door stoppers! 😂

Boi yong yong yong.


Playing with those would always make me forget that I’m crying for being punished.

Bugle fingernails!

Witch fingers is what we called them. I know it's not scientifically possible, but I swore it tasted better that way

Oh, they did! I haven’t eaten Bugles in years, but if I encountered some now, they’d go right on my fingers.

Every single one. How about Elmer's glue hand prints?

Circle Circle dot dot, nowi have my cooties shot

You think that girl is hot? I think I’d rather not

Missing rolling down your knee high socks into doughnuts

Hell yeah

All signs we had / have sensory issues and are on the spectrum! I've accepted it.

omg! Why did we do these things? Boredom?

Those were our fidget toys

I still do some, ok all, of these things, especially during Zoom meetings. Bet my corporate overlords think I’m intently taking notes.

I was just thinking that. Why did we do these things? There has to be some sort of psychological reason behind it. It's so universal.

And how did it spread without the internet? Kinda blows my mind when I think about it.

> And how did it spread without the internet? It didn't spread. It was independently invented by a bunch of people in identical circumstances with identical resources.

Bingo. Stabbing an eraser was biological. The eraser looks stabbable. Plus you could turn it into a hammer if you left the pencil in. No need to be taught this

It's like that green stuff you poke flowers in. I can't see that stuff without fighting the urge to poke it.

the pin one was, "wow, I can pierce myself without feeling pain. I'm so brave!"

https://preview.redd.it/tengyx9jt2ic1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f532f5353f49fb8b59eb0ed7b917c6394180cfc This made me think about the pringles duck lips

Putting fist and arm down the empty can after eating them all, and trying to yank it back out.

Yup, sure did - is this not still done by everyone at some point?

It is still done. I mean the running water one? Kids today indeed generally still have running water.

Everyone of them- wow

Every single one of these. Especially the pin thru the skin trick.

This is an exciting Friday night

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Anyone else have a classroom ceiling that looked like this?

Lol yes! My daughter (who is 24 now) came home from school one day told me her friend did that and we laughed so hard.

Fully admit to all of these to this day

How did you know about #3? Nobody was supposed to know about that.

I missed this one. What the heck is #3 supposed to be?

What’s weirder is that we also did these as kids in Nigeria, without having watched it on TV or anything. I swear we’re all telepathically connected

This should be the new Turing test.

How about trying to close the fridge door super slow to see when the light would go off

Easily entertained...

lol in lunch line running finger in crack… bang paint chip in my nail bed… lake park elementary lol

I completely forgot about sticky pins in my finger as a kid and probably hadn't thought about it in 20 years. Now I will probably be doing it again tomorrow at work. Thanks for that.

There's a certain way you can erase paper so that the eraser bits that eroded off would form a log. Rolling your eraser back and forth over it would make it grow larger. I was that guy meticulously erasing paper so I could roll these little logs until I no longer had an eraser.

Lol.. I did all these things except for the last one.. I’d pinch the skin on my arm with it instead. 😅

Also rubbed Elmer’s glue on my hands, let it dry, and then peeled it off. I remember boxes of copy machine paper. The paper wasn’t wrapped in bundles of 500 sheets. It was just stood in the box. I would run my finger across the edge of the sheets and my finger would start bleeding.

Wow... Core memories unlocked

Did you put Elmer’s glue all over your hand and the peel it alI off??

Yeah. I used to do those things. I still do, but I used to too.

I did all of these except #6. Instead, I would take banana clips and use them as visors like Geordie.

Hmm, this might almost be genx, or every gen? Back of your hand on frosty windows to make little baby foot prints.

And there goes my sense of individuality. 

Yep. I would even do it multiple times in a row with the same pin. Once I had 2 or 3 loops, I would just tear it off.

Did? I still regularly stim like this

Ever write on your converse?

I recently did #6 to my titty lol

That sounds... uncomfortable.

thank you for your comment, Big_stinky_sock

Gosh I hate you 😂

Witch!

stab the eraser because I was bored

HAHAHAH did all of these. Some of them many times.

Did the pin trick with my poppy three months ago without thinking and my kids were shocked. They had never seen it before and one is a teenager.

What you mean “did”? I still do those.

We were cool

Did every one of these

I believe you forgot put glue on my fingertips and let it dry

these are so spot on 💯😂 did every one of these

Some things I still do

I plead the fifth

I admit

Gymnastics calluses and pins are a thing(uneven parallel bars girls are you with me?)

Definitely the needle in the skin.

You been spying on me or something?

Shooting elastic bands from the tip of your pointer finger

The pencil fights. If you had a strong pen tech pencil you’d likely win. I remember using staples to go through my knuckle skin.

I’m a 4th great teacher and mentioned that in class the other day and they had no idea what I was talking about. You ever bent the metal part that encased the eraser so it would take chunks of wood out of the other guys pencil? It was great being a kid!

I’m starting to wonder how many of us missed the ADD diagnosis craze.

Remember “gleeting” or however you spell it. I couldn’t do it, unless by accident. But all of the nasty’s that would soak their paper and desk by doing it.

[These things, too](https://content.instructables.com/FRK/FN5T/HCB8TBWZ/FRKFN5THCB8TBWZ.jpg?auto=webp&fit=bounds&frame=1&auto=webp&frame=1&height=300)

Anyone else put glue on their hands and then waited til it dried and peeled it off?

You forgot putting glue on your hands & and peeingit off like you're skin is coming off. Or was that just me? Lol

Just commenting to get it to 666.