Tell something silly (or dumb!) from your newbie days

I always teleport home before I log out, even though I have my preferences set to Log In At Home. I Are Teh Dumb.

Heh. My store is half a kilometer up, tied to the ground by a long long cable (which I need to remake with megaprims sometime). I'd unlocked the floor to extend it, and I was moving vendors around, and I took the floor that I was standing on.

Glad there were no customers in the shop at the time, to see that.

Oh - I took my house just last week, while picking up some boxes I'd opened.

Lol.

This isn't a n00b thing I did, but about two months ago, I bought my first tiny avatar and put it on. When I took it off, I looked like a thalydomide baby because the avatar crusher was still on. It took me about ten minutes to figure out what was causing my avatar to look so weird.

I could not distinguish between bots and real avatars during my first day in SL. I said "Hi" to a few of them; two of which were greeter bots. (>.<

I've given camping bots $Lindens because I felt sorry for someone sitting there so long to earn so little. I didn't know why they never replied, ever, until I read about bots. Lol.

Oh dear me, yes! The clothes!

I arrived on Orientation Island, like everyone else at that time, as a nakid Ruth avatar. Orientation Island was bocked up with noob avas editing their appearance.

I did the best I could with the appearance editor and made myself some very green pants and shirt - it took me most of an evening and it was pretty awful! Then I got on with Orientation and flew to the mainland and set off exploring, just walking and flying as I had not yet discovered the TP or the map.

When I looked at all the other avatars with their beautiful clothes, I could not understand how they made them. I thought the appearnace sliders were all you had and I was obviously very bad at using them.

Worse than that, I saw some other "Llanfairs" and all these Llanfair ladies were obviously from a _very_ good looking family - I felt so ashamed. I felt like Cinderella in rags compared to them - I really did and I scuttled away.

Fortunately by that time I have worked out the search and TP and I searched on "Cinderella" and it threw up a place called "Cinderella's Castle and I TPd to see it. Whilst everything was taking its time to rez around me, I became aware of two very grand avatars just a little way off.

Posh Lady Avatar: Hello, welcome to my castle.
Deira: Hello, I was just exploring, I'm new.
Posh Male Avatar: Well do look around, it's a very good build.
Deira: Thank you.

Then this lady gave me some clothes and shoes - such a pretty little dress in indigo blue from Pixel Dolls

I'll never forget that kindness - I've still got the dress and I still wear it. It's my favourite dress for skating in. I won't part with it and if LL ever lost it from my inventory I would be very upset.

...Then there was another one who gave me some hair - I didn't know what prim hair was then.

The best thing I can do now is try and be as kind as they were. It does make me think how much your first experiences in SL matter - expect I was very lucky.

Normally, when someone writes "Lol", they are smiling at best, but I really did laugh out loud at most of the posts.

In my n00b days I once sat on a plywood box in Caledon, and moved it in edit mode, and another avatar said "Sir, I believe you are sitting on a moving box". Also, Darth Vader costumes.

Oh, gosh. I'm trying to think what the girly equivalent of that might be.

I think I wore the Kool Aid av once and thought it hilarious.

Blinging freebie shoes - I still see those around the grid, too. I was like, "Wow, free shoes?!"

The freebie outfits everyone's seen, too. The leather booty shorts. The short black silk dress. The ballgowns.

I remember once standing in Abranimations with a friend. He TPed another gal there and the gal was really upset. Someone had been stalking her. So we stood there chatting about different ways to make this person leave her alone. I suggested some really strange av, perhaps even of the other gender. I dug through my inventory and found Captain Kangaroo. I tried to drag the folder over to her avi to give it to her, (but hadn't seen it said "No Trans". Suddenly to my shock and horror, I turned into Captain Kangaroo right there. Not knowing what to do, I figured I'd try another avi a little better suited for a female, and drug a water nymph folder on. It didn't work. Now I was Captain Kangaroo in a lovely silky nightgown thing.

When I could stop laughing so hard, I wound up TPing home for "detach all", "remove all clothes" and started from scratch from my "emergency me" folder.

I went to a Star Wars Roleplay sim once dressed as a Jedi Hopeful but SL decided my panties would not be rezzing today after I tp'd in. So I was stood there talking to Darth Vader and R2D2 both of which were having a good time camming up my skirt before telling me that on *their* viewer I was naked under there. Needless to say that I and for that matter Yoda were not pleased. I wasn't a newb then though

dumb? maybe... new... nope LOL (happened within the last 12 months)

banned myself by accident (don't ask, it was embarrassing)
not so much dumb as.. just one of those things people disbelieve... I banned a linden (but he told me to) then no one believed he told me to, and most don't even believe he was banned (should have left him on the ban list LOL)

No wonder he and Mr. Green Jeans were always so close.

A few months after I joined, I took a bunch of building classes, and after a while I branched off into prim-fiddling on my own. For some reason, I got really into hemisphere platforms and hollowed spheres. And then I wanted to connect a few. So I made a cylinder into a tube and walked through it. Only, I had limited space to work in, so my next project was to make the hollow cylinder curve...

Except, I could not figure out how to do that.

Finally, after I'd wrestled with the problem for who knows how long, I got up the courage to ask an instructor after one of my classes. After I managed to explain exactly what I was trying to do, he very kindly suggested rezzing a torus and cutting it like so...

I was so excited when it finally dawned on me... I hope he got as big a smile watching me 'get it' as I do thinking back on it.

All the photos I took during the first two weeks of my Second Life show the back of my head - it took me all that time to figure out I could actually pan around and change the view by using alt keys etc!! Its always one of the first things I teach newbies about now.

got addicted. left for a year. came back.. addicted again.

Ahhh the newbie days. I've been in SL almost 5 yrs now and I still remember all the silly things I did back then. When I first started I spent almost 2 hours on my avatar at orientation Island, I made myself super cute from what there was to work with. I'm rather tall irl so I wanted to be tall in SL as well. Well when I finally got myself all made the way I liked, I went to the welcome area in Ahern and realized I wasn't just tall, I towered over everyone else. I was like amazon Zsu and felt everyone was staring at me. I immediately shortened myself up a bit. I'm still a bit tall but not towering over others.

I remember people would see you were new and just hand you folders upon folders of items. Wings were a big thing back in the day and everyone seemed to wear them. I ended up having about 60 folders full of wings within a few days. A few days after I started, someone gave me a car and I went to it in my inventory and clicked on it and clicked on wear, thinking I would end up sitting in it. Made sense to me at the time. So there I am, standing in the welcome area with a black blocky car on my head and the whole screen was black cuz I had no clue I could cam around, I couldn't figure out how to get this damn car off my head and was too embarassed to ask so I logged off and didn't come back for a week. Some nice person finally helped me remove the car off my head when I decided to try again.

A few weeks after that I got a boat and decided to take a tour of the water. Well as I have never been the captain of a ship I had some difficulties and I ended up landing in someone's house while they were in the midst of something naughty and again I was so embarassed I logged off for another few days. Upon returning, I was still in their house so I ran out as fast as I could .

We had to do a lot of flying back then as well, as teleports weren't like they are today. I guess that's why wings were so popular. If you had to go anywhere, you flew to the red beam. There was also a problem with lag, I don't mean todays lag, I mean severe crippling lag. Even though there were less than 2000 people on at a time, it was laggy as hell. There were many occasions that while flying to your destination, you would end up flying through buildings, houses etc and end up stuck inside walls. That was also embarassing at times and quite frustrating.


Ah the good ole days.

I had sex with a pickled gherkin on my first night and on my second visit I had sex with a jellyfish.
Then I had sex with a rabbit whose head was pasted on top of a balloon.
After that I became an escort. And I got better at choosing my clients. I went for businessmen in real who were having a lunch break. Now I wonder how many board meetings on Friday mornings I performed for ...