Runaway Kit

[kellychaos]

Brought on by an episode of the "Brady Bunch" in which Bobby, after watching a version of "Cinderella" and realizing his status of a "step", is on the verge of running away. In this heart-warming little drama he was, of course, talked out of it by Carol in some cheesy way. I digress. This brings me to the premise of this thread. Did you attempt to run away as a child? What were the reasons? What was in your runaway kit? The contents of my "runaway kit" consisted of the following stowed in a backpack:

1) Box of Booberry cereal
2) A coupla juice boxes
3) A coupla puddin' cups
4) Underwear
5) Socks
6) Some comic books
7) Toothbrush w/toothpaste

P.S. It was over not getting a puppy a neighbor kid was offereing (We already had a dog) and it lasted a little under two hours after a failed attempt at recruiting another neighbor kid (not puppy-kid). Although he refused my recruitment he did help me polish off the Booberry and juice boxes.

[Mockery]

I ran away from home once when I was a kid. All I brought was a little sandwich bag filled with grapenuts. I had this belief that they were the healthiest food on the planet and that I could live forever off of them.

Needless to say, I didn't make it very far.




:truestory

[kellychaos]

Grape nuts is no way to live your life, kid.

[liquidstatik]

i ran away once but i was little and had to pee about half way down the street. so i went back home.

[Big McLargehuge]

i ran away once but my aunt came and was all "you wanna run away, take my car" and gave me the keys so i went home

[Sacks]

Hmm....

-Balogna Sandwitch
-Some chips of some kind
-Root beer
-Plastic Commando Knife
-5 dollars in dimes and quarters
-A thirst for adventure.

I wasn't really running away for any reason. I decided it was time to take crimefighing into my own hands and run around in the sewer tunnels by my creek pretending I was doing the right thing for the rest of my life. I lasted about 12 hours.

[Archduke Tips]

These are some of the greatest stories of triumph that I have ever heard.

Thankyou, Sacks. You are a champion crime-fighter among men.

[Helm]

just up and left once after a bad argument. Slept at an abandoned building the first night and then at a friend's the next day. my friend talked to my family without me knowing they came around and negotiated my return.

I didn't take anything with me.

[kellychaos]

More adventures please.

[MetalMilitia]

I once ran away so i did not have to go to school, but i didn't take anything with me and was only gone about half an hour before i was found trying to get into my kitchen for some breakfast.
In hindseight better preparation might have afforded me a longer run-away

I was planning to live off a pear tree in my garden :/

[Alive]

Nobody ever hid under a bed running away before? i did plan a midnight barbeque with a neighbor kid when i was like 7 or 8. i put some hotdogs in a plastic bag and we hid them along with some charcoal briquets under a bush. plan was he was gonna knock on my window at exactly midnight and we were going to have this allnighter or something (we slept) never knew what happened to them hotdogs, dont ever think we checked -cats probably got 'em

[Rongi]

whenever i ran away, it consisted of me standing at the porch for at the most 3 minutes, then i'd mosey back in like nothing happened

[Sam]

One time I tried to run away when I was five or six. I first went to my neighbor's house (he was a crackhead) and hung out there for about a half hour. Then I went to a house further down the street and found a boy my age in the backyard. We started playing sword fight until I hit him in the eye with a stick and made him cry. Then his dad came out and yelled at me so I ran home and hid in the back yard until my mom saw me ducking behind the pool.

I was only gone for an hour.

[Evil Robot]

1: Gun
2: $5000 in cash
3: dead hooker in trunk
4: police scanner

[EisigerBiskuit]

I ran away to some odd kids house a few blocks down. I was there for about half the day, then he started pelting me with walnuts.

[DamnthatDavid]

When I was a wee kid, my family went camping. They didn't bring my bike like my mom promised. So I got mad and started yelling at my mom and throwing a fit.
I finally said "I'm going to go walk home and get it" my mom was mad enough at me to say "Fine, go ahead." So I grabbed up some KFC bucket chicken and my Oakland Raiders Coat (Cause, back in elementary school the Raiders where still cool) and walked 13 miles in the homeward direction. I traveled along the side of a highway in a rural trucking area.
The Cops picked me up when I walked into a 7-Eleven near the middle of no-where about 11ish that night. They deposited me back at the camp grounds. It was my first ride in a Police SUV.