Funny anecdotes from your childhood?

Funny anecdotes from your childhood?
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answer:On a visit to my grandmother’s, she gave us each one cookie before dinner. We went out back to eat them and a chicken flew up and packed my cookie out of my hand and began eating it. I started to cry and ran inside to tell my Mom and grandmother. They, of course, didn’t believe me when I said a chicken took my cookie. I had to take them and show them.
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