Pretend? How dare they?

[Ravenbait]

There's an article up at the Beeb about kiddies and their imaginary friends:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9359000/9359360.stm

They have the cheek to call them pretend friends, but that's a point of order not worthy of discussion.

I have AHEM! had a very complex and detailed set of invisible companions, not all of whom even resembled human. Not one of them was a soft toy.

Does anyone else remember their imaginary friends?

Sam

 

[summerdays]

I don't remember mine ... but I do remember my daughters one and she would bring her out to play when she had a friend out - and the friend just completely accepted this imaginary person without a blink of an eye lid and played with her on multiple occasions .

 

[Night Train]

Well, there's you lot for a start, except those I've actually met.

When I was a kid there was the whole crew of my star ship (not all of them were human either), the co driver in my truck and the fireman in my shunting engine.

 

[Ravenbait]

Mine were around all the time, whether or not I was in the company of others. I didn't ever talk about them with anyone, though. They were always quite firm about that. They weren't my age, either. All of them were adult.

Thinking about it, none of them was anything like the typical pretend friend most people seem to have.

Sam

 

[XmisterIS]

I had various imaginary friends. Among them were a family of talking cats, a pixie, a fox and a sentient umbrella. The rest I forget!

 

[Ravenbait]

A sentient umbrella? That's fantastic.

Sam

 

[Bman]

Hmmm I never had any imaginary friends... Does that make me weird!?

I did have an imaginary motorbike tho.

 

[Glow worm]

Does anyone else remember their imaginary friends?

All the religious folk I know have one

 

[gbb]

Our grandson had one...'Douglas'. That in itself is funny, we dont know anyone called Douglas. Douglas..its a slightly odd name nowadays (cue 20 Douglas's telling me it's a common name).
He was only about two when it started and it went on for years. Douglas got blamed for anything and everything. Funniest time was, we took our grandson with us on holiday to Weymouth when he was about 4. We took him on some teacup rides on the seafront. He got off when it finished, we walked up the front hand in hand....and about 200 yards up the road he wailed...' 'Douglas'...we asked him what was wrong...'i've left him on the ride'

At some stage, it dawned on us he didn't mention Douglas anymore..'what happened to Douglas ?'...'oh, he died a while ago' was the reply. All matter of fact...he's got an old head on young shoulders.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I don't remember any imaginary friends. But I did a lot of flying.

 

[Reiki_chick]

I don't remember having imaginary friends as a child, but I do have two imaginary children and an imaginary dog now.

They're totally great... and if I forget about them for a while I don't get Social Services or the RSPCA on my back.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I don't remember having imaginary friends as a child, but I do have two imaginary children and an imaginary dog now.

They're totally great... and if I forget about them for a while I don't get Social Services or the RSPCA on my back.

Hope they are all house trained

 

[Ravenbait]

I don't remember having imaginary friends as a child, but I do have two imaginary children and an imaginary dog now.

They're totally great... and if I forget about them for a while I don't get Social Services or the RSPCA on my back.

You have imaginary kids and a dog?

Do they...

Um.

How does that work? Are they always around? Sometimes around? Are they demanding? Are they your children?

I'm genuinely interested, by the way, not being snide or anything.

Sam

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Our grandson had one...'Douglas'. That in itself is funny, we dont know anyone called Douglas. Douglas..its a slightly odd name nowadays (cue 20 Douglas's telling me it's a common name).

It is common! Hrumph!!

Actually, a lot of kids have difficulty saying my name and often comes out as 'Dugas' or something similar. My favourite though is 'Dustas'.

He was only about two when it started and it went on for years. Douglas got blamed for anything and everything. Funniest time was, we took our grandson with us on holiday to Weymouth when he was about 4. We took him on some teacup rides on the seafront. He got off when it finished, we walked up the front hand in hand....and about 200 yards up the road he wailed...' 'Douglas'...we asked him what was wrong...'i've left him on the ride'
At some stage, it dawned on us he didn't mention Douglas anymore..'what happened to Douglas ?'...'oh, he died a while ago' was the reply. All matter of fact...he's got an old head on young shoulders.

I DIDN'T die, I just got sick of being blamed for everything by that snotty nosed kid!!
I must admit that the teacup ride was rather fun though!

 

[gbb]

It is common! Hrumph!!

There you go..i knew that'd happen

Seriously though, i really really dont think i've ever known a Douglas, Douggie or Doug....wierd innit, how you can go through life and not meet a person with a particular name.