Previously: “The 25 most popular icebreaker questions based on four years of data”
Currently: The Only List of Icebreaker Questions You’ll Ever Need (Not all of which will be used, since some are either/or questions, which are boring.)
Your mission: answer the question in the comments with a good story.
If you don’t have a good story, you are encouraged to make one up.
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Didn’t matter, as long as it involved leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia.

Alive.
Really depends upon when you asked that question in my youth. Lots of things would grab my attention but I guess the one the kind of always stuck around was to be a Pro baseball player.
It does depend on what day/hour the question was asked.
What the . . . ?
Now my avatar looks like Bugs Bunny after drinking the poisoned concoction from the mad scientist.
Buck Rogers in the 21st-1/2 Cheerleader
A Grup, of course. But Captain Kirk ruined it.
After that, all I wanted was to eat, drink, and be Miri.
Trek Bacon to you, sir!
I wanted to be somebody who lived a long way from his family. I fulfilled that aspiration.
Happiness is a loving, caring, close-knit family living in another state.
George Burns.
Outrageously happy
Either a doctor or a fairy princess, depends on my age.
I wanted to be just what I am now…an idle retired rich man.